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Kakuro is similar to both sudoku and traditional crossword games.
Like a Crossword
Similar to crosswords, Kakuro has clues both across and down. When you put numbers in the vacant squares, the sum must equal the given clues. This is why the game is sometimes called 'cross sums'.
Like a Sudoku
Just like a sudoku, you cannot have the same number in a row or column. If a row is broken into 2 areas by a clue, then you can have the same number occuring once in each of the separate areas.
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Hard Kakuro for 8/August/2017


   
  
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Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
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Talk about anything and everything, but nice to each other - you don't have to agree, but this is not the place for personal attacks. As Sir Paul McCartney said: 'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird' (longer explanation). Enjoy!
+p +o stuck.
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+p+o +c
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John + 1

Paul, try using chains. It is not difficult - you just fill in all the possibilities, then try a number in a cell and follow through with the consequences. If that leads to a contradiction, you know that the original number that you filled in was incorrect. Then you just press 'Undo' repeatedly until you get back to that point.
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+p -o, chains. Orphans wouldn't have helped all that much.
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+p-o, brutal
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-o-p but too many tries to call nada. 26A is the key.
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Mike + 1. I figures I would just try combos. Looked like it would be easier than entering p and calculating o. Took about three tries. 26A was key.
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nada by analysing the combinations ...
there has to be a 34 in 26A
so: either the top four of 21D or 23D must have 1234
so either, the bottom two of 21D are 56, or bottom two 23D are 5678. plus need another one of 5678 adjacent.
can't get these numbers to work with bottom two 23D as More...
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Actually my thought process also involved the 3s and 4s. I just did it by entering the combos. As usual Aspie sees things on a higher level than most of us, me anyway.
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Aspie: I don't see why you say there has to be a 34 in 26A.
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Aspie: in fact, if you start with orphans, it's pretty easy to prove rather quickly that 26A has no 4. Is there a typo in your comment?
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With orphans only:

1) Fill in E,J,Q,U,V,Z

2) N can't be 4, so first, third and fourth rows all have 4's that must land in 21D, 23D, 10D. So 10D is 1/4/5, with 5 in I.

3) From 2), 26A has no 4's. Therefore it must have a 3.

4) There are (in view of 2)) at most More...
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3:53
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willo - the 26A combo list says it, all have one of 34 except 12689 and 12689 can't exist.

when I wrote '34', I meant it to mean 'one of 34 but don't know which at this stage'
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hard puzzle to solve, even with Ps, well constructed
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Aspie: Thanks for clarifying. I'm sorry for not thinking harder about what you meant.
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Forgot timer
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Orphans and a lot of work, thanks Willo & Aspie, 2021.
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