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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 9/May/2011


 
  
 7 
 
  
 25 
  
 31 
  
 7 
 
   
  6
 6 
       
  15
  
           
  10
  
       
  
 9 
  
 15 
   
  30
 9 
       
 
  15
  
         
 
  21
  
         
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!
used orphans
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No orphans needed
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tried again, Shabbir is right
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Yes, no orphans
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5:11 using orphans
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5:03 no orphans
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Fairly straightforward without orphans.
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no orphans - key is 31D
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627, no orphans
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15:35
no orphans, but 1 long string
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31D has 4 squares with a maximum of 5 ...
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big john, that is exactly the answer - 5+4+3+2=14, leaving a total of 17 for the other two squares. So, 1 is eliminated as a possibility for all of 31D, C,H,M,T share the possibility set 2,3,4,5 and O,Y = 8,9. The rest flows easily.
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... sorry, I am also assuming you have already spotted the quad 3s in the top half of the puzzle...
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thanks, kakuroaddict. I'm still trying to figure out how the 3 thing goes, but the 1's in the top 3 rows fall in place this time thru!
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I think I'll need your explanation of quad 3's, ka.
I do know that the last of 6A must =3 cuz the 3's in the 2nd & 3rd rows go in the middle columns
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you must've meant that the pair of 3's could only go in those 4 squares - sometimes it takes a while!
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I'm not sure I didn't have to use a chain beginning with 1 of the 3's to finish the puzzle ...
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I'm rambling - the 1's at the top make finishing easy without chains
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big John, I think you've got it...

yes, I meant that the 3s in the 2nd two rows could only intersect with the two long columns (probably got my terminology a bit wrong).

This square of 3s compels D=3 (ergo, I=4). It then follows that C=2 (because 31D cannot contain a 1), B=1, E=1 More...
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2:36
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Straightforward, 2018
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