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How to play Kakuro
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 23/May/2019


   
  
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 39 
  
 22 
  
 5 
  
 8 
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 5 
  6
 3 
   
  
 10 
 
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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!
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Possibilities, orphans and chains.
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+p+o
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Very obvious nada.
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Used 2 or 3 possibilities
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Obvious nada?!
Do tell details .....
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Stuck, even with orphans, certainly not an obvious nada to me.
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Surprisingly easy with orphans:

In the bottom two rows, 5D, 3D and the orphan account for all of the 1's and 2's.

So 22D has a 1 or 2 in the top two rows. That, plus 4D, 5D and the orphan, account for all 1's and 2's in those top two rows. So 8D is {3,5}.

Now 3's cross More...
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Still waiting for the details mike!..
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+o-p. I didn't think orphans made it easy. They set up quite a few squares but there were a lot of ways to go. I keyed on the 9 in 39D and made the right choice. Even then I made a mistake and had to go back a number of moves.
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Thanks Willo, on a retry your point about counting 1s & 2s solved it for me, with orphans.

Paul - I found orphans allowed the sequence that Willo described & allowed solving logically.
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