Kakuro

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My recent fixation is Kakuro. It is the second most popular newspaper game after Sudoku in Japan (I read it somewhere. Don’t quote me on it :) and is published in many newspapers and magazines around the globe. TOI also publishes it every day along with ‘Sudoku’ and ‘Loop the Loop’.

I chanced upon ‘Loop the loop’ while I was idling away my time at home. I found it interesting but unfortunately it is very easy to solve. Another interesting puzzle published alongside was Kakuro. I was bought.

I find it more interesting than Sudoku (not that I am good at sudoku).

As you can see, the numbers mentioned indicate the sum total of the numbers below (or to right/left) them. A number can’t be repeated for a particular sum. For ex, 16 can not be equal to 8+8. It should either be 9+7 or 7+9.