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Saturday Special – Extra Groups Kakuro

By h3lix | Published: August 2, 2008
Rules: Solve the puzzle so that the numbers in every horizontal and vertical region add up to the sum indicated for that region. Numbers CAN NOT be repeated in any region. Additional Rule: The yellow groups of 3×3 blocks contain the numbers 1-9 once and only once.  It took me about 10 hours spread out over a week to design this one.  I tried to keep the difficulty and variety high.  Enjoy! Size: 14×14  Difficulty: INSANE
(click to download or right-click to save the image!)

Medium Hard Kakuro Puzzles Book


To see the solution to this puzzle click here
Visual Walkthrough solution – final
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10 Comments

  1. wellbeback
    Posted August 3, 2008 at 9:36 pm | Permalink

    Thanks h3lix – great puzzle. I especially liked having to discover and then apply the new techniques necessary to solve it.

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  2. udosuk
    Posted August 4, 2008 at 5:15 pm | Permalink

    Like wellbeback said, great one. But since you’ve provided the solution pic, and I don’t have the energy for a walkthrough, there’s not much I can post here. 🙄 So next time I suggest you to keep the solution unpublished for a few days.

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  3. h3lix
    Posted August 4, 2008 at 8:55 pm | Permalink

    That would be a good idea. I was modeling my posts after djape’s since he posts solutions along with the puzzles.
    Thanks for the feedback!

    Reply
  4. charmomom
    Posted August 5, 2008 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

    A walkthrough and/or some of those new techniques would be great. Only way to learn!

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  5. David Hoenig
    Posted August 6, 2008 at 6:54 pm | Permalink

    I take an opposite view to udosuk – I like the solution together with the puzzle so I do not waste time chasing ghosts (mistakes…)and getting frustrated

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  6. h3lix
    Posted August 7, 2008 at 11:19 pm | Permalink

    David has a good point, and I suppose it would be a bigger inconvenience for someone who is stuck or made a mistake somewhere to not have the solution than for the solution to be available.

    However, it would be fun to have a competitive aspect to the saturday specials 😈

    Charmommom, I have posted the beginning of a visual walkthrough here:
    http://www.djapedjape.com/sudoku/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9532

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  7. udosuk
    Posted August 9, 2008 at 1:33 pm | Permalink

    Okay, points taken. I agree the solution might need to be there…

    My competitiveness is sometimes unreasonably high, once in a while in four years. 😉

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  8. h3lix
    Posted August 9, 2008 at 2:43 pm | Permalink

    I guess I’ll leave the solution on then until I can think of a prize and a puzzle that can’t be solved with any known solvers, like mike’s variant.

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  9. Jane Smith
    Posted August 23, 2008 at 6:38 pm | Permalink

    more non consecutives

    Reply
  10. Tyler
    Posted December 25, 2008 at 3:04 am | Permalink

    Just finished this on a plane after working on it for months on and off. Really great puzzle; I could tell I was solving it the way you intended.

    Reply

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