Ordinary Teacher

Kakuro

| Monday, September 24, 2007

Assalamualaikum,

Gosh help me...I've got new addiction. I can't stop doing it. It's just so...so tempting. Hehe. Well the good thing is I'm not addicted to drugs. But specifically I'm all down with solving Kakuro. Last time I was crazy about sudoku...but now I'm into solving a much complex mathematical puzzle.

What is Kakuro?
Quoted from Wikipedia...

"Kakuro is a kind of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. Kakuro puzzles are regular features in most, if not all, math-and-logic puzzle publications in the United States. Dell Megazines came up with the original English name Cross Sums and other names such as Cross Addition have also been used, but the Japanese name Kakuro, abbreviation of Japanese kasan kurosu, (加算クロス, addition cross) seems to have gained general acceptance and the puzzles appear to be titled this way now in most publications. The popularity of Kakuro in Japan is immense, second only to Sudoku among Nikoli's famed logic-puzzle offerings."

I guess those who love sudoku, will simply adore Kakuro. Well, I didn't at first. However after an intense tutorial from a colleague.of mine. I find it more interesting and more challenging.

Here are few websites that offers kakuro puzzles informations and tutorials online :

...and a lot more, just type kakuro on your favourite browser...Hiks.

By the way, if you guys wan't a downloadable, printable Kakuro and other puzzles...log on to krazydad.com. they got like thousands of Adobe's Acrobat e-book in there.

Gotta go...happy kakuro solving. Until then take care now bye bye then...

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