Essential Book of Kakuro 2

Name: Essential Book of Kakuro 2
Price: 12.31 USD
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ISBN: 9780743299565

ISBN-10: 0743299566

ISBN-13: 9780743299565

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gareth Moore, Pete Sinden

List price: $17.99

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Kakuro is a Japanese game of logic -- and the next big puzzle craze to sweep the world since Su Doku. Like Su Doku, Kakuro is played on grids of varying sizes, using the numbers 1 to 9 and, like Su Doku, Kakuro is absorbing, addictive and utterly compelling. Combining numbers and logic, and with the interconnectedness of a crossword puzzle, this is a game for everyone -- all you need is the ability to add two numbers together. Like the first volume in this series,The Essential Book of Kakuro 2contains full instructions to the game, along with hints, tips and invaluable number-combination tables, as well as more than 100 original puzzles for beginners to experts (and their solutions). If…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication date: 8/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.80" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English

Dr Gareth Moore is the author of a wide range of brain-training and puzzle books for both children and adults, including The Little Book of Puzzles, The Kids' Book of Crosswords, The Brain Workout, Train the Brain and a wide range of other books. He also writes the monthly magazine Sudoku Xtra and runs the puzzle website www.puzzlemix.com. He gained his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he worked on machine intelligence.



Kakuro involves placing the numbers 1 to 9 into a square grid in the same way that letters are placed into a crossword. Unlike a crossword, however, the clues are given within the grid. The aim is to make each "run" of horizontal or vertical squares add up to the total printed at the start of that run. You can't, however, repeat a number within the answer to a clue -- that is, within a run -- in the same way that Su Doku also forbids this. In fact, if you're good at Su Doku then some of the tactics used to complete those puzzles will also help with solving Kakuro.