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January 16, 2006
Looking for a new challenge now that you’ve mastered sudoku? Kakuro might be just what you need, and Kakuro For Dummies is a great place to start!

A kakuro puzzle is a grid consisting of interlocking horizontal rows and vertical columns of squares, called blocks. You fill in the empty squares with numbers that match the clues and work both horizontally and vertically. Sound simple? Guess again! Kakuro uses the logic of sudoku plus some basic math skills. But relax—Kakuro For Dummies explains the clues, combinations, fixed values, and candidates—all the pieces of the puzzle.

Like its sudoku counterpart, Kakuro For Dummies includes 240 puzzles from breezy easy to diabolically difficult. It demystifies the process, walking you through completing your first puzzle with illustrations and explanations that show the logic involved. You’ll get your feet wet with more than 100 easy puzzles, sharpen your skills on120 in the medium –to-difficult range, and if you’re brave enough, go head-to-head with nine devilish ones that’ll keep you awake nights.

In no time, you’ll find yourself as addicted to kakuro as you are—or were—to sudoku, and having twice as much fun! You do the math.


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From the Back Cover

Love Sudoku? Give Kakuro a try!

Kakuro is here – add together two digits, apply a little logic, and become addicted!

Kakuro For Dummies takes you step-by-step through the strategy of this numbers game, giving you 240 brand new puzzles – from the easy to the diabolically difficult – to satisfy all your Kakuro cravings.

Discover how to

  • Play the latest number puzzle craze
  • Crack Kakuro 'clues'
  • Identify and master number combinations
  • Solve grids at all ability levels

About the Author

Andrew Heron is the author of the best-selling Sodoku For Dummies series and a puzzle compiler for international newspapers.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (January 16, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 047002822X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470028223
  • Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,529,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Bad mismatch between introduction and puzzles, March 17, 2006
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This is a straightforward book: a short chapter on how to play Kakuro, and 240 puzzles to solve. The introduction gives a nice overview of how Kakuro works, and the basic steps to take in solving a puzzle.

Unfortunately, there is a large disparity between the skills the intro gives you, and the skills needed to complete the puzzles that make up the rest of the book. This gap is about the size of the Grand Canyon - I have attempted dozens of the "easy" puzzles in /Kakuro For Dummies/, and I have only solved 4. Only 2 of those were without looking in the solutions to find out where I had messed up part-way.

I'm fairly certain I am not a moron - I can solve many Kakuro puzzles from other sources. I'm not great at it, but I can do it. As a "For Dummies" book, I find this one very disappointing. All it will do is discourage you from a very enjoyable puzzle game.

I really, really wanted to give this book a favorable review, but I just cannot. Even the easiest puzzles early in the book can be downright perplexing, and some of them are simply unsolvable given the very basic guide at the start. To put it simply, you *cannot* solve the majority of the puzzles in this book using *only* this book.

Note to the "Dummies" publishers for a future revision:

* Include much easier puzzles to start! The majority of the so-called "easy" puzzles are impossible to solve with the meager understanding this book offers.
* Add a section with more advanced techniques for solving larger, harder puzzles.

Bottom line: If you already know how to do Kakuro and want a huge selection of challenging puzzles, buy this book. If you are just starting out, look elsewhere unless you are looking for massive frustration.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Makes you feel like a dummy, April 17, 2006
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This should be titled, "Kakuro to make you feel like a dummy!" The "easy" ones are harder than the "Beware! Very Challenging" puzzles in the Will Shortz book. The puzzles are so small that I had to rip out the pages and enlarge them on a copier so I had room to work and didn't go blind. Almost any other book has to be better than this one.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Too difficult "easy" level puzzles!, December 27, 2006
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I bought this book for my dad since he enjoys sudoku so much and I thought he would like it. However, we (together) were unable to work through several of the easiest puzzles in the book. This would be a great book for someone really up for a kakuro challenge but AWFUL for a beginner. I can work really difficult puzzles from other sources and, no lie, I could not work through several of the easy puzzles. It will turn any beginner off to kakuro. This is certainly no book for dummies. It should be titled: "Kakuro for Geniuses"
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