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 KAKURO

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Kakuro is a brain teasing IQ testing pencil and paper puzzle of logic, played on a grid of squares. Kakuro also known as Cross Sums is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword puzzle.

Location
Kakuro puzzles are found in daily newspapers on the Internet and you can buy books of Kakuro challenges.

Age
Like most puzzles Kakuro puzzles come in various degrees of difficulty, start simple and progress to your own ability. a personal challenge.

Ability
To be a successful Kakuro puzzle solver you will need patience, the ability to concentrate, and a heightened sense of deduction and problem solving, (a chess players mind).

Description
The object of a Kakuro puzzle is to insert a digit from 1 to 9 inclusive into each white cell so that the sum of the numbers in each entry matches the clue associated with it and that no digit is duplicated in any entry. Here is a list of some clue length pairings (the order of the digits must still be determined), to avoid grid duplication. 3-in-two;1,2 4-in-two;1,3 17-in-two;8,9 6-in-three;1,2,3 23-in-three;6,8,9 11-in-four;1,2,3,5 29-in-four;5,7,8,9 15-in-five;1,2,3,4,5

Dedication
No set amount of dedication is necessary, just casually when it suits you. although the more regularly you practise the sharper and quicker your mind becomes.

Potential
The potential of Kakuro is in the personal satisfaction of completing a puzzle, as you become more proficient this will become solving the puzzle in a time limit you have set yourself and potentially in a race to complete against others.

Closely Related Activities
Crosswords, word searching, puzzle solving and jigsaws.

Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.

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  The level of demand of Cerebral Learning that could occur as a direct consequence of absorbing factual information. Learning  

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