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Holy crap, those were some hard levels! I just finished the final level (the dreaded Bonus level 6) about 12 minutes ago and I can assure everyone out there that YES, ALL puzzles are solveable with logic, although in many cases the mental contortions needed to work out the next step can end up plunging you into the depths of despair causing you to want to snap your own neck to end the pain. Please keep in mind that yes, they are all possible and it will get better. Keep plugging away at it and you will get through them all.
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Kenaron: I just solved Bonus 3 after working on it for a couple of days. It was definitely one of my more satisfying Kakuro solved yet. While I did have an awful lot of backtracking, there was nothing that involved random guessing. All I can suggest is that if you get a contradiction after attacking an area of the puzzle from one direction, then attack the same area from another. For example, I had no end of trouble attacking the top left quadrant starting from the top centre line. I eventually cracked it through the bottom right quadrant thanks to the 4/7 intersection and its unique properties when combined with 40 down. I'll leave it to you to work out what I mean by this. If you're still struggling with this part and this clue makes no sense no matter how much you struggle with it, please let me know and I'll give you the answer.
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OK... I came back to this game after about a year long break and FINALLY got Bonus level 1 complete! WHOO HOO! :-) For the record, Mythrilvael, I was referring to the 20 line below the one you're referring to, which has absolutely nothing to do with a 6.
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I want to know if bonus 3 is doable without brute force. Or at least without saving progress, making a guess, watching a chain reaction unfold, and see what leads to a contradiction several steps down the way. If it can be done with pure reason, I would like to know how that would look step by step.
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@Kosh67 - Can confirm that Bonus 1 is doable. It is quite difficult though, and requires a fair amount of "mental look-ahead" in the upper right quadrant. Also, 92414 is clearly not a possibility for 20 across since 4 appears twice, and the right-most number must be at least 6.
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Is Bonus level 1 even doable??? I've been working on it for 2 hours and it's the first puzzle in almost a decade where I've had to use any hints at all. Even after all that time, the closest I've gotten to solving it is 92414 for 20 across. I've checked through the puzzle and everything else appears to be exactly correct. Michael Mepham himself couldn't have devides a more torturous puzzle. I know there's a lot of people here who are listed as having completed every puzzle. I also know that hackers run pretty rampant on this site, so I really have my doubts about this one...
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I have several suggestions for improving the instructions:
1) Put the "NEXT" button on the right and the "PREV" button on the left.
2) Sometimes I have to click "NEXT" several times to get to the next page. Maybe it's a timing issue?
3) On the second page it says "2. You can only use each number" ... I think you mean "...each number once per row or column."
4) On the fourth page, the instructions overlap with the buttons.
5) On the second page from the end, fix the spelling of "nubers"
I think if you fix up the game and make the UI more interesting, Kakuro could become popular on Kongregate!
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It's not in the instructions, but you can type multiple numbers into a single box to "pencil in" possible answers. Type a number again to erase it from the box.
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not much to it, but I suppose there doesn't need to be :) I would like it if we could "pencil" possibles into the squares as we went along, like we can on at least one version of Sudoku on here.
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It would be really great if putting tips or what not was a little easier. I love the game, but it is fairly hard to handle the more difficult ones without being able to put in things as reminders.
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congratulations JonnnnY!
borgulz and you were the only 2 to complete both Kakuro and KakuroII. well done, some of the puzzles were very difficult. any recommendations for Kakuro III?
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I completed the first puzzle with what appears to be a correct solution, but it says that it's wrong. And it marks red a bunch of boxes for rows that are clearly correct, so the red boxes don't help! Is this just "you didn't solve it the way I expected you to"?? Needs better solution-checking ability and a clearer way to mark "here's where the problem is".
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Hrm. When you solve a puzzle and click "check" and then click "check" again it gives you two of the giant green checkmarks, so one of them gets stuck and never goes away
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One thing I just noticed is if you use 'check' and something happens to be wrong (say you mistyped in the very last square) and then you fix that thing and click check again without pressing the 'ok' box from that first wrong check, it will still come up as wrong
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thanks for the comment cybird, i think i fixed the bug, let me know if it works for you. i would love it if kong included badges for this game, hey you never know. i've included the api for it, so suggest something?
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Nice hard levels for kakuro. I see a bug :
If you save a game, then quit. When you continue (in the 1rst menu), complet it and check it with success, this level is always not solved and your high-score (in Kongregate database) don't count it.
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I like it. One thing might be that once you do 'check' and it says 'success!' when you click on the 'ok' it will take you back to the puzzle menu? It's just an extra click, so not a big hassle, but might be nice
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added functionality so that if you have a number entered into a box, and you hit that number again it removes number.
i.e.
you have a box with "3456" in it. you press "6" and it will remove the 6 in the box so it now reads "345"
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thanks for the suggestion crythias, i have added use of movement with wasd and arrow keys. using the helper you can use the mouse to enter a number. so that way game can be played with only mouse or only keyboard.
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Love Kakuro. If anything else, I'd like to use the arrow keys/WASD to move between boxes, or click and a 3x3 box to enter/choose a number is possible. The better (imho) crossword interfaces use the [Spacebar] to choose whether to to go across or down. If you get to choose multiple numbers, though, then that won't work. (I can't currently type [3][1] for \4 [ ][ ]). Going back and forth between mouse and keyboard is tedious. Also, a timer would be nice.I don't care about the music because I mute everything here anyway.
Finishing a puzzle should offer to go to the next puzzle in the set. Start/Continue don't work intuitively, because other games might reset completely if you choose "start". "continue" doesn't make sense: if you've finished a puzzle, "continue" may return you to that completed puzzle, not go to the menu to choose a new puzzle.
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thanks rosw.
i replaced 29 with a new puzzle, and i think i fixed the problem with the high scores. please let me know if you find anything else!
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I have done them all, inc. bonuses, up to puzzle 29 (and they've all been fine); i.e. I'm on the fifth column (coz I didn't notice the second page of puzzles until I'd finished the first).
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hmmm puzzle 29 does indeed have a problem, i thought i checked all of these before i published them...
nice job rosw, have you solved any of the bonus puzzles, or puzzles on the second page yet? i see 3 people with a score of 18, i wonder if the extra puzzles i added are not counting towards the higscore...
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Great game. I love it (especially the way the text gets bigger when there's less in a square -- very satisfying). And I love the way it's so easy to make notes (they don't even have to be numbers).
--- But I've got a problem with Puzzle 29: the top left corner has 5 as the sum of just one box, and 3 using 2 boxes, one of which is the box with the 5 -- and this is obviously undoable. Also the 24 below the 5 has no boxes, and 23 can't be done in 7 boxes. Does anyone else have this problem?
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This is fun :D
...save is screwed up, though, I beat the first one after beating the next three, and it won't register as being completed :c
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i'm impressed kerlossos!
i am in the process of adding another page of puzzles.
did you use the helper?
i requested a badge for completion but kongregate did not feel the game was badge worthy...