Cracking Kakuro

By Editors of the Guardian

If You Like Sudoku, You'll Love Kakuro Kakuro is a brand-new number logic game made for fans of sudoku who are ready for something different. It's a little more challenging than sudoku, and it's overtaking sudoku's popularity in Japan and England. In kakuro, you start out with a completely blank grid, just like a crossword puzzle. Only to ace these puzzles, you'll have to use all the skills you've been sharpening with both crossword puzzles and sudoku puzzles. Add into the mix logic and a tiny bit of math (but nothing scary ) and you've got a highly absorbing and incredibly satisfying puzzle game that is just as addictive as sudoku. Cracking Kakuro gives you 100 of these fun and challenging puzzles, plus all of the rules for play and one puzzle that's explained step by step. There's also a table of Unique Digit Answers, which offers a shortcut to success and will help you add up numbers in your head A great gift for any crossword fan or sudoku addict, Cracking Kakuro is the perfect introduction to the newest puzzle craze.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030734679X
• ISBN13: 9780307346797
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.2"