Kakuro – Logic Puzzle Fun

If you’ve mastered Suduko, you might want to try the Japanese game Kakuro. The Kakuro game uses some of those same logic skills. Kakuro is different though in that it actually uses math, but it is still more a logic puzzle than a math exercise. It’s also called “cross sums” or “Kakro”. The Kakuro board looks much like a crossword puzzle. Some squares are blank, others are shaded, some have numbers instead of crossword clues that tell the player what the blank spaces add up to. The player fills in answers “across” and “down”. Only digits one through nine are … Continue reading