Hi, thanks for watching the video! It's hard to explain in words but the core idea is that you look at the squares in a region that are shared by both across and down clues, and the total for these regions. Then if there is, say, one square that sticks out from an across clue that is not shared with the down clues being looked at, then we know it's value is the total-of-the-across-clues minus the total-of-the-down-clues, since we know every other value in the set of across clues is also part of the down clues. Hopefully that helps a bit!!!
Let’s use substitution. If you labeled all of those boxes in the upper left with a letter, from the column perspective, you have abc defg hi. From the row perspective, all but “g” are spoken for. So we can substitute 41 (6+19+16) for abcdefhi and 45 (20+19+6) for a to i. We now have 41 + g = 45, box g=4.
Hi Manuel, thanks for the comment on the video. Essentially the method just involves observing that there are often areas of a grid where all the squares are common to both a series of across clues and a series of down clues, apart from one or two squares. Adding up all the clue squares in each direction and finding the difference then reveals the total of the additional square(s). Hope that helps understand how it works!
Very clever, have solved lots of kakuro but had never considered this method before. Great video!
Neat idea! Very clearly explained and easy for anybody to understand. Thanks!
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I watched this several times and still don't understand the method.
Hi, thanks for watching the video! It's hard to explain in words but the core idea is that you look at the squares in a region that are shared by both across and down clues, and the total for these regions. Then if there is, say, one square that sticks out from an across clue that is not shared with the down clues being looked at, then we know it's value is the total-of-the-across-clues minus the total-of-the-down-clues, since we know every other value in the set of across clues is also part of the down clues. Hopefully that helps a bit!!!
Let’s use substitution. If you labeled all of those boxes in the upper left with a letter, from the column perspective, you have abc defg hi. From the row perspective, all but “g” are spoken for. So we can substitute 41 (6+19+16) for abcdefhi and 45 (20+19+6) for a to i. We now have 41 + g = 45, box g=4.
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It looks promising. I wish it was better explained. Thanks anyway! Cheers
Hi Manuel, thanks for the comment on the video. Essentially the method just involves observing that there are often areas of a grid where all the squares are common to both a series of across clues and a series of down clues, apart from one or two squares. Adding up all the clue squares in each direction and finding the difference then reveals the total of the additional square(s). Hope that helps understand how it works!
@@claritymediapuzzles I had a hard time understanding how to know which squares are part of the same "grid" but this comment really helped, thank you!
You are going to fast.