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How to Make a Kakuro Puzzle From Scratch

How to Make a Kakuro Puzzle From Scratch

You’ve solved a few hundred Kakuro grids, and one evening you decide to make one. Graph paper, a pencil, an hour. You shade some black squares, write digits in the white ones, add up the sums, and hand the finished puzzle to a friend. Ten minutes later they slide it back across the table. The …