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Eliminating Guesswork in Kakuro: Parity and Logic

Eliminating Guesswork in Kakuro: Parity and Logic

You’re down to the last four squares of an expert Kakuro. You try one fill and every clue checks out. You erase it, try the other, and every clue checks out again. Your pencil hovers. One of them has to be wrong, and the puzzle has stopped giving you hints.

So you pick one. If you’re …