Kakuro (Zero) by Serkan Yürekli
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Theme: Zero
Author/Opus: This is the 341st puzzle from our managing editor Serkan Yürekli.
Rules: Standard Kakuro Rules, except that the allowed digit range is 0-9.
Difficulty: 4 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 6:30, Master = 9:45, Expert = 19:30
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for classic Kakuro and this link for Kakuro variations. More Kakuro puzzles can be found in Kakuro and Variations by Serkan Yürekli and in The Art of Puzzles 2.
36:00 … surprisingly, this went much faster than yesterday’s, even though the zeros messed with the bit of intuition I’ve built up over the week. Beautifully designed puzzle with a very fun solve path. 🙂
This was my experience too, but we had some testers that went the other way and took much longer on Saturday than Friday. Probably tied to how well you handle the new constraints versus a less typical “standard Kakuro” solve.
25:26.
14:03. That zero rule definitely slowed me down, but it made things interesting. I’d play more puzzles with this ruleset.