Funtastic Puzzles

Funtastic Puzzles - 160 Very Easy Kakuro Puzzles - Kakuro #1

Does your brain need a mental workout? Do you find maths a bit of a chore? Would you like to impress your neighbours with your new-found skills in mathematics? Okay, the last one may be a bit hyperbolic but you get the point. Anyway, if you are looking for a book to exercise the old grey matter then you're in luck because you have stumbled across one of the best kakuro puzzle books in the business, especially if you are looking for a very easy kakuro puzzle book, which this one is. It doesn't matter if you are looking for kakuro puzzle books for adults, for young people or even for youngsters, this kakuro book is easy enough that anyone with patience can do it, no matter what their age or level of kakuro experience is. But what are kakuro puzzles? They are actually a lot easier than they look. A kakuro puzzle is like a maths crossword. You have to put numbers into the grid, either down or across, that add up to the sum of the number in the grey box. There are two types of boxes - grey and white. The white boxes are where the numbers (1 to 9) go. The grey boxes are where the clues go, each number being a sum of the numbers in the white boxes. So, if the number in the grey box is '7' and there are three white boxes, then the numbers in the three boxes must add up to '7'. Simple, right?Please note: The design of kakuro puzzles differ depending on the book publisher. In this book, if there are two numbers in one grey box, the top number is for the clue going down, the bottom number is for the clue going across. READ THE NEXT BIT ONLY IF YOU'RE NOT A KAKURO GEEKDo you want to join kakuro forums? If you do, then you'll want to discuss not just kakuro puzzles but also the tactics required to solve them. And because kakuro fans are a bit sad, we have a shorthand for referring to entries. It goes "(clue, in numerals)-in-(number of cells in an entry, spelt out)", such as "16-in-two" and "25-in-five". The exception is what would otherwise be called the "45-in-nine"-simply "45" is used, since the "-in-nine" is mathematically implied (nine cells is the longest possible entry, and since it cannot duplicate a digit it must consist of all the digits from 1 to 9 once). Curiously, both "43-in-eight" and "44-in-eight" are still frequently called as such, despite the "-in-eight" suffix being equally implied. Now that you know how the shorthand works, just imagine the hours of fun you can have talking with like-minded aficionados of kakuro puzzles about those puzzles that you can't do. The long winter nights will just fly by!