12 kakuro puzzles with answers
A crossword of numbers: write 1 to 9 in the white squares so each run adds to the total in the grey square before it, with no number repeated in a run. Easy grids first, then bigger ones. Solve on screen, where each square shows the ways its runs can be made, or print them with the answers.
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Easy kakuro
- 1
Easy kakuro 1: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 26 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 7 by 7 kakuro grid with 26 white squares and 20 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
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Hint: Start with the down run at row 2, column 3: 16 in 2 squares can only be 7 and 9.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing. Runs of two to four squares; every step comes from what a run's total allows and from the square where an across run and a down run cross.
- 2
Easy kakuro 2: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 26 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 7 by 7 kakuro grid with 26 white squares and 20 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
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Hint: Start at row 2, column 2: the across 16 in 2 squares can only be 7 and 9, and the down 14 in 2 squares can only be 5 and 9, or 6 and 8. The one number they share is 9.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing. Runs of two to four squares; every step comes from what a run's total allows and from the square where an across run and a down run cross.
- 3
Easy kakuro 3: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 26 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 7 by 7 kakuro grid with 26 white squares and 20 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
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Hint: Start at row 3, column 2: the across 3 in 2 squares can only be 1 and 2, and the down 4 in 2 squares can only be 1 and 3. The one number they share is 1.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing. Runs of two to four squares; every step comes from what a run's total allows and from the square where an across run and a down run cross.
- 4
Easy kakuro 4: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 26 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 7 by 7 kakuro grid with 26 white squares and 20 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
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Hint: Start at row 6, column 2: the across 22 in 3 squares can only be 5, 8 and 9, or 6, 7 and 9, and the down 6 in 2 squares can only be 1 and 5, or 2 and 4. The one number they share is 5.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing. Runs of two to four squares; every step comes from what a run's total allows and from the square where an across run and a down run cross.
Medium kakuro
- 5
Medium kakuro 1: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 33 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 8 by 8 kakuro grid with 33 white squares and 26 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
Solve it on screenmedium
Hint: Start with the across run at row 2, column 3: 3 in 2 squares can only be 1 and 2.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing, with the same steps as the easy ones on a bigger grid: what each total allows, the crossings, and a number every way of making a run needs that only one of its squares can take.
- 6
Medium kakuro 2: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 33 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 8 by 8 kakuro grid with 33 white squares and 26 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
Solve it on screenmedium
Hint: Start at row 8, column 8: the across 4 in 2 squares can only be 1 and 3, and the down 3 in 2 squares can only be 1 and 2. The one number they share is 1.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing, with the same steps as the easy ones on a bigger grid: what each total allows, the crossings, and a number every way of making a run needs that only one of its squares can take.
- 7
Medium kakuro 3: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 33 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 8 by 8 kakuro grid with 33 white squares and 26 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
Solve it on screenmedium
Hint: Start at row 6, column 8: the across 4 in 2 squares can only be 1 and 3, and the down 3 in 2 squares can only be 1 and 2. The one number they share is 1.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing, with the same steps as the easy ones on a bigger grid: what each total allows, the crossings, and a number every way of making a run needs that only one of its squares can take.
- 8
Medium kakuro 4: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 33 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 8 by 8 kakuro grid with 33 white squares and 26 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
Solve it on screenmedium
Hint: Start at row 8, column 4: the across 14 in 2 squares can only be 5 and 9, or 6 and 8, and the down 16 in 2 squares can only be 7 and 9. The one number they share is 9.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing, with the same steps as the easy ones on a bigger grid: what each total allows, the crossings, and a number every way of making a run needs that only one of its squares can take.
Hard kakuro
- 9
Hard kakuro 1: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 54 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 10 by 10 kakuro grid with 54 white squares and 36 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
Solve it on screenhard
Hint: Start with the across run at row 4, column 2: 16 in 2 squares can only be 7 and 9.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing, but not from the totals alone: at least once you have to try which order of a run's numbers fits the runs that cross it.
- 10
Hard kakuro 2: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 54 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 10 by 10 kakuro grid with 54 white squares and 40 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
Solve it on screenhard
Hint: Start with the down run at row 7, column 6: 3 in 2 squares can only be 1 and 2.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing, but not from the totals alone: at least once you have to try which order of a run's numbers fits the runs that cross it.
- 11
Hard kakuro 3: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 57 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 10 by 10 kakuro grid with 57 white squares and 42 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
Solve it on screenhard
Hint: Start with the down run at row 2, column 10: 16 in 2 squares can only be 7 and 9.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing, but not from the totals alone: at least once you have to try which order of a run's numbers fits the runs that cross it.
- 12
Hard kakuro 4: write a number from 1 to 9 in each of the 54 white squares. Each run of white squares adds to the total in the grey square before it: the across total above the line, the down total below it. No number repeats inside a run.
A 10 by 10 kakuro grid with 54 white squares and 38 runs, each total in the grey square before it.
Solve it on screenhard
Hint: Start with the across run at row 3, column 9: 16 in 2 squares can only be 7 and 9.
AnswerEvery run adds to its total, with no number repeated in a run.
It solves with no guessing, but not from the totals alone: at least once you have to try which order of a run's numbers fits the runs that cross it.
Timer and team scores
8 turns × 60 seconds = 8 minutes of play, plus instructions and breaks.
60
Pause whenever the group needs more time.
Team Lime's turn
Team Lime: 0
Team Violet: 0
Team Tangerine: 0
Team Sky: 0
Team Lemon: 0
Team Bubblegum: 0
Use this set with a group
Read a prompt, allow thinking time, then invite an answer or a pass. For a timed round, choose a turn length before starting. A host can keep the printed answers out of view until the round ends.