Kakuro (Cross Sums)

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Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Kakuro (originally called Cross Sums) is a logic-based, math puzzle. The objective of the puzzle is to insert a digit from 1 to 9 inclusive into each white cell such that the sum of the numbers in each entry matches the clue associated with it and that no digit is duplicated in any entry.


FEATURES:
- modern layout
- five different difficulties
- hundreds of puzzles for each difficulty
- auto-save your progress for each puzzle
- unlimited undo/redo
- color input system for experts
- clean interface and smooth controls
- google play games achievements
- phones and tablets support

HELPFUL FEATURES (optional):
- selection modes: select first or number first
- pencil modes: automatic or manual
- keyboard configuration: auto, three rows, two rows, one row
- direction highlight: vertical and horizontal highlight
- rule violations: game rule warnings highlight
- sum errors: calculate if the sum is correct or not
- sum combinations: show all possible combinations
- multiple color input (advanced): use different colors to place numbers
- automatic error detection: show errors automatically
- bigger numbers: large font for better visualization

Ratings and reviews

PROs; This app has a great selection of smallish puzzles, the advertisements are only mildly annoying, and it's only $1.99 to remove the ads. CONs; You can't play offline unless you remove the ads, the clue numbers can be hard to see, only 3 colors to choose from, no large puzzles, and the active cell remains active after you enter a number instead of jumping to an empty cell.

Very good. I've probably finished, uninstalled, and redownloaded this 3 times at this point because the UI is probably one of if not the most intuitive and quick UIs I've encountered in this genre. Given the UI quality (which usually makes or breaks these types of puzzle compilations) I've been able to finish an easy puzzle in under 10 seconds and I have a lot of fun seeing if I can lower my total time per same level pack. Watched my avg time drop from 40m+ to ~10m per expert and I feel smarter.

I"m changing my 5 star review to one star after installing on a leveno 10 inch tablet. Two problems. 1st the complete puzzle would not be displayed. There was no way of scrolling to the right portion that was off the screen. 2nd was ads at the bottom covered up the numbers to select to put in the boxes. These made it unplayable. Still a 5 star puzzle on my phone.