Kakuro (Daily Mail)

About Kakuro (Daily Mail)

Kakuro is one of about thirty puzzles on the Daily Mail games page, free in the browser with ads. Each one opens on a start screen that carries the day's date, and every reader gets the same puzzle that day.

A kakuro grid looks like a crossword, but the clues are numbers. Each clue gives the total of the run of white squares to its right or below it, and you fill those squares with the digits 1 to 9 so they add up to the total without repeating a digit inside the run.

The puzzle opens behind the Daily Mail's consent screen, where you either accept personalised ads or buy an ad-free subscription. It suits readers who like a kakuro with their news and want a fresh one every day.

How to play Kakuro (Daily Mail)

1. Open Kakuro on the Daily Mail games page.
2. Read the sum clue for each run across and down.
3. Fill each white square with a digit from 1 to 9.
4. Make every run add up to its clue with no repeated digit.

Tips

• Some totals have one combination only: 3 in two squares is 1 and 2, and 45 in nine squares is every digit.
• Where an across run and a down run share a square, compare their possible digits.

Questions