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Stanford Engineering Puzzle

Special Announcement

Stanford Engineering Alumni Program Honorary Degrees in Puzzology are hereby awarded to our most diligent solvers!

August 2008

Stanford Engineering is fortunate and excited to be building a new quad, including a new School of Engineering Center. It is in this spirit of rebirth and continuous improvement that we proudly bring you this new vastly improved Kakuro game in the shape of the new quad. Last month's puzzle left a lot to be desired, but our alumni heard the call for better puzzles and have stepped up big time. Special thanks to Kenichi (Ken) Futamura for creating this month's puzzle and to Nick Baxter for his testing, editing and refinements.

Kakuro on the Quad

Kakuro is a number puzzle, that is sort of a cross between sudoku and a crossword puzzle. In the grid below your job is to fill in numbers that will add up to specific sums. The sums are denoted by the small numbers in the colored squares. Those numbers refer to sums that either extend directly below them, to their right, or both (when numbers appear on both sides of the slash).

There are a couple of rules to keep in mind: 1)Only use the numbers 1-9 to fill in the grid (i.e. no double-digit numbers allowed). 2)No digit will repeat in a sum (you can't add two 5s to make 10).

Anyway, to show that you have successfully completed the puzzle, make sure to e-mail Marge Kastner with the number of 5s that occupy white squares when the puzzle is done.

August Kakuro Puzzle

"Winning" entries

This month's puzzle must have been really tough! The answers have been very slow in arriving. So everyone who answers gets on the WEB! Congratulations all.

  • 1) Michael Connors
  • 2) Florian Gicquel
  • 3) Kai Yu
  • 3.5) Ed Wilson
  • 4) Mike Harris
  • 4.5) Kevin Koehler
  • 5) Mike Medin
  • 6) Eylon Stroh
  • 7) Judy Wu
  • 8) Edward Conklin
  • 9) Ratab Ramchandani
  • 10) Laurent Lessard
  • 11) Tony Lillios
  • 12) Paul Swenson
  • 13) Mark Vranicar
  • 14) Nico Martinez-de-Hoz
  • 15) Jeff Blohm
  • 16) Linda Knudsen
  • 17) Jasna Ristic-Djurovic
  • 18) Steve Francis
  • 19) Eric Juline

Do you want to try your hand at past puzzles? Go to our Archive page.