Editor's review
Kakuro is a famous puzzle game belonging to the same genre as Sudoku and other similar titles, and the game can be simply regarded as the mathematical transliteration of a crossword puzzle game. Due to its immense popularity, the game has also found its own place in the popular periodic publications alongside the classic Sudoku, Crosswords, word games and brain twisters. Undoubtedly, the game requires sharp logic and thinking abilities on the part of the player and can act as a good exercise for people who lack these skills. Kakuro Dream v.4.0 is a remake of this game for playing on PC with a host of enhancement features in the puzzle solving.
Coming straight from the house of Sun Bear Games, Kakuro Dream v.4.0 is a freeware puzzle game which can be comprehensively used for Kakuro puzzle solving and can act as a trainer and expert solver of such puzzles with any difficulty level. The game has an interface consisting of a scenic background with puzzle grid and menu pane over it. You can generate custom puzzles with a free choice so far the difficulty level and size of the puzzle are concerned. The format of the puzzle can be 6x6, 7x7, 9x9, 12x12 and 14x14 and the difficulty level can be anywhere from the easiest for the beginners to the hardest for experts. The created puzzle can be directly printed or can be saved for a later use. If you just want to focus on the logic of the puzzle, then this application can scan, markup or reveal certain numbers for you. Apart from this, you can also enter a Kakuro puzzle into it from an external source and can easily view the solution.
Kakuro Dream v.4.0 is overall a nice application which acts as a complete application and can act as an infinite source of new puzzles along with their solutions. Hence it receives a rating of four out of five.
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