Rules -- Totally Awesum

This puzzle, also known as Kakuro, is often thought of as a Japanese puzzle craze; however, the puzzle was actually invented by Dell Magazines (under the name Cross Sums), an American company, and was adopted by the Japanese puzzle company Nikoli later.

On a somewhat off-topic note, most of the images on this blog are created in OpenOffice.org and Paint.NET. For example, images for Streaming Content puzzles are made in an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet and then copied into Paint.NET to be saved as a PNG. To make Fencing Match images, I type the givens on a grid with red borders around the cells, then copy-paste the grid behind a lattice of dots and remove the red lines with the flood fill tool. However, I have not yet found a more efficient way of creating images for Totally Awesum puzzles than Lomont's Cross Sums, which allows you to simply type in the solution and compute the sums automatically instead of entering the sums one by one, which I really don't like. :) The program can solve puzzles, as well; I always use this feature to make sure the puzzle is solvable before test-solving it by hand to make sure I'm truly satisfied with it. :D


1. Place a digit from 1 through 9 inclusive in each white cell of the grid.
2. A horizontal or vertical group of consecutive white cells, bounded on both sides by black cells or the edge of the grid, is called an entry. A number in a black cell above a diagonal line represents the sum of the digits in the horizontal entry to its right. A number in a black cell below a diagonal line represents the sum of the digits in the vertical entry below it.
3. No digit may be repeated within an entry.