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Fri, 18 May 2012

What does Kakuro mean?

Kakuro is an abbreviation of the Japanese name which may not trip off the tongue, being kasan kurosu.

Kakuro means 'across sum' which is in fact what it is also known as in some publications in english - or cross sum or sometimes cross addition.


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