Free printable Kakuro with answers
Kakuro, also called cross-sums, is a crossword-shaped number puzzle. Fill each run of white cells with distinct digits 1 to 9 that add up to the clue in the black cell before it, with no digit repeating in a run. Every puzzle here has exactly one solution.
By size
Size and run length are what make a Kakuro harder: a bigger grid with longer runs has more ways to split each sum. Start on a 5 by 5 and work up to a 7 by 7.
Easy Kakuro
Free printable easy Kakuro with answers. A gentle 5 by 5 grid with short two-cell runs that solve in a few minutes. Print with the completed grid. No sign-up.
Medium Kakuro
Free printable medium Kakuro with answers. A 6 by 6 grid for everyday solving, each with one answer the clues pin exactly. Print with the completed grid.
Hard Kakuro
Free printable hard Kakuro with answers. A 6 by 6 grid with longer runs and bigger sums to combine. One solution, printed with the answer.
Large Kakuro
Free printable large Kakuro with answers. A 7 by 7 grid for a long cross-sums solve, with the completed grid on page two. No sign-up, no watermark.
By name and audience
The same puzzle goes by more than one name. Cross-sums, or a gentle grid for a beginner, they all solve the same way.
Cross-sums puzzles
Free printable cross-sums puzzles with answers. Cross-sums is the classic name for Kakuro, a crossword grid of digit sums. Print with the completed grid.
Kakuro for beginners
Free printable Kakuro for beginners with answers. Small grids with short runs to learn the rules, each with one solution. Print with the answer.
One answer, proved by a solver
The thing that makes a Kakuro book worth printing is the guarantee most sellers cannot make: that the clues fix exactly one grid of digits. Valid Kakuro generation needs a solver, and every puzzle here is run through one before it prints, with the completed grid as the answer key.
How to solve a kakuro
Kakuro is a crossword done with numbers: fill each run of white squares with digits that add up to its clue.
The method
- 1Read the clues. A number in a black square is the total for the run of white squares to its right or below it.
- 2Fill runs with 1 to 9, no repeats. Each run uses digits 1 to 9, and no digit repeats within a single run.
- 3Start with the tight runs. A two-square run adding to 3 can only be 1 and 2. Short runs and extreme totals have few combinations, so begin there.
- 4Use the crossings. Every white square sits in an across run and a down run. A digit must satisfy both, which quickly narrows the choices.
- The one rule
- Fill the white squares so each run adds to its clue, using 1 to 9 with no repeat in a run.
- What the answer page shows
- The filled grid is printed at the back.
- How the grades differ
- Larger grids with longer runs allow more combinations and need more crossing logic.
- Good for
- Solvers who enjoy sums and the crossword-style grid.
Make one now
Pick a size from a gentle 5 by 5 up to a 7 by 7, then print the puzzle and its answer. No sign-up, no watermark.