Printable Kakuro
Four puzzles to a sheet, at a size you can write in, with the answers on a separate page. Pick a level below, or play them on screen instead.
Why the answers are on their own page
Because a sheet with the answers under the grids is a sheet you cannot use. Peripheral vision is not optional and you will read them, and once you have there is no going back to the puzzle.
So the print stylesheet puts a page break between the puzzles and the answers. Four grids come out on the first sheet and four answers on the second, which also means you can hand the puzzles to somebody and keep the answers.
That break is enforced with display rules that remove everything else from the printed page rather than merely hiding it. Hiding something keeps the space it occupied, which is how a one-page sheet turns into one page of grid followed by three blank ones — the commonest defect in printable puzzle sites and one worth checking for on any of them.
The size the squares come out
A nine-by-nine grid four to an A4 sheet gives squares of roughly fifteen millimetres. That is enough to write a digit comfortably and enough to pencil three or four candidates into a corner, which from the medium level up you will need to do.
Newspaper Kakuro is often printed at four or five millimetres a square. It looks compact and it makes the harder grids close to unsolvable on paper, because there is physically nowhere to put the candidates you are trying to remember.
If you want them bigger, print one level down in grid size — a seven-by-seven at four to a sheet gives squares near twenty millimetres, which is generous enough for a child learning the game or for anyone working in pen.
What you are printing
The same puzzles that are on the play pages, from the same checked library. Nothing on paper is a lesser version: each grid has been through a solver that counts answers and stops at two, and anything with a second answer was discarded rather than printed with a note.
The difficulty label means the same thing on paper as on screen too. It is decided by running a solver that works the way a person does and recording the hardest thing it needed, not by counting how much of the grid is blank.
And it needs no account, no download and no PDF reader. It is an ordinary web page with a print stylesheet, which is why it prints the same from a phone as from a desktop.
Common questions
- Are these Kakuro printouts really free?
- Yes, with no account and no limit. Print as many sheets as you like.
- How many Kakuro puzzles fit on one page?
- Four, at a size where the squares are about fifteen millimetres and there is room to pencil candidates in. The answers to those four print on the following page.
- Can I print the answers separately?
- They already are separate — a page break sits between the puzzles and the answers, so you can print just the first sheet, or hand the puzzles on and keep the second.
Check this before you rely on it. This tool is provided free and without warranty, and its results are not professional advice.