Best Kakuro

Best Kakuro is a small Windows application whose purpose is to help you create printable Kakuro puzzles with different difficulty levels and customizable grid size, as well as solve puzzles via the tool’s interface.

You are welcomed by a straightforward design. Instructions about how to play the game are revealed directly in the main window. Plus, you can also consult a help manual in case you want to find out more about the program’s capabilities.

Best Kakuro gives you the possibility to play a game using your keyboard or mouse. What’s more, you can make the application fill all squares with a single click, undo your actions, clear the workspace, as well as print the puzzle displayed in the main window. Puzzles can also be saved to PUZ file format so you can quickly import them in the future for other editing tasks.

You can fine-tune each game thanks to a set of dedicated options. You are allowed to select the preferred difficulty level, namely Novice, Easy, Medium, Hard, Advanced, or Killer. What’s more, you can specify if you want to use the keyboard or mouse, enable or disable ‘zeroes,’ and use a timer which can be automatically triggered when the puzzle is created.

When it comes to creating a brand-new Kakuro puzzle, the program lets you choose between different grid size options (8x10, 10x12, or 12x20), set the darkness level for printing, allow ‘zeroes’ in the solution, print solutions to puzzles, save puzzles to a file, input the preferred number of puzzle pages, as well as pick the difficulty level.

A special mode is offered for helping you define a puzzle by manually placing black squares in the grid. You can click on a square in order to toggle between black and white. Plus, you can specify the numbers of rows and columns.

Best Kakuro makes it easy for you to generate personalized puzzles, and can be handled by beginners and professionals alike.