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    This document summarizes strategies for solving a KenKen puzzle with a "Big O" cage configuration. It shows that the Big O cage must have a sum of 53 based on the maximum possible sums of its corners. Process of elimination and logic are then used to determine the operations and values that can fill the inner cages, ultimately solving the entire puzzle.

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    This document summarizes strategies for solving a KenKen puzzle with a "Big O" cage configuration. It shows that the Big O cage must have a sum of 53 based on the maximum possible sums of its corners. Process of elimination and logic are then used to determine the operations and values that can fill the inner cages, ultimately solving the entire puzzle.

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    This document summarizes strategies for solving a KenKen puzzle with a "Big O" cage configuration. It shows that the Big O cage must have a sum of 53 based on the maximum possible sums of its corners. Process of elimination and logic are then used to determine the operations and values that can fill the inner cages, ultimately solving the entire puzzle.

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    KenKen Strategies, Big O Puzzle

    In the standard puzzle KenKen, the numbers in each heavily outlined set of
    squares, called cages, must combine (in any order) to produce the target number in
    the top corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number
    can be repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column. In
    this 5 × 5 puzzle, the five numbers are 1 through 5. The operations are usually
    given as part of the clues. Here, they are not. Nevertheless, each clue is associated
    with one of the four standard arithmetic operations.

    50

    11 8

    1
    KenKen Strategies, Big O Puzzle

    As usual, the first step is to assign operator symbols to those clues we can be
    sure about. The Big O cage cannot have 1’s at all four corners. It can have at most
    two 1’s. The maximum possible sum for the ring, including the 3 in the bottom
    right it 15 + 15 + 12 + 12 = 54. With a 3 in the corner, the maximum possible is
    53, just what we have. Thus we can be sure of the four corners.

    50+

    2 1
    11+ 8

    3
    1 3

    2
    KenKen Strategies, Big O Puzzle

    The next step is to find candidates for the cages inside the O. Since the sum of all
    P P P
    25 digits is 5(1+2+3+4+5) = 75, we can state: [11+]+ [4]+ [8] = 75−53 = 22,
    P P
    which can be simplified to [4] + [8] = 11. Some thought yields the conclusion
    {[8]} = {[8×]} = {1, 2, 4} and {[2]} = {1, 1, 2}. That brings us to

    50+

    2 1
    11+ 8
    1
    4
    1
    2 1
    3
    1 3

    3
    KenKen Strategies, Big O Puzzle

    Putting all this together,

    50+

    2 5 4 3 1
    11+ 8
    4 3 5 1 2
    4
    5 1 3 2 4
    3 2 1 4 5
    3
    1 4 2 5 3

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