カックロ

Japanese

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カックロ

Etymology

From 加(か)算(さん) (kasan, “addition”) + クロス (kurosu, “cross”), based on English Cross Sums or Cross Addition. Cross Sums appears in English from the 1960s,^[1] with Japanese カックロ from the 1980s.

Noun

カックロ • (kakkuro)

(games) kakuro

Descendants

→ English: kakuro

References

^ “Kakuro history”, in Conceptis puzzles‎^[1], 2024 March 8 (last accessed).

[1] “Kakuro history”, in Conceptis puzzles‎^[1], 2024 March 8 (last accessed).

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