If the names Sudoku, Hitori and Kakuro are known all over the world, few have heard of the game Kakurasu, although it fully complies with the classic canons of Japanese puzzles.
It is also played on a rectangular grid field, filling it with dark and light figures, in this case simply by painting over the required cells.
The larger the playing field, the more interesting it is to solve the puzzle. But not everyone will be able to cope with Kakurasu; to solve it you will have to make maximum intellectual efforts!
Game history
Unfortunately, there is no reliable information about who and when invented the Kakurasu puzzle either in gaming encyclopedias or in printed publications, where it was published several times.
It is only known that the birthplace of the game is Japan, which gave the world hundreds of other, no less interesting logic games. Perhaps the author of Kakurasu was one of the unknown readers of Nikoli magazine, where it was published in the 90s of the last century. This practice was typical for Nikoli - new games constantly appeared on its pages, often without the names and pseudonyms of the authors.
If in its historical homeland the game was called Kakurasu (カクラス), then when transferred to Western editions it also became known as Index Sums. Today, both of these names appear on the Internet, belonging to the same puzzle. It's easy to recognize - it's one of the few number games in which a grid field is surrounded by numbers on all sides: bottom, top, right and left. At the same time, the playing field itself is empty at the beginning of the game, and the player’s task is to fill it correctly.
Is this game difficult? It's hard to say until you try to play a few games yourself. Those who have already delved into its rules and learned to solve complex versions of the game (with large fields) claim that this is one of the most interesting ways to spend leisure time. Perhaps they are right, and Kakurasu will also become one of your favorite puzzle games! We believe you will succeed!
