Reviewer, 2011-07-02 11:29:00

If you have ever been interested in some of the most popular and challenging puzzles across the world, you must have definitely come over the names of SuDoku, Futoshiki, Nonogram, Kakuro, Crossword etc. These puzzles have been popular since decades and are regularly published in newspapers, magazines, journals and other media in order to gain the readership. Such puzzles are especially recommended for children as they help them in broadening their thinking horizon considerably. Due to this, such puzzles have also been developed for Computers and various other portable devices so as to provide them flexible functionality on a facilitated platform and wider reach. A similar puzzle developed on the lines of original Kakuro game is the Kakuro Epic (Mac) v.3.61.

Kakuro Epic (Mac) is a shareware puzzle game by Kristanix Games. It is a Kakuro puzzle, developed exclusively for use on the Mac OS powered computers by Apple Inc. The genre of the Kakuro puzzle is same as that of the most popular SuDoku game and thus it can ensure you to be involved in a number crunching exercise during the whole gameplay. The game provides flexibility of generating a new puzzle each time from 6X6 size to 14X14 sized grids. Apart from this, you can also self select the difficulty level that you want in the puzzle according to the level of your expertise at it. Unlike the paper version, the player has to concentrate only on the logic part of the puzzle where the markup, scanning and revelation of certain numbers is done by the AI assistant itself. If you see a really challenging puzzle in some newspaper and are not able to get the solution, you can enter this puzzle in this game and the application will solve it for you.

Overall, Kakuro Epic (Mac) v.3.61 is a nice puzzle game with flexible functionality specifically designed for the enthusiasts of the traditional genre of Kakuro puzzle games. Hence, it receives a score of four rating points on the scale of five.