カックロ

Japanese

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) 

  1. (games) kakuro

Descendants

  • → English: kakuro

See also

References

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