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KenKen
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Appendix:Variations of "kenken"
English
Alternative forms
en kenken Kenken Ken Ken ken ken Ken-Ken Ken-ken ken-ken
Etymology
From en ja 賢賢 KenKen, reduplication of ja 賢 ken.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɛn.kɛn/
en ɛn 2
en Ken Ken
Noun
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en Games A Japanese math game that involves adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers in boxes.
en 2009 Tetsuya Miyamoto KenKen: The New Brain-training Puzzle Phenomenon KenKen is the brilliant successor to Su Doku that's taken Japan by storm selling over one million copies in less than a year.
en 2011 Parnell Hall The KenKen Killings: A Puzzle Lady Mystery 85 Cora went through the whole explanation about solving KenKen.
en 2013 Learning Modern Algebra Al Cuoco; Joseph Rotman 56 The difficulty in solving a KenKen puzzle arises from there being too many ways to fill in each cage.
en 2018 Robert Fuhrer The Kenken Method - Puzzles For Beginners 15 Let's try some 4×4 KenKens using all four math operations!
Synonyms
en mathdoku calcdoku calcudoku calculdoku
See also
en wordsearch crossword sudoku kakuro suguru futoshiki