How to Create a Kakuro Book for Amazon KDP

The Kakuro wizard is available on every LogikLand plan, including the FREE plan, from the dashboard. Commercial rights, which you need to sell your books on Amazon KDP, come with the PRO and EXPERT plans.

Bigger grids and longer sums make the puzzle harder, because more combinations of digits are possible.

• Fill every white square with a digit from 1 to 9.
• The grey squares give sums. The number in the top right corner is the sum of the white squares to its right, up to the next grey square. The number in the bottom left corner is the sum of the white squares below it.
• A digit can never appear twice in the same sum. Every grid has a single solution.

These rules are printed at the start of your book when you add the “How to play” page.

1. 1

   Book settings

   Choose the language of your book (English, French, Spanish, German or Italian), enter its title, select the page size (8.5 x 11 inches or 6 x 9 inches), and choose the “How to play” pages: a detailed guide with examples, a short text page, or none.

2. 2

   Puzzles

   Choose One level for a single difficulty, or Several levels to set a number of grids for each level in the same book.

3. 3

   Layout

   Choose the title of each puzzle (name, level and number, or the number only). Grids: 1 or 2 per page (1 in 6 x 9 inches for the Hard and Expert levels). Solutions: 1, 2, 4 or 6 per page (1, 2 or 4 in the Large Print edition). Then set the top, bottom, left and right margins, from 0.25 to 2 inches. A page counter shows the estimated length of your book compared with the page limit of your plan.

4. 4

   Generate, edit and export

   Click Generate Book. Your project opens in the visual editor, where you can change texts, fonts and positions, save your work, and download the book as a PDF or an editable PPTX file.

• Use 8.5 x 11 inches for large Kakuro grids: the sums are printed inside the grey squares.
• Easy and Medium grids only use sums of 2 to 4 squares: a good start before the 10 x 10 and 12 x 12 grids.
• Add the detailed “How to play” guide: it shows how to read the two sums of a grey square.

Amazon KDP margin requirements depend on your trim size and your page count: the inside margin must be larger for thicker books. Check the official KDP margin guidelines, preview your file in the KDP previewer, and increase the margins in the Layout step if needed.