The two tables represent two scenarios of the same problem.

All Alphanumeric Values Tot V 20 C 92 I U E O O E E A O A C 70 V 15 40 54 37 42 24 Vowels from 1 to 5 Tot V 6 C 92 I U E O O E E A O A C 70 V 6 37 43 34 36 24

Add ten consonants [orange] to form five 4-letter words vertically of the structure CVVC.

When some vowels are added appropriately [yellow], the orange and yellow cells, when read in a left to right manner form a sentence which has some relevance to the title. Such vowels precede the consonants to which they are vertically paired in the table. Of those vowels only one is duplicated.

In the first table all letters are valued A-Z from 1 to 26. In the second table the vowels have ascending values from 1 to 5.

The green cells represent the column sums of values of all absent letters.

What is the sentence?

On reading cell order of sentence. If the first two vowels occur in the second and fourth yellow cells the sentence would begin CVCCVC.

Given that only one absent vowel is duplicated, and from the given horizontal vowel V totals and the vertical absent letter VCCV totals, the absent vowels for each grid are one the following:

+-+-+-+-+-+  +-+-+-+-+-+  +-+-+-+-+-+  +-+-+-+-+-+
|E|O| | | |  |E|O| | | |  |E|O| | | |  | |O|E| | |
+=+=+=+=+=+  +=+=+=+=+=+  +=+=+=+=+=+  +=+=+=+=+=+
|A| |E|I| |  | |A|E|I| |  | | |E|I|A|  |E| |A|I| |
+-+-+-+-+-+  +-+-+-+-+-+  +-+-+-+-+-+  +-+-+-+-+-+


Given the vowels and the horizontal row totals for the consonants C, the following are the strings of letters from which the sentence might be found:

1. EPOYRMTARNENITD - (pier yuen rean moot toad)
2. EPOYLSTARNETIND - (pier yuen leat soon toad)
3. EPOSRSTARTENIND - (pier suet rean soon toad)
4. EPOSRSTSASENIND - (pies sues rean soon toad)
5. POYERMTESNAMITD - (pies yuen ream moot toad)
6. POYELSTESNASIND - (pies yuen leas soon toad)
7. POSERSTESTAMIND - (pies suet ream soon toad)
8. POYEKTTESNATIMD - (pies yuen keat toom toad)

String 7 can be divided into the words, forming the sentence sought after:
POSERS TEST A MIND

The English words (which include uncommon [possibly outdated] and non-American English words) that allow conformity to the consonant and vowel totals are as follows:

• keat - a young guinea fowl
• leas - plural: an open area of grassy land
• leat - [U.K.] an artificial water trench
• moot - open to argument or debate
• near - moves toward; close; almost
• pier - a support for two adjacent bridge spans
• pies - plural: baked dish encased in pastry
• ream - a quantity of paper equal to 20 quire
• soon - in the near future
• sues - petitions a court for redress
• suet - a hard fat on loins of beef and mutton
• toad - an amphibian of the Family Bufonidae
• toom - [chiefly Scottish] empty
• yuen - the crowned gibbon, Hylobates pileatus  

Posted by Dej Mar on 2009-03-13 18:00:14