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A silly opinion (Posted on 2012-09-11)

Let
W1: A plague on ---- of your houses.
W2: F,R,C. lend me your ---- .
SUM: The buck ----- here.
DIFF(=w1-w2): --- is a picturesque village on Santorini island.

Create alphametic equations based on above data.
Solve them to decode some critic's unrelated, biased and not necessarily sound opinion:

406 7614 1392 32689 51 "485761".

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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My Solution Method

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Step 1. Think of the alphametic words.

Step 2. First notice that H + S = S. Therefore H = 0.

Step 3. Notice 406, must be _H_. I postulated the word was THE, therefore T = 4 and E = 6.

Step 4. I postulated that 51 was the word "is", so I set I = 5 and S = 1.

Step 5. I looked at the word "485761" = T_I_ES. I also knew I needed to find codes for the letters P, O, R, B. The first word I could think of was thus "TRIBES", which gives R = 8 and B = 7.

Step 6. I wrote out the cryptic message as much as I could, and intuitively filled in the blank letters. I then checked that the sum and subtraction requirements were met, which they were.

Posted by Chris, PhD on 2012-09-11 11:00:34

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