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Closest to two dozens (Posted on 2024-04-24) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Remember “Unique and restricted” ? ,b (pid=13696)
There I have asked for a restricted answer to an alphametic puzzle and got a set of many words.

Now I have fiddled with a similar equation and again will allow only answers not using any of the letters appearing in “TWELVE”.

TWELVE + TWELVE = (Oompha, grubby, payoff, droppy ….et al)

Your task is to find an answer to my puzzle such that adding the numerical values of all 6 letters in the word chosen by you (a long list of candidate solutions) will be closest to 24.

Start your chase.
Good luck!

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re: @ Charlie & Larry | Comment 10 of 20 |
(In reply to @ Charlie & Larry by Ady TZIDON)

The table below is proof that no unique combination of letters will lead to a sod of 24 for the "other word". If a word has a pattern that does not match the pattern of one of the listed "other word" numerics, it is either not part of any solution or is part of more than one "solution". If a word has a pattern matching one of these given below, then that is unique. The sods are as shown for all the unique patterns of numbers, and all word patterns have to be associated with one of these patterns to be unique.


      TWELVE      other     sod(other word)
                  word          

      167927      335854          28
      172692      345384          27
      192672      385344          27
      267917      535834          28
      307827      615654          27
      327807      655614          27
      354614      709228          28
      385645      771290          26
      451861      903722          23
      453813      907626          30
      569209     1138418          26
      679429     1358858          38
      723093     1446186          30
      732092     1464184          28
      769429     1538858          38
      923073     1846146          30

  Posted by Charlie on 2024-04-25 18:00:52
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