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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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a little more concrete | Comment 11 of 20 |
 In the below list, the lines with TWELVE, other word, sod(TWELVE), sod(other word) are each followed by an example. In each case, any word used as an answer line can be replaced by another with the same pattern. These are all the sods there are that give unique numbers, i.e., that have unique solutions.

If a line is not followed by an example, my word list merely doesn't have a word that exemplifies the given solution. But the numeric solution list is complete; no other number sets have unique  patterns.

      167927      335854          32          28
      172692      345384          27          27
 twelve
 twelve
-------
 cancha
 
      192672      385344          27          27
 twelve
 twelve
-------
 admass
 
      267917      535834          32          28
 twelve
 twelve
-------
 babkas
 
      307827      615654          27          27
 twelve
 twelve
-------
 audads
 
      327807      655614          27          27
 twelve
 twelve
-------
 abbacy
 
      354614      709228          23          28
 twelve
 twelve
-------
 bazoos
 
      385645      771290          31          26
 twelve
 twelve
-------
 aahing
 
      451861      903722          25          23
 twelve
 twelve
-------
 across
 
      453813      907626          24          30
 twelve
 twelve
-------
 abysms
 
      569209     1138418          31          26
      679429     1358858          37          38
 twelve
 twelve
-------
Knossos
 
      723093     1446186          24          30
 twelve
 twelve
-------
cooncan
 
      732092     1464184          23          28
      769429     1538858          37          38
 twelve
 twelve
-------
koussos
 
      923073     1846146          24          30
 twelve
 twelve
-------
miasmas

  Posted by Charlie on 2024-04-25 18:54:13
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