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!

(In reply to re: re 24 by Ady TZIDON)

The observations are independent of English words. Even if English words exemplified every conceivable pattern of letters, no set of numbers matching ABCDEC + ABCDEC = (any pattern of 6 or 7 not containing any of A,B,C,D,E) exists. That is, all such integer additions that are valid will duplicate the pattern of another set.

Posted by Charlie on 2024-04-28 07:38:01