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Twisted TALES (Posted on 2010-03-20)

The letters of TALES have been added to the grid to form six words, one being a lingual import into English.

L	E	A	S	T
S	L	A	T	E
S	T	A	L	E
S	T	E	A	L
T	A	E	L	S
T	A	L	E	S

Assign a base 10 digit to each of the letters in the grid to create an alphametic so that each row but one forms a 5-digit prime number.

This situation can occur in three ways, and logic should prevail.

Submitted by brianjn

Rating: 5.0000 (1 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

I did derived 3 solutions within my spreadsheet. I did attempt to cycle the respective valid digits from the lowest 5-digit number to the highest. Very clearly I omitted some combination swaps.

At Computer Solution Charlie's offers 9 values for LEAST:
37612 41539 51439 53791 79813 73019 79031 87613 97213
Putting the values Charlie presented for LEAST into my spreadsheet confirms that my spreadsheet was correct but I was not diligent enough with my swapping of values.

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2023-12-22 22:02:09
re(2): Tales revisited	Ady TZIDON	2010-03-21 17:58:51
re(2): computer solution	Charlie	2010-03-21 14:26:08
re: Tales revisited	brianjn	2010-03-21 09:55:17
Tales revisited	Ady TZIDON	2010-03-21 05:35:50
re: computer solution	Dej Mar	2010-03-21 02:01:47
re: computer solution	brianjn	2010-03-20 23:12:22
computer solution	Charlie	2010-03-20 13:59:49

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