24793*790=19586470
Find the 1 to 1 matching between the set of digits
(1,2,3,... 0) and 10 letters of English ABC to create an alphametic puzzle with the bolded unique solution above.
— It is definitely a D4 task involving a computer program and a quite extended database of valid words.
However it is my visceral feeling that some of you will find a logical solution “sans software” just by trusting my statement that it can be done!
Please don’t ail your brain - rely on your common sense.
In the final (5th) paragraph, the puzzle author states that a logical solution can be found just by "trusting" his statement that it can be done.
We now observe that the word "visceral" in the 4th paragraph and the words "brain" and "ail" appear in the 5th paragraph.
Accordingly, in consonance with the foregoing:
BRAIN*AIL = VISCERAL
seems to be the desired resolution.
Now checking with an online solver, we note that
BRAIN*AIL = VISCERAL
indeed gives:
B R A I N L V S C E
2 4 7 9 3 0 1 5 8 6
Consequently, BRAIN*AIL=VISCERAL is the required solution to this reverse alphametic puzzle.
Edited on July 25, 2022, 12:30 am
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