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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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Solution computer solution | Comment 1 of 20
A variation on the Unique and Restricted program:

clearvars,clc

digs='0123456789';
idx=combinator(10,5,'p');
codes=digs(idx);
i=1;
while i<length(codes)
  code=codes(i,:);
  if code(1)=='0'
    codes(i,:)=[];
  else
    i=i+1;
  end
end

% Now form:
% vList -- values of valid double twelves
% pList -- corresponding patterns (codes) for dbl twelves
% dList -- 1 if pattern is one of a duplicate (or multiple) set

% these lists are all the same length and refer to the
%   same coding of TWELVE.

vList=[]; pList=string.empty; dList=[];

% codes will be ordered lists of 4 digits
%   representing t, w, e,l,v
lets='twelv'; ii=0;
for i=1:length(codes)
  code=codes(i,:);
  ns='twelve';
  for j=1:5
    ns=strrep(ns,lets(j),code(j));
  end
  n=str2double(ns);
  v=2*n;
  vs=char(string(v));  
  tst=setdiff(ns,vs);
  % eleven + eleven  must contain no digits from eleven
  if length(tst)==5
    ii=ii+1;
    vList(ii)=v;
    p=string(pttrn([ns vs]));
    if ismember(p,pList)
      dList(find(pList==p))=1;
      dList(ii)=1;
    end
    pList(ii)=p;      
  end  
end

% create a list of patterns with unique numbers
% (if TWELVE is unique then so is twice that value)
goodSubs=find(dList==0);
goodPats=pList(goodSubs);
 
goal=23;

ct=0; pat12=pttrn('twelve');
fid=fopen('c:\words\words.txt','r');
while ~feof(fid)
  w=lower(fgetl(fid));
  if (length(w)==6 || length(w)==7) ...
      && isequal(w,lower(w)) 
    if length(setdiff('twelv',w))==5
      if length(unique(w))<7
        ct=ct+1;
        codePat=pttrn(['twelve' w]);
        if ismember(codePat,goodPats)
          pf=goodPats==codePat;
          sb=find(pf);
          sb=goodSubs(sb);
          matchNum=vList(sb);  
          for i=1:length(matchNum)
            if sod(matchNum(i))==goal
              matchNum(1)=matchNum(i);
            end
          end
          if sod(matchNum(1))==goal
          fprintf('%s %d %d %d %d\n',w,matchNum(1),matchNum(1)/2,sod(matchNum(1)),length(matchNum))
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end
fclose('all');

 
function cd=pttrn(n)
  rp='a';
  ns=char(string(n));
  repl=repmat(' ',1,length(ns));
  for i=1:length(ns)
    if repl(i)==' '
      ix=strfind(ns,ns(i));
      repl(ix)=rp;
      rp=char(rp+1);
    end
  end
  cd=repl;  
end

The line

goal=23;

replaces one where goal was 24, as nothing was found for that.

For 23:

         sum  TWELVE sod

across 903722 451861 23 1
burgoo 903722 451861 23 1
bypass 903722 451861 23 1
cashoo 903722 451861 23 1
congii 903722 451861 23 1
goniff 903722 451861 23 1
kaross 903722 451861 23 1
kumiss 903722 451861 23 1
misadd 903722 451861 23 1
morass 903722 451861 23 1
payoff 903722 451861 23 1
ripoff 903722 451861 23 1
ruboff 903722 451861 23 1
runoff 903722 451861 23 1
scruff 903722 451861 23 1
shroff 903722 451861 23 1
skidoo 903722 451861 23 1
cruyff 903722 451861 23 1
hindoo 903722 451861 23 1
johann 903722 451861 23 1

So

TWELVE         451861
TWELVE         451861
------         ------
ACROSS         903722


  Posted by Charlie on 2024-04-24 18:25:50
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