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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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The patterns (combined TWELVE and "other word") may occur for more than one valid addition (ones where no digit in the sum matches any in TWELVE). The numbers for each set are:

abcdec   ffggfhg  3
abcdec    ffgghg  6
abcdec   ffgghig  1
abcdec   ffghfhh  4
abcdec   ffghfih  2
abcdec    ffghgi  1
abcdec   ffghhfh  2
abcdec    ffghhg  3
abcdec   ffghifh  1
abcdec    ffghig  5
abcdec   ffghihh  1
abcdec    ffghij  1
abcdec    fgfhgf  8
abcdec    fgfhgi  1
abcdec   fgfhgih  2
abcdec    fgfhhf  8
abcdec   fgfhhfh  2
abcdec   fgfhhih  2
abcdec    fgfhif  6
abcdec   fgfhifh  3
abcdec    fgfhij  2
abcdec   fgfhijh  4
abcdec    fggfhi  1
abcdec   fgghfhh  2
abcdec   fgghfih  1
abcdec    fgghig  4
abcdec    fgghij  2
abcdec    fghfhi  1
abcdec    fghfig  1
abcdec    fghfii  1
abcdec    fghgfh  3
abcdec   fghgfhg  2
abcdec   fghgfig  1
abcdec    fghgih  3
abcdec   fghhfih  2
abcdec    fghhgh  6
abcdec    fghhih  4
abcdec   fghiffi  2
abcdec    fghifh  3
abcdec   fghifhi  1
abcdec   fghifii  3
abcdec   fghifji  2
abcdec   fghigfi  2
abcdec    fghigh  9
abcdec    fghigj  2
abcdec    fghihh  4
abcdec    fghihj  3
abcdec   fghiifi  4
abcdec   fghiigi  1
abcdec    fghiih  8
abcdec   fghiihi  1
abcdec    fghiij  1
abcdec   fghijfi  4
abcdec    fghijg  2
abcdec    fghijh  6
abcdec   fghijhi  2
abcdec    fghiji  1
abcdec    fghijj  1
abcdec   fghijji  2
Only the ones that have a 1 are useable for an alphametic.

Edited on April 26, 2024, 6:56 am
  Posted by Charlie on 2024-04-25 21:48:42

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