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Perplexing Dual Vowels (Posted on 2009-03-13) Difficulty: 4 of 5
The two tables represent two scenarios of the same problem.

All Alphanumeric Values
Tot
V 20
C 92
I U E O O
E E A O A
C 70
V 15
40 54 37 42 24
Vowels from 1 to 5
Tot
V 6
C 92
I U E O O
E E A O A
C 70
V 6
37 43 34 36 24

Add ten consonants [orange] to form five 4-letter words vertically of the structure CVVC.

When some vowels are added appropriately [yellow], the orange and yellow cells, when read in a left to right manner form a sentence which has some relevance to the title. Such vowels precede the consonants to which they are vertically paired in the table. Of those vowels only one is duplicated.

In the first table all letters are valued A-Z from 1 to 26. In the second table the vowels have ascending values from 1 to 5.

The green cells represent the column sums of values of all absent letters.

What is the sentence?

On reading cell order of sentence. If the first two vowels occur in the second and fourth yellow cells the sentence would begin CVCCVC.

  Submitted by brianjn    
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Solution: (Hide)
My original solution was to present a "copy" of the spreadsheet table which I used to build the problem, viz:
    O  E
 P  S  R  S  T
 I  U  E  O  O
 E  E  A  O  A
 S  T  M  N  D
 E     A  I
Prior to this being made public Dej Mar quite properly queried that I had a legitimate solution. From our exchange where he was assured that was so he has provided a better insight into the problem's solution than the mere offering which I have above; please read it.

Comments: ( You must be logged in to post comments.)
  Subject Author Date
Some ThoughtsPuzzle ThoughtsK Sengupta2023-04-20 00:11:09
re: about the sentencebrianjn2009-03-14 22:34:59
Some Thoughtsabout the sentenceDaniel2009-03-14 12:38:05
re: Solutionbrianjn2009-03-14 09:51:14
re(2): A computerized startCharlie2009-03-13 18:27:35
SolutionSolutionDej Mar2009-03-13 18:00:14
re: A computerized startDej Mar2009-03-13 17:41:25
Some Thoughtsre: A computerized startCharlie2009-03-13 13:18:41
Hints/TipsA computerized startCharlie2009-03-13 12:59:54
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