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A streetcar named Enigma (Posted on 2010-02-10)

Two years ago, traveling with my friend (a logic wiz) I have purchased two streetcar tickets, consecutively numbered. I told my friend that the sum of all ten digits equals 62, which was his age. He than asked me whether the sum of digits (s.o.d) of either of the tickets equals my age (which he knew) and upon getting my answer quoted exactly both 5-digit numbers.

What were the numbers?
Am I over 50 today?

Submitted by Ady TZIDON

Rating: 4.6667 (3 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

Ans: 98999 and 99000- These two numbers sum up to 62 and 18.

Other pairs of numbers have 27-35 as the sums of digits.

Both the wiz and you, the solver, still don't know my age.

You know I am under 50, (18, 27, 35 or 44).
Confer other posts, especially Charley's.

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Answer	K Sengupta	2023-09-20 21:57:33
Solution, no computer	John zadeh	2010-04-27 14:40:23
re(3): computer solution REMARK	Ady TZIDON	2010-03-03 11:31:09
re(2): computer solution REMARK	Charlie	2010-02-28 12:21:15
re: computer solution REMARK	Ady TZIDON	2010-02-28 09:06:34
re: almost empiric solution	Elisabeth	2010-02-12 14:11:25
re(2): almost empiric solution	Elisabeth	2010-02-12 14:08:37
re: almost empiric solution	Ady TZIDON	2010-02-10 21:06:50
re: computer solution	Ady TZIDON	2010-02-10 18:40:41
computer solution	Charlie	2010-02-10 14:13:17
almost empiric solution	Elisabeth	2010-02-10 13:24:52

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