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Twisted TALES (Posted on 2010-03-20) Difficulty: 3 of 5
The letters of TALES have been added to the grid to form six words, one being a lingual import into English.

L E A S T
S L A T E
S T A L E
S T E A L
T A E L S
T A L E S

Assign a base 10 digit to each of the letters in the grid to create an alphametic so that each row but one forms a 5-digit prime number.

This situation can occur in three ways, and logic should prevail.

  Submitted by brianjn    
Rating: 5.0000 (1 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
I did derived 3 solutions within my spreadsheet. I did attempt to cycle the respective valid digits from the lowest 5-digit number to the highest. Very clearly I omitted some combination swaps.

At Computer Solution Charlie's offers 9 values for LEAST:
 37612
 41539
 51439
 53791
 79813
 73019
 79031
 87613
 97213
Putting the values Charlie presented for LEAST into my spreadsheet confirms that my spreadsheet was correct but I was not diligent enough with my swapping of values.

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  Subject Author Date
Some ThoughtsPuzzle ThoughtsK Sengupta2023-12-22 22:02:09
Some Thoughtsre(2): Tales revisitedAdy TZIDON2010-03-21 17:58:51
re(2): computer solutionCharlie2010-03-21 14:26:08
re: Tales revisitedbrianjn2010-03-21 09:55:17
QuestionTales revisitedAdy TZIDON2010-03-21 05:35:50
re: computer solutionDej Mar2010-03-21 02:01:47
re: computer solutionbrianjn2010-03-20 23:12:22
Solutioncomputer solutionCharlie2010-03-20 13:59:49
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