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A missing proverb (Posted on 2014-01-09)

Solve the alphametics:

words * war = actions

and complete the following phrase:

(-)23u870 (-) 23470 (-) 2340e (-) (-)23u870 (-) 02347.

each (-) .... Represents a short missing word.

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Puzzle Solution

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The alphametic:

words * war = actions

has the following assignment:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

i w o r a t d n c s

Then, the given alphametic solves as:

23470 * 254 = 5961380

The structure of the coded phrase thus becomes:

(-) wounds (-) words (-) worse (-) wounds (-) sword

Now, checking on well-known proverbs, in accordance with the problem title, we can discern that this corresponds to:

"The wounds from words are worse than the wounds from sword", which is the required missing proverb.

Edited on March 3, 2022, 5:51 am

Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-03-03 01:05:43

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