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#1 Re: Help Me ! » number substitution puzzle » 2013-06-30 06:14:54

Thanks for that,

My Math is, (was) at degree level and my programing skills have been professional in the past but I would love to see an algorithm for this class of puzzle, as well as a manual process!

My question was, however, has anyone seen this particular puzzle in the public domain?

Thanks and best wishes,

#2 Help Me ! » number substitution puzzle » 2013-06-29 22:23:13

the feral ipod
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Hi all, I am new!

Some 50 years ago I made a puzzle as follows.

Given that characters take unique positive integer values, add together the three words below to give tha answer

    force
      feet
     secs
   power

given that there is no zero, what are the characters values.

Recently I "think" I found this puzzle somewhere unexpected, has is spread in all those years or did someone else create it independantly, quite likely really.

I would like to hear fromany oone with an HONEST statement of how long it takes to solve, it took me a LONG time back in them early 60's!

Best wishes

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