Teaser 2522: [Letter values]
From The Sunday Times, 23rd January 2011 [link] [link]
I have numbered the letters of the alphabet from 1 to 26, but not in alphabetical order, giving each letter its own unique value. So, for any word, I can work out its value by adding up the values of its letters. In this way, I have found some words with equal values. For example, the following nine words all have the same value:
I
SAY
ALL
THESE
HERE
HAVE
EQUAL
VALUES
TOOWhat are the values of Y, O, U, R, S?
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Jim Randell 9:08 am on 20 May 2025 Permalink |
Here is a straightforward solution using the [[
SubstitutedExpression]] solver from the enigma.py library.It runs in 356ms. (Internal runtime of the generated code is 206ms).
Solution: Y = 20; O = 10; U = 3; R = 8; S = 2.
The complete list of values determined are:
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