ALPHAMETIC PUZZLES An alphametic puzzle is an arithmetic problem involving words where there is a oneto-one swapping between letters and digits that makes the arithmetic correct. These puzzles are also called cryptorithms. In the example below, you can see that the phrase ‘days too short’ becomes an arithmetic algorithm. (Addition is used.) D + H
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