The puzzle was among a box of puzzle magazines we picked up at a garage
sale.
Yes, each letter stands for a digit. Singletons are numbers less than
10. I had not thought to read it. Had I made the puzzle I'd have used
A-J or a word.
Purposes for writing yesterday's puzzle solution--
Encourage Henry of an active audience trying the latest release.
Practice exposition to enhance my left/right brain connections.
Happy November. In 2009 I wrote a Sudoku solver and puzzle generator
(in python)
print in fixed width font.
Clue: hardest polygons.
| L | T
|G |
| |N I
-----+-----+-----
|T |R A
G| R|S I N
S | |L
-----+-----+-----
T E| R | L
A | G | R
I L|A |
Gratuitous conjunction used in to construct the puzzle as shown,
provided to meet programming forum rules
NB. Substitute in y from n to m
Substitute=: 2 : '(n,y) {~ (m,y) i. y'
>Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 19:59:58 +0000
>From: "'Michael Day' via Programming" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] typical use "beta-j okay"
>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>
>Thanks, David
>
>Why these singletons and pairs of letters?
>It looks as if some permutation of the 4x4 square of letter groups might
>form words across and down. Then again, perhaps not, given pv and nx
>and that there are only 3 solo (semi)vowels!
>
>Mike
>
>On 01/11/2020 17:17, David Lambert wrote:
>> NB. puzzle: substitute the digits 0-9 for the the letters
>> NB. to form a magic square of sum 99
>>
>> NB. (published puzzle hinted that y is 8 should you try it with
>> pen and paper)
>>
>> _4 [\ ;:'ph h ne th na tc he e pn nx y pp a pt pv nc'
>> ┌──┬──┬──┬──┐
>> │ph│h │ne│th│
>> ├──┼──┼──┼──┤
>> │na│tc│he│e │
>> ├──┼──┼──┼──┤
>> │pn│nx│y │pp│
>> ├──┼──┼──┼──┤
>> │a │pt│pv│nc│
>> └──┴──┴──┴──┘
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