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Old 10-15-2002, 07:27 PM
lorinda lorinda is offline
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Default Re: I\'ll take a stab...

I messed up, but found an amazing solution anyway!!!!!!!!!

I accidentally missed subtituting one of the 9s for an E!!

So i was looking at

5oNAL5 +
G9RAL5 =
RoBER0

so, now it got interesting, of course I managed to miss my oversight, and continued....shouldnt be possible of course

from there:
L=3 or 8
if it is 3 then A can take ANY remaining value, so I tried L=8,then A can only be 6

giving

5oN685
197685 =
7oB370

and only 2 and 4 as my remaining values.
At this point I cried "Eureka" and came to post my answer to the trick question (letting o = 0) only to find pseudo's post with the correct answer, so my

504685 +
197685 =
702370

is sadly wrong, but it works for
DONALD + GERALD = ROBURT
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