Poetry often surprises us by using familiar words in new ways -- and such is also the case with this cryptarithmetic puzzle -- offered by Evelyn Lamb in her AMS page-a-day calendar for tomorrow, Election Day.
VOTES
+ VOTES
CHANGE
In this puzzle (which Lamb credits to Manan Shah at mathmisery.com) each letter represents a base ten digit, no letter represents more than one digit at a time and no digit can be paired with more than one letter. There are no leading zeroes; there are two solutions. While you are waiting for results from the November 3 US election, this puzzle can help you pass the time in a way that's FUN!
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