Showing posts with label Manan Shah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manan Shah. Show all posts

Monday, November 2, 2020

Voting is on the calendar!

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!