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The ALPHANUMERIC PUZZLE was designed with the logical puzzle
enthusiast in mind.
Each puzzle has a theme, and should take around 30 minute
of uninterrupted solving.
However, if wrong assumptions are made, some backtracking
would be required.
Each letter of the alphabet is assigned a number from 1 to
26, but the number given to only one
letter is disclosed. The letters of the words are
transcribed into these numbers, and the resulting
sequence of digits for each word is entered into a grid in
a straight line, which can be vertical,
horizontal, or diagonal, and the sequence may appear either
forwards or backwards.
The digits representing one word may not share more than
one digit with another word;
thus, no sequence may be contained nor partially contained
within another, except for one digit.
The most popular grid sizes are 14*14 and 16*16 which use
20 and 24 words respectively.
The puzzle is to find the number assigned to one particular
letter, which does not appear in any of the words:
it is necessary to deduce
the numbers assigned to the other 25 letters before the puzzle can be solved:
there is only one solution to an Alphanumeric Puzzle.
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(Text above first published in MAGIGRAM March 1993 Vol.25 No.7 p31)
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