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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $95$
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- The word BEESWAX represents a number in a criminal's secret code,
- but the police had no clue until they discovered among his papers the following sum:
E A S E B S B S X B P W W K S E T Q ------------------ K P E P W E K K Q
- The detectives assumed that it was an addition sum, and utterly failed to solve it.
- Then one man hit on the brilliant idea that perhaps it was a case of subtraction.
- This proved to be correct, and by substituting a different figure for each letter, so that it worked out correctly,
- they obtained the secret code.
- What number does BEESWAX represent?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Digital Puzzles: $95$. -- Beeswax
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Cryptarithm Puzzles: $155$. Beeswax