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Name + Name = Name... but what about numbers?

My challenge is for you (reader) to solve this puzzle, but you have to show your work.

Donald
+Gerald
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Robert

oh... and T=zero

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Originally posted by ErinR

My challenge is for you (reader) to solve this puzzle, but you have to show your work.
Here is one:

516485
297485
713970

t=0 means d=5.

d+g must be less then 10, leaves for g {1,2,3,4}...

o has to be 1, because it appears in same row in solution and maximum take-over is 1 in this addition (the numbers before are different, leaving maximum of 9+8=17, which can be brought only to 18 with the identical number from row before).

that makes e=9.

n+r has be larger 10, so that the o can come from o+e. leaves for n+r {2 8, 3 8, 6 8, 7 8, 3 7, 6 7, 8 7, 7 6, 8 6} because 9, 5, 4 and 1 are gone. the only allowed sums of these are 13 = {6 7, 7 6}, because the others sum up to either 10, 11, 15 or 14.

14 is not possible, because a=4, because e=9.

that means b=3.

that leaves 7 for r, because 5+g and g can not be 1, only 2.

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damn...dont get this hidden to work...

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tharkesh, u took the numbers right out of my keyboard! lol

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Originally posted by tharkesh
damn...dont get this hidden to work...
unlike other formatting commands
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narf...

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just practicing...

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new lines maybe


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narf...

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iamstupid

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YES!

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*sings*I can hide messages, I can hide messages, but still afraid of spaces...

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Very Good job!