Anton Pavlis of Guelph, Ontario, devised this monstrous alphametic, which has 41 addends. If each letter consistently stands for a particular digit, what sum does this expression denote?
SO MANY MORE MEN SEEM TO SAY THAT THEY MAY SOON TRY TO STAY AT HOME SO AS TO SEE OR HEAR THE SAME ONE MAN TRY TO MEET THE TEAM ON THE MOON AS HE HAS AT THE OTHER + TEN ----- TESTS
Don’t even try to solve it — here’s the answer:
31 2764 2180 206 3002 91 374 9579 9504 274 3116 984 91 3974 79 5120 31 73 91 300 18 5078 950 3720 160 276 984 91 2009 950 9072 16 950 2116 73 50 573 79 950 19508 + 906 ----- 90393
(From the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, via Crux Mathematicorum, April 1983.)