An alphametic is a type of word puzzle where the letters of words or phrases are replaced by digits and mathematical operations must be performed to solve the puzzle. One example of such a puzzle is the equation:
SEND
+ MORE
= MONEY
To solve this puzzle, we can start by assigning each letter a unique digit from 0 to 9. Since we know that no leading digit of any number can be 0, we can assign S = 9, M = 1 and E = 0, N = 8, D = 7, Y = 6 and O = 2, R = 4.
With these assignments, we can now substitute the digits back into the equation and get:
9567 + 1085 = 10652
And we can see that this equation is true, and the solution to the alphametic is S = 9, E = 0, N = 8, D = 7, M = 1, O = 2, R = 4, Y = 6