Delta-K,  Teaching Ideas,  Volume 18, Issue 4

What’s in a Cryptarithm

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 18 Issue 4, May 1979

4 – 8

What’s in a Cryptarithm

William J. Bruce

Cryptarithms have been around for a long time, but for most people they have been little more than a superficial exercise in trial and error problem solving. Invariably these have been additive. By use of an example, the problem may be stated as follows: