The standard form of this puzzle type is a list of words, along with their values in a cipher which applies a different value from 1 to 26 to each letter of the alphabet, and adds up the values of the letters in each word. It's similar to an alphametic but there's no interaction of place value, and usually the whole alphabet is used. In the version called letter weights, only a portion of teh alphabet is used.
Also called: alphacode, letter weights puzzle
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MIT Mystery Hunt 1994 22
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