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Enigma No. 1525

By Susan Denham

17 December 2008

Hark the Herald Angels

I HAVE numbered the letters of the alphabet from 1 to 26, but not in alphabetical order. So each letter has its unique value, and given any word I can work out its value by adding up the values of its letters. For example, THAT has value 96.

Now I have worked out the values of the words HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING and I have found that all five values are the same.

What is that common value?

£15 will go to the sender of the first correct answer opened on 28 January. The Editor’s…

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