Monday Madness

How's about a Christmas riddle.

Please substitute a numeral for each letter to make the following equation true:

SANTA
CLAUS
_XMAS

24794
16452
_8342

haven't done any calcs myself, but i got a feeling this is one of the times there's a lot of correct answers to the equation.

Don't know if there are others that would work. The way I went about it was A had to be 2x S. A also had to be smaller than L. T had to be bigger than U by whatever number was used for A. S had to be 1 bigger than C. It kinda fell into place.

my one and only attempt at using 3 for s, 36,806 27,643 9,163 so yep more than 1 answer, now just a question of finding the one tomk wants i think. won't work out all the possibilities yet, but might later in the week, or write a script to work them out for me.

Probably are, especially if you through 0 into the mix. I stopped after using 4 for A.

I don't know if there are "alot" of correct answers… but there are several.

Here is another one:

62402
59276
3126

There may be more but these are the three I know of. Thought this might give multiple people a chance to arrive at a correct response.


Well done oldman960 for being the first correct answer.

terry1966 gets first runner up this week.

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Ginerbread Man looks like he's got a bad rash of some kind. So I guess terry1966 gets that cookie.