Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
From: Dan Hoey <haoyuep@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:04:51 -0400
Subject: Re: Enigma 1499 - Not quite right

Chappy wrote:
> Dan Hoey wrote:
>> I guess the printer left a letter out before "NOT"....

> There is also a solution that replaces one letter with
> another letter (no omitted or added letters), although
> it produces the same value for QUITE that you got.

My exhaustive search for such solutions agrees with Ilan
Mayer that only one such replacement has a unique
solution (with the extra clues).  I also verified that all
the extra clues are necessary to produce uniqueness.

I don't have any basis to prefer either "INOT" or "REGHT"
over the other as a pseudo-word.  While there is an Inot
River in Romania, most Google hits seem to arise from
typos of "INTO".  "REGHT" yields a surprising number of
hits as a typo in the song title "Relight my fire".  It
is also a surname, and appears in the OED as an obsolete
form of the word "RIGHT".  Neither seems to be a
contemporary non-capitalized word.

Perhaps Susan Denham intended this ambiguity, since she
asks only for the value of QUITE.

Dan Hoey
haoyuep at aol.com