| Article ID: | iaor20164392 |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 39 |
| End Page Number: | 41 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2016 |
| Journal: | INFORMS Transactions on Education |
| Authors: | Simon John T |
| Keywords: | programming: integer, education, combinatorial optimization |
Verbal arithmetic (also known as cryptarithmetic) problems and a numerical version of the game Mastermind are both solvable as integer programs. This article describes these puzzles and develops an integer programming model and an Excel based implementation for each of them.