Can AI Crack the Code? 🧩🤖

Today, my colleague challenged me with a cryptarithm, a type of mathematical puzzle where letters represent digits, and asked how I would solve it. My answer? I’d ask ChatGPT! 😄

The Puzzle

I was given the following problem:

SATURN+URANUS=JUPITER

🔢 Rules:

• Each letter represents a unique digit (0-9).
• No two letters can have the same digit.
• The numbers should be interpreted as normal base-10 integers.
• Leading digits cannot be zero (i.e., S,U,S, U,S,U, and JJJ must be nonzero).

The challenge? Find the correct digit assignment that makes the equation true.

AI to the Rescue 🚀

Instead of typing the whole problem manually, I simply uploaded a screenshot of the puzzle to ChatGPT 4o and asked it to solve it for me.

🔹 First attempt? ChatGPT 4o struggled to find the correct answer.

🔹 Plan B: I asked ChatGPT to generate a better prompt for me instead.

With this refined prompt, I switched to o3-mini-high, which quickly wrote a Python script to solve the puzzle. I ran the script, and BOOM! The solution was correct on the first try! 🎯

Just to be sure, I asked ChatGPT to validate the result. The response?

👉 "Nice work!" 😄

Takeaways from Today’s Experiment

1️⃣ AI is great at solving problems, but sometimes, asking the right question is even more important.

2️⃣ Different AI models have different strengths—knowing when to switch can make a big difference.

3️⃣ Automation and AI-assisted problem-solving are becoming second nature—why spend time manually solving puzzles when you can code a solution in seconds?

Want to give it a shot? Try solving the puzzle yourself before checking my solution! Let me know your answer in the comments. ⬇️

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