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Daily puzzle · target 5840. This puzzle has closed — today’s is here.
The clue
Where the seated read the paper, times what the hill has and the barber sees.
The rack
Eighteen tiles were on the board. Every letter is worth its place in the alphabet, A = 1 to Z = 26.
R18N14H8C3T20R18E5O15E5C3R18O15Y25O15N14I9W23E5
The answer
2 words, hitting 5840 exactly: THRONE CROWN.
T20H8R18O15N14E5= 80
×C3R18O15W23N14= 73
THRONE 80 × CROWN 73 = 5840. SumHunt reads left to right, so there is no operator precedence to trip over.