SumHunt
Spell your way to a number
Play today →
SumHunt
Daily puzzle · target 18. This puzzle has closed — today’s is here.
The clue
What gets thrown in along with everything else, less what a dull marriage is told to add.
The rack
Eighteen tiles were on the board. Every letter is worth its place in the alphabet, A = 1 to Z = 26.
E5C3O15M13H8K11N14E5S19T20I9E5S19I9P16N14R18C3
The answer
2 words, hitting 18 exactly: KITCHEN SPICE.
K11I9T20C3H8E5N14= 70
−S19P16I9C3E5= 52
KITCHEN 70 − SPICE 52 = 18. SumHunt reads left to right, so there is no operator precedence to trip over.