Editing Verbal arithmetic (section)

==History== 
'''Cryptarithmic''' puzzles are quite old and their inventor is unknown. An 1864 example in The American Agriculturist<ref name="agriculturist">{{Cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/americanagricult23unse#page/349/mode/1up|title=No. 109 Mathematical puzzle|date=December 1864|newspaper=American Agriculturist|issue=12|volume=23|pages=349}}
</ref> disproves the popular notion that it was invented by [[Sam Loyd]].  The name "cryptarithm" was coined by puzzlist Minos (pseudonym of [[Simon Vatriquant]]) in the May 1931 issue of Sphinx, a Belgian magazine of recreational mathematics, and was translated as "cryptarithmetic" by [[Maurice Kraitchik]] in 1942.<ref>[[Maurice Kraitchik]], Mathematical Recreations (1953), pp. 79-80.</ref>  In 1955, J. A. H. Hunter introduced the word "alphametic" to designate cryptarithms, such as Dudeney's, whose letters form meaningful [[word]]s or phrases.<ref>J. A. H. Hunter, in the [[Toronto]] ''Globe and Mail'' (27 October 1955), p. 27.</ref>