SOLUTION: Each letter in the puzzle below represents a different digit. All digits in NINE are odd. What is the least possible value of NINE? FOUR + FIVE NINE

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Question 257924: Each letter in the puzzle below represents a different digit. All digits in NINE are odd. What is the least possible value of NINE?
FOUR
+ FIVE
NINE
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
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The smallest FIVE can be is 5153 like this

 2980
+2173  
-----
 5153 

or we can swap the 8 and 7 and get the same thing.
I know of no way but trial and error.  You can see right
off that R=0 and O=9 and that we carry 1 to the leftmost
two columns.  Then we try N to be 1 making N=3, and
that ends up a failure. So we try F=2 making N=5, and
succeed with I as small as it can be, 1.

Edwin