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Cryptarithms
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level 
Try to think about the biggest or smallest numbers you could add together in each case.
Does that tell you anything about the digits of the number that they sum to ?
If you add two $2$ digit numbers together to make a $3$ digit number, what could the first digit of the answer be?
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