Fps: puzzle 1

[FlameBlade]

[Eliahad]

Do you have 2 y's on purpose?

[edit: Oh I imagine you do.

[Mike]

[Eliahad]

Pete! I want to know what you did to get a point. I tried letter substitutions and a lot of different things. I even made a list of the numbers 1-26 and which ones were used and weren't. I spelled a couple of words...but my total was 10 more than the correct summation. I couldn't figure out the left to right series.

[FlameBlade]

Yes, simple A-Z to 1-26 substitution here. Just need to figure out how to make it work. The difference between this puzzle and others is that it requires some elbow grease.

[poorpete]

So here was my guess that I got 1 point for:

Ah well, All the columns add up to the number at the bottom.
Then I wondered if wxyz, just like the letters, were numbers that were in order
aka
x = w+1
y = w+2, x+1
z = w+3, x+2, y+1
so I did
w + x + y + y + z = 53
(n+0)+(n+1)+(n+2)+(n+2)+(n+3)=53
5n + 8 = 53
5n = 45
n=9
so
w = 9 (n+0)
x = 10 (n +1)
y = 11 (n+2)
z = 12 (n+3)

I got a point for understanding that the columns add up and so w + x + y + y + z = 53
but I think I'm wrong about the z = w+3, x+2, y+1 thing.