Letter Coding: Shifting the Alphabet Quiz — 5 Free Questions

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In a certain code, every letter of a word is replaced by the letter that comes a fixed number of positions later in the alphabet, wrapping around from Z back to A when needed. For example, with a shift of 2, A becomes C, B becomes D, Y becomes A, and Z becomes B. Each question below states the shift being used and gives either a plain word to encode or a coded word to decode using that same shift.

Question 1

If the shift is 8, how is the word CROW written in this code?

Question 2

Consider a code in which each letter is shifted 3 positions later in the alphabet, wrapping from Z to A. Statements: I. Under this code, DOG is written as GRJ. II. Under this code, CAT is written as FDW. III. Under this code, decoding the word HQG gives END. Which of the statements is/are true?

Question 3

If the shift is 6, how is the word LAMP written in this code?

Question 4

If the shift is 16, and a word is coded as CYBA, what is the original word?

Question 5

If the shift is 6, how is the word SNAKE written in this code?

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About Letter Coding: Shifting the Alphabet

CLAT's Logical Reasoning section includes letter-coding puzzles: each letter of a word is shifted a fixed number of places through the alphabet to produce a coded word, and each question asks you to encode a plain word or decode a coded one using a stated shift -- no outside knowledge is needed beyond the coding rule given up front.

This quiz is built around one fixed coding rule, given once. Every question below states its own shift and word, so each can be worked out entirely on its own with simple alphabet-position arithmetic.

The twenty questions mix encoding a plain word into its coded form and decoding a coded word back into a real word, using shifts of varying sizes, including ones that wrap around from Z back to A.

Only five of the twenty questions are shown on any single attempt, so replaying this quiz brings a genuinely different mix of shifts and words rather than the same five memorised by rote.