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Cryptography
In Cryptography teasers, a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way (frequently by replacing letters with other letters). You need to figure out the encoding method and then decode the message to find the answer.Cryptography
In Column-I below, are given some words. These have been translated into a code language. The code equivalents of the words in Column-I are given in Column-II, not necessarily in the corresponding positions. Also, the codes for the different letters in each word have not been given in the same order as these letters occur in the original word.
COLUMN-I
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DELIBERATION
CONSIDERATE
GHOSTLIKE
WORLDLY
KNOWLEDGE
ROCKET
COLUMN-II
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aemrqs
ccehlmo
cfhmoqqrx
cdgmqrsxz
adefmopqqsz
cefkmopqqszz
Can you decode the individual letter codes?
COLUMN-I
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DELIBERATION
CONSIDERATE
GHOSTLIKE
WORLDLY
KNOWLEDGE
ROCKET
COLUMN-II
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aemrqs
ccehlmo
cfhmoqqrx
cdgmqrsxz
adefmopqqsz
cefkmopqqszz
Can you decode the individual letter codes?
Answer
We first find the exact codes of the each given words.DELIBERATION is a 12-letter word. So its code is cefkmopqqszz.
CONSIDERATE is a 11-letter word. So its code is adefmopqqsz.
GHOSTLIKE and KNOWLEDGE both are 9-letter words. But KNOWLEDGE has 2 E's and so its code is cfhmoqqrx and hence the code for GHOSTLIKE is cdgmqrsxz.
WORLDLY is a 7-letter word. So its code is ccehlmo.
ROCKET is a 6-letter word. So its code is aemrqs.
Thus, the words and their codes are:
DELIBERATION--- cefkmopqqszz
CONSIDERATE ---- adefmopqqsz
GHOSTLIKE --------cdgmqrsxz
WORLDLY ---------ccehlmo
KNOWLEDGE ------cfhmoqqrx
ROCKET -------------aemrqs
The common letter in the given words is O and the common code letter is m. So m stands for O.
In GHOSTLIKE and WORLDLY, the other common code letter c stands for L.
In WORLDLY and ROCKET, the other common code letter e stands for R.
In DELIBERATION and WORLDLY, the remaining common code letter (other than c, e and m) o stands for D.
Working similarly, we get a-C, c-L, d-S, e-R, f-N, g-H, h-W, k-B, l-Y, m-O, o-D, p-A, q-E, r-K, s-T, x-G, z-I
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