CODING DECODING

There are primarily four types of questions in coding and decoding.

Type Details Example
Letters are rearranged to get the codes or they ●● TRAIN is coded as UQBHO
Letter to Letter
interchanged with other letters to get the codes ●● PRAWNS is coded as ARBSNW
●● PART is coded as 9126 and ROST is
Letters are replaced with random numbers or by coded as 2386
Letter to Number
place values of the letters ●● PEN is coded as 35 and TOY is coded
as 60
●● DAY is called NIGHT, NIGHT
Word to Word A whole word is replaced by another word is called DARK, DARK is called
BLACK, BLACK is called COLOUR
●● You are great is coded as 936 and
Word to Code Each word of phrase is replaced by a code
your are good is coded as 694

Notes: EJOTY that we learnt in series will be very useful in The coding is made as follow:
solving questions of letter coding. F R A N C E and C A N A D A
Letter E J O T Y N C E F R A A D A C A N
Place value 5 10 15 20 25
Similarly,
Example 1: If SPTFA stands for BLADE, how will you M E D I C I N E
code BALE?
C I N E M E D I
Explanation:
BLADE has been coded as SPTFA. You will see that all So, the code of MEDICINE will be coded as CINEMEDI.
letters in the word BALE, which have to be coded are also Example 5: If LODES is coded as 46321, then how will you
there in the word BLADE. Hence all that needs to be done code the word DOES?
is to choose the relevant code letters from the code word Explanation:
SPTFA. Thus B becomes S, A becomes T, L becomes P, and Here, you will observe that all the letters of DOES are
E becomes A. Therefore, BALE will be coded as STPA. included in the letters of LODES, for which you have the
code D = 3, O = 6, E = 2, S = 1. Therefore, DOES = 3621.
Example 2: If CEJQ is coded as XVQJ, then BDIP will be
Example 6: Driver = 7, Pedestrian = 11, then Accident = ?
coded as:
Explanation:
Explanation:
Count the number of letters in a word and add one to get the
The first 13 letters of the alphabet are coded by the 13 letters
coded number.
of the alphabet in reverse, i.e.
Example 7: If ‘ELTM’ is coded as ‘50’, then find the code
A B C D E F G H I J K L M for ‘YZNP’?
Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N Explanation:
Hence, B = Y, D = W, I = R and K = P or P = K The given code will be the addition of the position of letters
Therefore, B D I P will be coded as Y W R K. in forward alphabetical order. Let us see:
E = 5, T = 20, L = 12, M = 13
Example 3: If MAILED is coded as NBJMFE, then how
5 + 20 + 12 + 13 = 50
will you code the word ACTED?
Therefore, Y = 25, Z = 26, N = 14, P = 16
Explanation:
25 + 26 + 14 + 16 = 81
Here, each letter stands for the next letter in the sequence.
Example 8: If ‘ADHI’ is coded as ‘1489’, then find the code
A becomes B, B becomes C, D becomes E, and so on.
for ‘GIEC’?
Therefore, ACTED become B D U F E.
Explanation:
Example 4: If ‘FRANCE’ is coded as ‘NCEFRA’ and A, D, H and I have been replaced by their positions in
‘CANADA’ is coded as ‘ADACAN’, then how will you code forward alphabetical sequence. GIEC will be coded in the
‘MEDICINE’? same way. Let us see,
Explanation: A = 1, D = 4, H = 8, I = 9
The first half part is transferred after the second half part. Therefore, G = 7, I = 9, E = 5, C = 3.
Example 9: If ‘black’ is called ‘pink’, ‘pink’ is called ‘blue’,
’blue’ is called ‘brown’, ‘brown’ is called ‘orange’, ‘orange’
is called ‘violet’, ‘ violet’ is called ‘red’ and ‘red’ is called
‘black’, what is the colour of blood?
Explanation:
As the colour of blood is red and red is called black in the
given coded language. So, the colour of blood is black in the
given coded language.
Note: In the above question, first find the answer in English
and then the code of that word.
Example 10: In a certain code system ‘rbm std bro pus’
means ‘the cat is beautiful’, ‘tnh pus dim std’ means ‘the
dog is brown’, ‘pus dim bro pus cus’ means ‘the dog has the
cat’. What is the code for ʻhasʼ?
Explanation:
In the third statement , the code ‘pus’ occurs twice and the
word ‘the’ also occurs twice, So, ‘the’ means ‘pus’. Now
in the first and the third statement, the common word ‘pus’
stands for ‘the’. So, the other common word ‘bro’ stands
for the other common word ‘cat’. Similarly in the second
and the third statement the common word ‘dim’ stands for
the common word ‘dog’. Thus in the third statement the
remaining code- word which is ‘cus’ stands for ‘has’.

PRACTICE QUESTIONS
1. If ʻCONDEMNʼ is coded as ʻCNODMENʼ, then 10. If LUXOR is coded as 30, then GUILDS will be coded
ʻTEACHERʼ is coded as: as?
(a) TEACHER (b) TAEECHR (a) 40 (b) 36 (c) 38 (d) 24
(c) TCAEEHR (d) TAECEHR
11. If GOOD = 123, and BETTER = 210, then BEST will be
2. In a certain code language, ʻCOMEʼ is written as ʻXLNVʼ equal to
and ʻABLEʼ as ʻZYOVʼ. How will ʻMOLLYʼ be written in (a) 92 (b) 138 (c) 184 (d) 230
that code?
12. In a certain coded language, ‘orange’ is called ‘butter’,
(a) NLOBO (b) NLBOO
‘butter’ is called ‘soap’, ‘soap’ is called ‘ink’, ‘ink’ is
(c) LNOOB (d) NLOOB called ‘honey’, and ‘honey’ is called ‘orange’, which of
3. In a certain code language, ʻPROFESSIONʼ is written as the following is used for washing the clothes?
ʻEFORPNOISSʼ. In the same code ʻDICTIONARYʼ will (a) honey (b) butter
be written as: (c) orange (d) ink
(a) URAMPOTCID (b) ITCIDYRANO 13. If comb is called pen, pen is called spoon, spoon is called
(c) ITCIDYRNAO (d) ITCDIYARNO car, car is called mobile, mobile is called laptop, then
what is used to eat food?
4. If ʻJUNEʼ is coded as ʻNXPFʼ, then how will ʻSTAYʼ be
(a) Spoon (b) Car
coded?
(c) Laptop (d) Pen
(a) WWCZ (b) WVCZ
(c) WWDB (d) VWZC 14. In the certain code language, (1) ‘lo ni hie pun’ stands for
‘he is drinking coke’ ; (2) ‘hol ful gui pun’ stands for ‘she
5. If ʻOUTʼ is coded as ʻ152120ʼ, then ʻINʼ will be coded as: is eating food; and (3) ‘ne ful ni lo’ stands for drinking
(a) 1015 (b) 819 (c) 1813 (d) 914 coke and food; Which of the following words is the code
for ‘he’?
6. If ʻ341782ʼ denotes ʻMONKEYʼ and ʻ0596ʼ denotes (a) hie (b) lo
ʻRAGSʼ, then ʻ75195044ʼ will denote. (c) pun (d) ni
(a) KANGAROO (b) PALMANTT
15. In a certain code ‘7 8 6’ means ‘bring me apple’, ‘9 5 8’
(c) HANGAMEE (d) KARNAGOO
means ‘peel green apple’ and ‘6 4 5’ means ‘bring green
7. If E = 5, EMPIRE = 66, then REPAIR = ? fruit’. Which of the following is the code for ‘me’?
(a) 67 (b) 66 (c) 76 (d) 77 (a) 8 (b) 6
(c) 7 (d) Can’t say
8. If ‘REASON’ is coded as 5 and ‘BELIEVED’ as 7, what
16. In a certain language ‘good and bad’ is coded as ‘725’,
is the code number for ‘GOVERNMENT’?
‘one and all’ is coded as ‘932’ and ‘this all good’ is coded
(a) 10 (b) 6 (c) 9 (d) 8 as ‘954’ then in the same language what is the code of
9. If J = 10, JASMINE = 71, then ESTIMATE = ? ‘one’?
(a) 9 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 7
(a) 71 (b) 82 (c) 92 (d) 91