alleryStart learning →Tara hides a message by writing the letter after each one. What does she write for CAT?
- CBU
- DBU
- DBS
- EBU
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Correct answer: B. DBU
C moves to D, A moves to B and T moves to U, so CAT becomes DBU.
Olympiad (Class 4) Coding and decoding — practice questions
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Tara hides a message by writing the letter after each one. What does she write for CAT?Read the answer and worked solution →A spy moves every letter of DOG one step on in the alphabet. What does the spy get?Read the answer and worked solution →Hop each letter of SUN two steps ahead along the alphabet. Which word do you land on?Read the answer and worked solution →A secret club jumps three letters ahead, so A turns into D. What does BAT turn into?Read the answer and worked solution →Riya types MAP, but a faulty keyboard prints the neighbour after each letter. What appears?Read the answer and worked solution →A robot always prints the following alphabet letter. You ask for BOOK. What is printed?Read the answer and worked solution →A robot prints the following letter instead of the one you press. It printed IBQQZ. What did you press?Read the answer and worked solution →A slip reads FDW after a jump of three letters ahead. Walk back three letters to read it.Read the answer and worked solution →Ravi hides PEN by stepping each letter one place towards the start of the alphabet. What does he write?Read the answer and worked solution →Moving three steps on from X, Y and Z must loop back to the start. What does XYZ become?Read the answer and worked solution →Imagine a flipped alphabet where A swaps with Z and B with Y. What does CAT turn into?Read the answer and worked solution →With the flipped alphabet, where A and Z swap places, which word replaces DOG?Read the answer and worked solution →On a flipped alphabet, A pairs with Z and B with Y. Which letter pairs with M?Read the answer and worked solution →Add up the alphabet numbers (A is 1, B is 2 and so on) of C, A and T. What total do you get?Read the answer and worked solution →Give each letter its place number in the alphabet. What do D, O and G add up to?Read the answer and worked solution →B, A and G each have a place number in the alphabet. Find their total.Read the answer and worked solution →Rita counts the alphabet positions of H, E and N and adds them. What does she get?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the total of the alphabet positions of I, C and E?Read the answer and worked solution →Add the alphabet positions of T, E and N. Which total is right?Read the answer and worked solution →Z is the last letter of the alphabet. Add its position to those of two O letters. What is the total?Read the answer and worked solution →Counting from A as number 1, which letter is number 20?Read the answer and worked solution →The numbers 3, 1 and 14 are alphabet place numbers. Which word do they spell?Read the answer and worked solution →Spell the word hidden in 19, 21 and 14 using alphabet place numbers.Read the answer and worked solution →Alphabet place numbers 8, 5, 12 and 16 are on a card. What does the card ask for?Read the answer and worked solution →A clue reads 4, 1, 25 using alphabet places. Which word is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which bird hides in the numbers 2, 9, 18 and 4 when turned into letters by place?Read the answer and worked solution →Turn 6, 9, 19 and 8 into letters by alphabet place. Which sea animal do you get?Read the answer and worked solution →Which big cat appears when 12, 9, 15 and 14 are changed into letters by place number?Read the answer and worked solution →Players swap names so red is called blue, blue is called green and green is called yellow. What do they call grass?Read the answer and worked solution →Names swap: book to pen, pen to bag, bag to box. Which new name belongs to the tool for writing?Read the answer and worked solution →
Worked practice questions
A spy moves every letter of DOG one step on in the alphabet. What does the spy get?
- EPG
- EPH
- FPH
- DPH
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Correct answer: B. EPH
D goes to E, O goes to P and G goes to H, which gives EPH.
Hop each letter of SUN two steps ahead along the alphabet. Which word do you land on?
- VXQ
- UVP
- TVO
- UWP
Show answer and solution
Correct answer: D. UWP
S plus 2 is U, U plus 2 is W and N plus 2 is P, so SUN becomes UWP.
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