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11 Plus (11+) Verbal Reasoning Practice Test: Word-Number Codes - Cracking The Code To Work Out The Word
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11 Plus (11+) Verbal Reasoning Practice Test: Word-Number Codes - Cracking The Code To Work Out The Word
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1. As you may know, Poland is now in the European Union. We can't quite manage THE EUROPEAN UNION in only 10 differing letters/numbers in English, but it works in French (where you can ignore accents on capital letters) as L'UNION EUROPEENNE ... which we may code as 852762 4536144224.
Poland, in French, is POLOGNE. Would we be able to accommodate Polish 'membership' in the union, in its French form?
2. If (perhaps before a royal ceremonial event) STATE TRUMPETERS are coded as 84145 4267354528, would it be possible to encode SPECIAL CASE ?
3. MATHEMATICALLY may (appropriately) be coded as 53897538213440.
My Swiss-French friend lives in a CHALET (193478), and his name is the only one with the phone number correctly coded below. Which is his name?
4. If CAULIFLOWER is coded as 04732135689, what does 043592120 spell?
5. THE GROSVENOR HOTEL ( = 215 783095638 13254 ) is hosting a major musical event and all its rooms are full.
Each guest has an appropriately digitally-coded pass-key ... apart from in ONE group, where one or more key/s are somehow confused or garbled. In which group, or pair, is the wrong key?
6. It's amazing what you can buy at THE SUPERMARKET ( = 835 96152472058) these days, yet there are limits ...
Which of these 'shopping lists' is the only one that you could most likely fulfil in a typical supermarket?
7. If 74338126657 85209 is the code for WHEELBARROW LOADS, what destination is encoded as 1566570283?
8. If WALT DISNEY is coded as 9876 543210, which of the following is the code for WEDNESDAY?
9. The GRAND UNION CANAL can be coded as 90217 81631 52124. Which of these codes would represent the disappeared peer LORD LUCAN?
10. If CIRROCUMULUS CLOUD is coded as 692286171314 63815, can we code the phrase DULL OLD MUSIC ?