Special Alphabet Code Question: Help please

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macgyver
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Special Alphabet Code Question: Help please

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I found a question which I had not seen before and need some help please.

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Many thanks for looking
hermanmunster
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Re: Special Alphabet Code Question: Help please

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Looks like a backwards alphabet starting at R on the "special alphabet". Letters S-Z shouldn't appear.

123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

7 is one on from 8(R) so answer would begin with S

Next letter is K which would match up with H - so answer is probably SHOW
macgyver
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Re: Special Alphabet Code Question: Help please

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hermanmunster wrote:Looks like a backwards alphabet starting at R on the "special alphabet". Letters S-Z shouldn't appear.

123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

7 is one on from 8(R) so answer would begin with S

Next letter is K which would match up with H - so answer is probably SHOW
Thank you very much. You are a genius. I can't get my head around it completely so I think I am not going to try n teach it to DS and give it a miss. Thanks again
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