Magic Word

In the number code given, 14 is repeated consecutively. So, the third and fourth letter have to be the same. So, we can eliminate LOOSER(second and third are repeated, not third and fourth) and SECRET(no letter is repeated consecutively).

This leaves us with LOTTOS and WINNER. If LOTTOS was the correct answer, then the second and the fifth number have to be the same. But the second number is 23 and the fifth number is 18.

So, the answer is WINNER.

WINNER satisfies W=9, I=23, N=14, E=18, R=5

There isn't really enough information to solve this problem with 100 percent certainty because codes and ciphers can be quite complicated, with shifting keys and so on. However, a good first guess is that the author of the problem is thinking of a one of the simplest possible methods, especially since this is a puzzle for normal people, not a training website for NSA agents.

My first guess was: some kind of simple substitution cipher where each number stands for one letter. This is not just a random guess but is based on the actual text of the question. I first tried the simplest type of that cipher: A=1, B=2 and so on, but that did not match any of the offered answers. This gives us IWNNRE, which is a transposition of WINNER, so if this was supposed to be a transposition and substitution, OK - but that didn't seem to match "A secret code assign each letter of the alphabet to a unique number. "

So assume look instead at straight substitutions where any letter might correspond to any number but that the correspondences are fixed. The obvious clue is that '14' is repeated at the 3rd and 4th positions. Checking the provided answer list shows "WINNER" with "N" repeated. No other provided answer matches, so I guessed this was 'the' answer and was marked correct. (substitutions known are W=9, I=23, N=13, E=18, R=5. Rest of alphabet unknown)

Note 1: I do not like it when a multiple choice problem relies on looking at the provided possible answers to solve the problem, except in the case where the problem statement directs you to the answer list. I see no way of decrypting "9 23 14 14 18 5" into "WINNER" except by looking at the choices listed and saying "that's more likely that any of the others listed", so I strongly recommend rewriting the problem to say "Which of the following choices is most likely to be the Magic Word" or some such phrasing.

Note 2: It is not at all clear how the puzzle maker arrived at this sequence of numbers. I feel the problem is strangely unsatisfying. Could the puzzle maker tell us what we are supposed to learn here?

If you look carefully the middle two letters repeat. That eliminates LOOSER and SECRET. If it was LOTTOS 23 and 18 would have to be the same. So the answer has to be winner. Also, a different way is to write out the alphabet and number them in order (A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4 etc.) If you do that the numbers match with the letters in winner.
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Cracking the numbers on the box we get- 9=I, 23=W, 14=N, 14=N, 18=R, 5=E. Watching the options and rearranging the alphabets we get WINNER

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this was very simple

Its Just Alphabet correcting

each letter represented by its number which is: I=9; W=23; N=14; R=18; E=5 Here Magic Word is Scrambled as 9;23;14;14;18;5=>IWNNRE THEREFORE CORRECT WORD IS => WINNER

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First number is 9, which is "I." Subsequently, looking at the answer list, "WINNER" is the only choice that has an "I" in its spelling.

third and forth letter of the word are the same code 14, Winner is only word with third and forth the same letter

pretty easy but not realistic because of the placement of the n´s

there were two of the same number (14) so it was a given.

There are two 14s so it must be the same letter. There are two 25s, each on the opposite side of the 14s, so they are the same letter.

The first two letters are swapped, same with the second two letters, and the third two letters, the ninth letter of the alphabet is i and the 23rd is w. The 14th letter of the alphabet is n and the 18th is r and the 5th is e so the letters in the order they appear on the box are iwnnre but by swapping each pair of letters you get winner.

just match the letters of the alphabet with the numbers and you get a code use the letters in the code to make the word and the word is your answer =a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 code =I w n n r e= winner this is a very good starter puzzle because it requires some thought it wasn't until after I came up with winner that i realized there were answer choices while trying to submit my answer

W=9, I=23, N=14, E=18, R=5 14 is repeated consecutively......LOTTOS and WINNER left ........18 is wrong key ...... 23 is right key = W!nn3r !!!!!

9 is equal to I on the alphabet and 5 is equal to E on the alphabet so therefore, I was able to do process of elimination to get the right answer.

Just the butterfly got 14 red circles on him (caesar table)

the two 14's tell me the third and fourth position are repeating. Cuts the possible answers in half by eliminated Looser and Secret since they don't have repeating symbols in those spots. Then the second and fifth position would have to be the same if it were to be LOTTOS since the "O" repeats. Not the case so we're left with WINNER.

14 is repeated, so the 3rd and 4th letters must be the same, narrowing the options down to WINNER and LOTTOS. WINNER would have the 2nd and 5th numbers differ, while LOTTOS would have them be the same. Because the two numbers are different, it can only be WINNER.

Two letters the same in third and fourth position . All others different

9th letter is i 23rd number is w and so on.. you'll get the text " iwnnre" just rearrange them, this is a very easy one.

Since none of the numbers are above 26, and there are 26 letters in the alphabet, they probably represent letters. If you do it in order, you get I W N N R E which is a scrambled up W I N N E R

Eliminate LOOSER and SECRET since the two middle letters have to be the same (to satisfy 14 14). The answer can't be LOTTOS because 23 and 18 are in the same position that the Os are in. So the only answer must be WINNER

So simple according to the arrangement of alphabets and repetition of 14, so its of course WINNER.

I used the eliminated method. Since each code assign the unique alphabet, we can see that the code is 9 23 14 14 18 5. 14 is the code that appear twice which mean there are double alphabet in the middle of the magic word. So there only 2 option which go along with our solution, WINNER and LOTTOS. But beside 14, there 9 23 18 5 which are all different from each other. This mean that there are no any replicated alphabet beside the middle double alphabet. LOTTOS has O which is the replicated alphabet. So the there are only 1 option left and it is WINNER!!!