If ‘gnr tag zog qmp’ stands for ‘Seoul cricket Organising committee’; ‘hyto…

Concept: In sentence-coding puzzles, each code word stands for exactly one English word. If a code word repeats across two coded statements, it must stand for the English word that is common to the two corresponding English sentences. Applying this pairwise-overlap check across all the given statements pins down every code word in turn, including one that appears in only a single statement, by elimination.

Applying it here:

1. Compare the first and second statements (‘gnr tag zog qmp’ = ‘Seoul cricket Organising committee’ and ‘hyto gnr emf’ = ‘winter cricket games’): the common code word is gnr and the common English word is cricket, so gnr = cricket.

2. Compare the second and third statements (‘hyto gnr emf’ = ‘winter cricket games’ and ‘esm sdr hyto’ = ‘modern games history’): the common code word is hyto and the common English word is games, so hyto = games.

3. In the second statement, ‘hyto gnr emf’ = ‘winter cricket games’. Removing the already-known codes for games (hyto) and cricket (gnr) leaves emf, so emf must be the code for winter.

Cross-check: ‘winter’ appears only in the second statement, and emf is the only code left over there once games and cricket are accounted for; no other statement contains ‘winter’ or ‘emf’ to contradict this, so the mapping holds consistently.

Answer: emf is the code for winter.

Final mapping:

• gnr = cricket

• hyto = games

• emf = winter