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LONDON (AP) — What does a spy agency give for Christmas? How about a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery. GCHQ, Britain’s electronic and cyber-intelligence agency, on Wednesday published its annual Christmas Challenge – a seasonal greeting card that doubles as a set of fiendishly difficult puzzles designed to excite young minds about solving cyphers and unearthing clues.
GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, has sent out its annual Christmas card, complete with a set of puzzles aimed at Britain’s youngest minds.
The UK spy agency’s Christmas Challenge includes seven puzzles that test skills such as codebreaking, maths and analysis. GCHQ tests schoolchildren with festive puzzles in Bletchley Park card ...
The Christmas Challenge has run every year since 2008. It provides special awards for the best performing charities; in 2017 the overall winner was Aurora Orchestra. [18] As of 2024, the Christmas Challenge accounts for around 75% of the £284 million raised by The Big Give. [19]
GCHQ have set a number of cryptic online challenges to the public, used to attract interest and for recruitment, starting in late 1999. [123] [124] The response to the 2004 challenge was described as "excellent", [125] and the challenge set in 2015 had over 600,000 attempts. [126]
Robert Peter Hannigan CMG (born 1965) is a cybersecurity specialist who has been Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, since 2021.He was a senior British civil servant who previously served as the director of the signals intelligence and cryptography agency the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and established the UK's National Cyber Security Centre. [1]
GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, has sent out its annual Christmas card, complete with a set of puzzles aimed at Britain’s youngest minds.
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