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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 ...
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 ]
The organisation provides bespoke solutions to fit the needs of the government, its organisations, and specifically its intelligence assets. As of 2024, HMGCC had teams in the following areas: [7] Software engineering; Manufacturing; Corporate and support; Project and programme management; Systems engineering; Hardware engineering
Prizes are awarded to the top three entrants at the end of the challenge. In the 2009/10 challenge, the sponsors provided several prizes: IBM provided iPod Touches to each member of the team winning the Team Prize, Trinity College provided a cash prize of £700, and GCHQ provided a cash prize of £1000.
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. UK spy agency GCHQ reveals its Christmas ...
The annual brainteaser this year features a puzzle described as the toughest to date.