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The Turing Challenge
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:51 am
by Mick Norris
GCHQ
To celebrate Alan Turing featuring on the new £50 banknote, we’ve created our hardest puzzle ever in his honour.
The #TuringChallenge requires you to solve a string of puzzles which get increasingly difficult. Crack the answers to the first 11 puzzles which should give you 11 single words or names which you’ll need your very own Enigma simulator to decode!
Anyone having a go at this?
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:03 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
"Anyone having a go at this?"
Might do - the first one looks ok! But they will get harder. I wonder if "Cracking the Cryptic" will have a go.
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:44 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
I think I've done the first one, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with the next one...
(Edit - not understanding the question probably means I'm not cut out to be a cryptographer...)
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:56 pm
by Matthew Turner
Kevin,
The code below the picture is a reproduction of the text above. Solve it to read what the last two code words are.
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 6:04 pm
by Matthew Turner
Sorry, I have looked again and scratch the second part above
"The code below the picture is a reproduction of the text above"
should lead you to the answer, which I think is one 9 letter word.
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 6:20 pm
by Matthew Turner
You've got me hooked now.
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:05 pm
by Mick Norris
Ok, so that's puzzles 1 & 2 solved
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:04 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
Thanks to Matt, me too...
" I wonder if "Cracking the Cryptic" will have a go."
Yes - they did the lot in 2 hours and will probably broadcast their solve of interesting ones at some stage.
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 3:20 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
And sure enough... "Cracking the Cryptic"'s youtube channel has
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TnmcBhncM4
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 12:33 pm
by Mick Norris
Thanks for that Kevin, I'd have never got near the answer
Re: The Turing Challenge
Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 1:02 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
"Thanks for that Kevin, I'd have never got near the answer"
Having failed miserably with some of the middle ones, I got one of the later ones quickly. I did spot anagram possibilities when the answer to Q2 appeared, but I have to confess to not having heard of a couple of the corrected answers in the last bit. Anyone either young or foreign might struggle with some of the easy ones!
CTC has been a great companion over the last year, and I find sudoku with knight's move restriction fun, and not so difficult as some of the others. But I guess I have spent my entire life thinking of knight moves...