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The Challenger Dispatch is your source for all news and information about WIRED UK's Enigma Challenge.

The Enigma Challenge is a series of puzzles, tasks and games designed to test your ingenuity, brainpower and creativity.

From June 7-19th we'll have daily game updates, so make sure you follow @WiredUK and check here regularly. The Challenge ends on July 7th, with the top 10% of players eligible to win a brand new, shiny 32GB 3G iPad.

How To Play

Find a task. They're in the Wired UK Magazine July issue, on this site, and via @WiredUK.

Complete the task. Solve a puzzle. Make a video. Whatever it is, get it done.

Tweet your answer. Each task has a unique #hashtag. Tweet this hashtag, along with your answer to @WiredUK. The instructions for each task will specify what form your answer should take. You can also use our quick-submission boxes on this site for each task.

Earn points. We track your points via Twitter on our live leaderboard. Be the first player to solve a puzzle, or submit one of the best entries to a task to earn extra points.

Play in teams. To create a team to play with your friends, just add any hashtag - like #london or #teamblue - to your answers.

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  1. Introduction

    An Open Letter to the PEOPLE of THE UNITED KINGDOM

    Greetings, citizens of the United Kingdom. My name is Charlton Rice-Laurie. I am His Majesty’s newly appointed ambassador to your country, and bring you the fondest of wishes and greetings from the British Empire. 

    As you no doubt will have heard, contact was recently made between our two Britains - our two parallel worlds - and diplomatic relations commenced between His Majesty’s British Empire and the United Kingdom. These discussions soon reached an entirely peaceful conclusion, with an harmonious and friendly partnership being established between our two nations. It is in the spirit of this partnership that I now address you. 

    It has been decided that, given the unique relationship between our countries, citizens of either will be offered the chance to attain joint citizenship of both. And so falls to me the happy task of presenting to you the following opportunity: join the prosperity, freedom, and enlightenment of the British Empire. 

    Applications will be accepted from any who wish to submit them. The process of proving your eligibility for joint citizenship, however, will not be so simple. We at His Majesty’s Ministry for Immigration, Naturalisation and Citizenship pride ourselves on accepting only those most worthy of a place in His Empire. As such, we have devised a series of tests which will prove your ingenuity, creativity, and drive, or your lack of them. You will find details of these tasks, and instructions on how to complete them, on the main page of this “blog”. 

    It is with the fondest good wishes and highest hopes that I encourage you to throw your hat into the ring. Should you decide to join our most prosperous and happy Empire, I look forward to guiding you through the application process.

    I am, most humbly, His Majesty’s Emissary and your servant,

    Charlton Rice-Laurie.