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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.

Miscellany

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  1. June 3, 2010

    Daily News #2: Four Days to Go…

    Watching the clock
    Candidates, I hope you are as scintillated as I am by the rapid approach of this Monday the seventh of June; for that day brings us the commencement of live testing. From Monday, we will be bringing you new tasks to complete daily, with each bringing your goal of joint citizenship ever closer. My anticipation could not be more palpable.

    A Message from International Babbage Machines
    Our friends at International Babbage Machines would like me to bring some technical issues to the attention of those candidates who are accessing the Ministry of Immigration, Naturalisation and Citizenship Helpline. His notes follow.
    To all users of our INC helpline:

  2. It seems there has been a security breach in the administrative section of the helpline, leading to some candidate’s applications being erroneously labelled as complete. I would advise candidates that this area of the helpline is strictly off limits, and access should not be attempted.
  3. There appears to have been several instances of AR number duplication within our data stacks. Those registering with duplicate AR numbers have been logged, and appropriate action will be taken.
  4. The system will no longer be undergoing scheduled maintenance between 5pm-7pm GMT. We caught the pigeon after all.



    5. I am ashamed to say that I failed to comprehend a word of that, but I hope it has been instructive to you. In your continued quest to join the Empire, I wish you nothing but Good Luck.
    I am, as ever, your supervisor and servant, Charlton Rice-Laurie