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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. Daily News #3: Three Days to Go…

    Farewell for the week
    My dearest candidates, it has come time for me to bid you adieu for the weekend. In a scant ninety minutes time, I will step back through the Aetheric Portal, experiencing only the briefest period of disconcert before finding myself back on the soil of my dearest Empire, there to spend a glorious weekend with my wife and three young children on our Hampshire estate. My heart soars to think of the shade beneath our apple trees and my wife’s sweet company.

    You must forgive my outburst. It seems that the gifts of Aegletes, those rays of fair Apollo, have rais’d in me quite a youthful spirit.
    In any case, I will leave you with the news of the day and my fondest wishes.

    Roll of Honour - Week One
    It is my pleasure to draw to your attention those candidates who proved themselves pioneers this week. Now that all currently available tasks have been completed, I bring you the proud list of those ingenious individuals who were the first to complete each.

  2. #logo - rowanbeentje
  3. #crossword - rjharman
  4. #quote - daw8
  5. #books - phileadie
  6. #arms - hugh_wren
  7. #KIM - rowanbeentje
  8. #AR - Domoconnor
  9. #INC - sarahsworld

  10. My most enthusiastic felicitations to them all.

    Live Testing
    On this coming Monday, June the 7th, we will commence the live testing which you have all been awaiting so avidly. As you while away this weekend, craving more ways in which to prove your worth to the Empire, you may daydream and look forward to the following:

  11. Fiendish Geographical Conundrums!
  12. Thrilling Online Events!
  13. Confounding Creative Challenges!

  14. Prepare yourselves, candidates.
    It is time for me to bid you adieu for the bosom of my home. I leave you with the following portait of myself as I prepare to pass through the Aetheric Portal. I can only hope it serves as an acceptable replacement for my presence.



    I am, as ever, your supervisor and faithful servant,
    Charlton Rice-Laurie