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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.

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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 15, 2010

    Daily Task #8: Memes

    Back, by popular demand

    Following the enthusiastic reception last week’s reprinting of Mr James Read’s short culture notes received, we have decided to furnish you with more of his observations. Today, we have collected some of his most popular summations of the “viral videos” that your internet has become so famous for. Can you name them? Send your answers to @WiredUK with the indicated hashtags.

    Mr James Read’s Meme Summaries

  2. In which a young child blithely ignores the saying “Once bitten, twice shy”, to his teething sibling’s amusement. #meme1
  3. A young couple disregard the correct etiquette for their wedding, mistaking it for musical theatre. #meme2
  4. This young man is vehement in his defence of a celebrated singer. #meme3
  5. An unconventional corrections technique proves the thrilling dexterity and co-ordination of the average convict. #meme4
  6. Musings into the nature of life and time by a child still groggy in the aftermath of a surgical procedure. #meme5


    7. I hope these provide some stimulation on a quiet Tuesday.
    I am, as ever, your supervisor and faithful servant,
    Charlton Rice-Laurie