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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. June 16, 2010

    Daily Task #9: Etiquette

    Etiquette

    It is my great pleasure to inform you, Candidates, that you are approaching the culmination of your citizenship test. As such, I feel it is my duty to correctly prepare you for your eventual introduction to Imperial Society. To this end, today’s task will teach you the proper etiquette for a large soiree, at which you will meet many people.

    From 14.30 BST to 16.30 BST today, I will be hosting a simulation of such an event in the text-only section of the popular “chat site” Omegle. To take part, all you must do is log on to the site, and observe the following etiquette:

  2. Greet every new person with “How Do You Do?”
  3. The polite response is “How Do You Do?”
  4. Proceed to introduce yourself by your twitter username - this is, after all, how we are known amongst other Candidates. “Allow me to introduce myself. I am [twitterusername]”.
  5. Respond with “A pleasure to meet you, [twitterusername]. I am [otherusername]”.
  6. At this point, you may commence a conversation, as any civilised person might.


    7. To judge your ability to function in polite society, I will be circulating amongst the guests. If we should meet, I will give you further instructions on how to receive your grade for this task.

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