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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 Task #11: Class Photograph

    A Congratulatory Note

    It is my great pleasure, Candidates, to congratulate you on reaching the end of the live testing phase of your applications to become Joint Citizens of the United Kingdom and His Majesty’s Empire. While your applications will not be completed until the process officially ends on July Seventh, your efforts over the past two weeks have proven you all worthy of the great honour you will soon have bestowed upon you.

    In recognition of this fact, today’s daily task, the final one of its kind, will be to collectively create a recursive class photograph - a visual representation of the elite group of which you are all now members.

    I wish you to begin with a photograph of a single candidate, displaying their username. I would then like each candidate in turn to take a photograph of themselves, displaying their username, with the previous candidate’s photograph displayed, each one adding to the recursion. An example may be found here. Each photograph should be sent to @WiredUK with the label #classphoto

    On July 7th, every candidate who has taken part in creating the longest recursion will receive their due reward. This challenge will require teamwork and co-ordination, so get to it, new citizens!

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