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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. July 8, 2010

    A Fond Farewell

    A Parting Word

    This is the last time we shall speak. Candidates, or rather citizens, it is with sorrow that I bid you farewell, but it is with great pride and fondness that I congratulate you all on your successful citizenship applications. As the final stage in our journey together, you may follow this link to receive a souvenir of our time together, which also functions as a questionnaire for your new life as a joint citizen. I hope you cherish it as I will cherish my memories.

    Most Honoured Citizen Named!

    With the closing of the application process, we are now able to name the recipient of our Most Honoured Citizen award - tonytlwu. Congratulations to that man!

    Nostalgia

    During our time together, we have tackled many challenges, and created many wonderful and interesting works. I would like to briefly highlight some of these.











    Invention

    Ingenuity

    Innovation

    Some Questions Settled

    In the interest of sating any lingering curiosities, we include here a list of answers for all of the tasks in the Citizenship test.

  2. Distance: 7300 miles.
  3. K.I.M: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  4. A.R.M.S: A.R.M.S wants to play draughts, and chooses to play white.
  5. Books: All the books feature Railways.
  6. Errata: There are 9 anomalies.
  7. Quote: The invented quote ends with the word “families”.
  8. Crossword: Achievement
  9. AR: Setec Astronomy
  10. INC: Victoria
  11. Logo: Points
  12. Song One: “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley
  13. Song Two: “Independent Woman” by Destiny’s Child
  14. Song Three: “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” by Meatloaf
  15. Song Four: “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga
  16. Song Five: “Bonkers” by Dizzee Rascal
  17. Trace: Pimlico
  18. Meme One: “Charlie Bit Me”
  19. Meme Two: “JK Wedding Entrance Dance”
  20. Meme Three: “Leave Britney Alone”
  21. Meme Four: “Prison Thriller”
  22. Meme Five: “David After Dentist”
  23. Party: 6000
  24. Neville: The Elusive Camel


    25. Goodbye

    I am, for the final time, your servant,
    Charlton Rice-Laurie