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We've a few tickets spare for the National Cipher Challenge event at Bletchley on 4th March. With speakers including Rob Eastaway.If you or your school took part in the competition in the Autumn, email us at cipher@soton.ac.uk with your details so we can see if we can fit you in.
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Merry Christmas to everyone in the National Cipher Challenge community. Hope you all have a restful day if you are celebrating, and an enjoyable day whether or not you are.
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We are looking forward to the launch of the official competition challenges at cipherchallenge.org at 3pm this afternoon. If you want to find out why the three Charles (Babbage, Dickens and Wheatstone) need to talk to the US president, there is only one way to find out!
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Just like last year we broke the records for Challenge 2 entries with nearly 8100 of you signed up to take part. Practice Challenge 3 starts at 3pm today, so if you haven't signed up yet head over to cipherchallenge.org to get involved
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The clock is ticking down to the 3pm start of Practice Challenge 2 at cipherchallenge.org! We had over 7000 registered for the first round and there is still time to register for the competition. Hope to see you there!
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We couldn't be happier with the response to the first cipher challenge this year. Over 7400 signed up already and we're still on the 1st practice challenge! Head over to cipherchallenge.org/ to to get your students signed up in time for the 2nd practice challenge tomorrow.
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GCHQ's National Language Competition #NLC2025 runs from 17-21 Nov for students in Year 9 (🏴/🏴), Year 10 (NI), S2 (🏴), including home educated children.
For more info, including how to register your school’s interest, visit gchq.gov.uk/information/nati… or email nlc@gchq.gov.uk
ALT Promotional graphic for the National Language Competition (NLC) 2025, inviting UK secondary schools to participate from November 17-21. Includes GCHQ logo and details on regional prizes and entry information.
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Over 5000 already registered at cipherchallenge.org ready for the practice challenges to start tomorrow at 3pm. If you are aged 11-18 and want to learn codebreaking and show the world what you can do then head over and sign up!
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The 24th National Cipher Challenge is now open for registrations and we have already had 1200 sign ups. The competition starts on October 9th, so there is time to register your teams and get them investigating codes and ciphers. Catch up on our news at cipherchallenge.org.
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Day 1 and we have reached our first 500 registrations at cipherchallenge.org already! Will we beat last year's record 9,000? That is up to you!
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Just a few days now until the 2025 National Cipher Challenge opens for registration! If you know someone aged 11-18 who might like codes and ciphers (or who might not yet know that they do!) then get them to take a look at cipherchallenge.org on Thursday.
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We're looking for new content to add to the National Cipher Challenge Community page. You can read last year's at 2024.cipherchallenge.org/bos…
If you would like to feature this year, then do get in touch either here or by email at cipher@soton.ac.uk. We would love to hear from you!
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Posters for this years cipherchallenge.org should be arriving in schools this week. If you want to help promote the competition, why not post a picture of the poster on your boards?
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Holding a Clubs/Societies/Enrichment Fair for your school or college? The National Cipher Challenge might be just what you need. Here is a poster you can use to promote it! The site will open for registration on Sept 18th and the competition starts Oct 9th. Challenges weekly!
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To all in the cipherchallenge.org community getting your results today or supporting those who are: we wish you well, whatever your next steps. Embrace every challenge as an opportunity and welcome every opportunity presented to you.
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Want something to read on these idle summer days? You could take a look at this short article by one of our cipher challenge competitors: mathsrant.com/2025/07/28/the…
(Not that the Elves at CC HQ are idle. Far from it - too much to be done in prep for the new adventure. More soon!
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Just a heads up that now the challenge is finished we are working on the leaderboards, prizes and invitations to the National Cipher Challenge event @bletchleypark. Please do keep an eye out for messages from us on the site, and log in regularly to see if we have left one for you
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Last few days of this year's National Cipher Challenge, and we can't believe it has gone so fast! If you got stuck on Challenge 10B, then we are publishing a guide to breaking it, in the run up to the deadline, so head over to see what you can do! cipherchallenge.org
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Great book by a brilliant author, who also happens to be guest speaker at this year's National Cipher Challenge prize giving at Bletchley Park! Thanks for agreeing to join us Alex, we are really looking forward to it.
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It is also available at your local bookshop:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-…
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