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GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:40 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Anyone had a go at this?

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:23 pm
by JimBentley
Phil Reynolds wrote:Anyone had a go at this?
I did. This is (I should stress I've not completed it, just done enough to be pretty sure that it is) a

QR code and I don't know what to do after that

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:11 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Don't worry guys. Jim got to Russia safely.

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:18 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Just had a look. It's a glorified fucking Sudoku puzzle.

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:32 pm
by Ben Wilson
I read the title 'GCHQ Christmas Puzzle', saw that Gevin was the most recent poster and expected a puzzle from him himself. I'm now disappointed to see bloody Picross. :-(

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 12:02 pm
by Stewart Holden
I had a go and have got about halfway through the picross so far. I suspect it reveals a QR code, though, which I dubious about whether it would actually scan correctly.

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 1:08 pm
by Graeme Cole
The QR code is only part 1 of 5. When correctly filled in, it leads you to part 2, which is a series of multiple choice questions. Then part 3 is some word problems and part 4 is some number problems. I'm now on part 5. Part 5 is... well. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it makes Elfeshire's COLIN puzzles seem straightforward in comparison.

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:22 pm
by Graeme Cole
I think I've solved all the puzzles in part 5 now, but I'm not sure how to translate the solutions to the Algebraic and Manifold Agreement puzzles into keywords consisting of a word or string of letters, as required by the instructions at the top. Anyone else done it?

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 10:29 pm
by Graeme Cole
Graeme Cole wrote:I think I've solved all the puzzles in part 5 now, but I'm not sure how to translate the solutions to the Algebraic and Manifold Agreement puzzles into keywords consisting of a word or string of letters, as required by the instructions at the top. Anyone else done it?
Boom. Got the Algebraic keyword.

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:48 am
by Ryan Taylor

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 9:04 am
by Graeme Cole
And there's me thinking I'd nailed it ages ago.

The Sum puzzle looks far too easy, so I and many other people have probably overlooked something there.

Re: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:09 pm
by Ian Volante
See that bloke that won? That's my old flatmate and current quiz boss that is.