Harry

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Join Harry at the National Cipher Challenge, which invites school-aged participants to put their code-breaking skills to the test every Autumn. Created by the School of Mathematical Sciences @UniSouthampton.

The best of times - Challenge 1 form cipherchallenge.org, featuring a playing card depicting Charles Dickens as the Jack of Clubs
A white A4 envelope in landscape, with the logos for: the 23rd National Cipher Challenge; the organisers at the University of Southampton; the sponsors - GCHQ, Ten Degrees, Netcraft, Trinity College Cambridge, EPSRC, Northrop Grumman and the Bluespark Foundation. The competition opens for registration on 12th September 2024 and starts on 5th October 2024. It is a free online codebreaking competition for UK School and 6th form college aged pupils. It awards online certificates, medals and cash prizes, with a £5000 prize fund. The National Cipher Challenge is run by the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton
The University of Southampton National Cipher Challenge medals. They are round, cast in metal & around 50mm across. They have the University logo at the centre with an encrypted message behind & Harry's signature below Above the logo it says "Champions".
Kate knew guns but nothing about ciphers, so the inscription on the bullet was a mystery. Needing help to decipher it, she wrote to the one woman on earth who might know how. Join Ada Lovelace, Kate Warne, and Charles Babbage to help them solve The Mystery of the Silver Bullet. A codebreaking competition for UK schools and colleges, from the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton. Hosted at https://www.cipherchallenge.org Registration opens 12th September Competition starts 10th October £5,000 in prizes to be won