https://t.co/Vkg3QnF87d @BBCnews - surely heptopus?

We are looking forward to the launch of the official competition challenges at https://t.co/TprsnAEARd 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!

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 https://t.co/3QZO4emmyd to get involved

The clock is ticking down to the 3pm start of Practice Challenge 2 at https://t.co/3QZO4elOIF! We had over 7000 registered for the first round and there is still time to register for the competition. Hope to see you there!

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 https://t.co/52Omky8VO1 to to get your students signed up in time for the 2nd practice challenge tomorrow.

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 https://t.co/LZWCgCEswX or email nlc@gchq.gov.uk

Over 5000 already registered at https://t.co/TprsnAEARd 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!

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 https://t.co/TprsnAEARd.

Day 1 and we have reached our first 500 registrations at https://t.co/TprsnAE31F already! Will we beat last year's record 9,000? That is up to you!

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 https://t.co/TprsnAEARd on Thursday.

We're looking for new content to add to the National Cipher Challenge Community page. You can read last year's at https://t.co/vmJyjAAs9N 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!

Posters for this years https://t.co/o6KkcFReQd 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?

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!

To all in the https://t.co/3QZO4elOIF 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.

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: https://t.co/bbelVM6xb9 (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!

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

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!

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.

PS, we are keen to hear about your experiences with the challenge, so do reply if you are happy to talk about it. And if you have any news that you would like us to share then reply or email us at cipher@soton.ac.uk to let us know.

We're well underway with the competition at https://t.co/TprsnAE31F, & it is not too late to get involved if you fancy it. You'll be joining over 8500 other participants & there are still 6 challenges to break. The next one goes live at 3pm today. Hope to see you there.