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GCHQ Christmas challenge puzzles

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Dec 17, 2023
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Every year at Christmas time, the UK’s intelligence centre Government Communications Headquarters, better known by its acronym GCHQ, releases a set of puzzles for children, mostly riddles or simple cryptography. The PDF for this year’s is here (original hyperlink here):

2023 Gchq Christmas Challenge
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NB: for all my musician members, there is one puzzle that involves a music stave. B…

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