For the first time ever we are proud to present official National Cipher Challenge certificates. To get yours just log in to the page
http://www.cipher.maths.soton.ac.uk/certificate.php
You can print it, paper your room with it, make a desktop picture out of it, or get it made into a tee shirt, we don't mind. It should display (or download) as a jpeg.
There are one or two glitches with the system, as you might expect (it's our first time) so apologies in advance for those. In particular the names of team members may have odd formatting depending on how they were entered into the registration form. We have ideas about how to improve that for next year. For now you can always fire up your favourite image editor and edit the certificate by hand. (No changing your scores though!)
Let us know what you think.
I looked into the problems with email feedback, and it appears that users with yahoo or btopenworld email addresses are not always getting their email from us. This is being investigated further, but in the meantime you should still (all) be able to check your feedback by looking at the online feedback page. We do delay feedback, so don't expect it to appear immediately. All the best,
Another two week challenge for you this week. The same division of time, but more points are available so you get a chance to catch up.
Speed marks for Challenge 5 part B
Before Midnight 1st Nov: 40marks
Before 1pm 2nd Nov: 39 marks
Before Midnight 2nd Nov: 38 marks
Before 1pm 3rd Nov: 37 marks
Before Midnight 3rd Nov: 36 marks
Before 1pm 4th Nov 35 marks
Before Midnight 4th Nov: 34 marks
Before 1pm 5th Nov: 33 marks
Before Midnight 5th Nov: 32 marks
Before 1pm 6th Nov: 31 marks
Before Midnight 6th Nov: 30 marks
Before 1pm 7th Nov: 29 marks
Before Midnight 7th Nov: 28 marks
Before 1pm 8th Nov: 27 marks
Before Midnight 8th Nov: 26 marks
Before 1pm 9th Nov: 25 marks
Before Midnight 9th Nov: 24 marks
Before Midnight 10th Nov: 23 marks
Before 1pm 10th Nov: 22 marks
Before Midnight 11th Nov: 21 marks
Before 1pm 11th Nov: 20 marks
Before Midnight 12th Nov: 19 marks
Before Midnight 12th Nov:: 18 marks
Before 1pm 13th Nov:: 17 marks
Before Midnight 13th Nov: 16 marks
Before 1pm 14th Nov: 15 marks
Before Midnight 14th Nov: 14 marks
The points schedule for Challenge 4B gives you two weeks gives you two weeks to try and make up for any lost marks earlier on in the competition.
Speed marks for Challenge 4 part B
Before Midnight 18th Oct: 28 marks
Before 1pm 19th Oct: 27 marks
Before Midnight 19th Oct: 26 marks
Before 1pm 20th Oct: 25 marks
Before Midnight 20th Oct: 24 marks
Before 1pm 21st Oct: 23 marks
Before Midnight 21st Oct: 22 marks
Before 1pm 22nd Oct: 21 marks
Before Midnight 22nd Oct: 20 marks
Before 1pm 23rd Oct: 19 marks
Before Midnight 23rd Oct: 18 marks
Before 1pm 24th Oct: 17 marks
Before Midnight 24th Oct: 16 marks
Before 1pm 25th Oct: 15 marks
Before Midnight 25th Oct: 14 marks
Before 1pm 26th Oct: 13 marks
Before Midnight 26th Oct: 12 marks
Before Midnight 27th Oct: 11 marks
Before 1pm 27th Oct: 10 marks
Before Midnight 28th Oct: 9 marks
Before 1pm 28th Oct: 8 marks
Before Midnight 29th Oct: 7 marks
Before Midnight 29th Oct: 6 marks
Before 1pm 30th Oct: 5 marks
Before Midnight 30th Oct: 4 marks
Before 1pm 31st Oct: 3 marks
Before Midnight 31st Oct: 2 marks
A good turn out for Challenge 2. Here are the lucky "picked from a php/mysql hat" winners for the part A prizes this week:
1. Our old friends and imaginatively named "4 + i", starring Eep, Chlo Brown Naomi Miller, Natasha Morrison and Abi Schultz from Oxford High School
2. Henrik Cullen from Sutton Grammar School For Boys
3. Daniel Karandikar (Danno) from King Edward Vi Aston
4. Jaime Wilkinson from another longstanding Cipher Challenge school, Whitgift
5. Christopher Dias, the Decoder from The London Oratory School
6. Rhianna Palmer (aka Meeeeee) of Northampton High School
7. Jordan Higgs, Dan Hayden, Michael Ives, and Nick Swinfield of John Cleveland College (please log in and change your team name guys, we'll get complaints from the school and they might keep your cheque!)
8. The Somersulting maths gurus Charlotte, Beth, from Teign
A cheque for £25 will be in the post to your schools soon.