In a triumph of perseverance over procrastination, and of ingenuity over turkey induced indolence, you launched a stunning number of attacks on the final cipher challenge this year. As usual we were impressed beyond measure by your skill and persistence. Well done everyone who made it to the end, and well done to everyone who didn't, but who had a go, no matter how far you got. Maybe next year? .....
But for now we have the final leader boards, and of course we can announce the winners of the University of Southampton 9th National Cipher Challenge.
The GCHQ prize of £1,000 is awarded to David Edey of Alcester Grammar School, completing a stellar three years in which he has won all three Major prizes, the IBM Prize in 2008/9, the Trinity College Prize in 2009/10, and now the top prize in 2010/11. Congratulations to David. The rest of you will be relieved to hear that he will now be retiring from the competition!
The IBM prize of £800 is awarded to the team Kryptos of Peter Symonds College in Winchester. This team of Adam Foster, James McCann, Jonathan Neville, Alana Weir, Aidan Goodall worked consistently well. Very well done.
The Trinity College Cambridge prize of £700 is awarded to Team ULTRA: Like Totally Radical Awesome from Silverdale School, Sheffield. The team consists of Ben Ward James Ward Joe MacMahon Jonathan Hall Pete Hall Amelia Eastell. Many congratulations to them.
Many thanks to all the teams who have taken part this year and look out for the next installment of Harry's Game .....
Ps. See if you can find the winners on our Schools' Map - we've made it fairly easy for you!