Winners of Challenge 4 and 5

Winners of Challenge 4 and 5

 

Impressive, we still have 509 teams who cracked Challenge 5B correctly - it might be hard to pick the winner of the overall challenge this year, though challenges 7 and 8 will be considerably harder and you probably need to start doing some research. It will be interesting to see how you get on with Challenge 6!

 

We didn't publish the winners for Challenge 4 last week, though we did get in touch with them. So here are the names of the winners for the £25 prizes for Challenges 4A and 5A:

Winners of the Part 4A Prizes:

Alex Woodpigeon Angus McEwan from The Grange Senior School
Alice L, Laura B, Estelle LB from City of London School for Girls
Ethel, Wanlun Ran, Bami, Grace from Padworth College
Archie Licudi from Magdalen College School
Greta, Florence, Kiran , Ludovica from St Paul's Girls' School
HP999 from Sir Thomas Rich's
Tim Green from Horsforth School
Penguin FM, Anccuter, Bonjour, Nomad, Lucy Wight from Edinburgh Steiner School

 

Winners of the Part 5A Prizes:

Liam Williams Andrew Teijlingen Bell L Cook K Peifer L Joel E Braithwaite from Furness Academy
OswinOswald from Park House School
Benedict Harris, Mark Deng, Dan Wray from King Edward's School, Bath
Chris from Queen Elizabeth's High School
Mr. McKenzie from The Gilberd School
YC; A Zyryanova; Xenia from City of London School for Girls
Thomas Bryden, Sam Matthews, Toby King, Harry Dibden from Twynham School
Evie Richards, Theo Fitzpatrick, Georgia Taylor-Schindler from City of London School for Girls

 

 

 

 

Winners of Challenge 3

Another good round as you settled into the competition proper! This week each of the following 8 teams will win a cheque for £25. We will be in touch by email to the address you gave us when registering, so do please check it and get back to us promptly so we can process your award. I hope you will find this week's challenge 4 fairly straightfoward so you can sharpen your speed and practice what you have learned. Next week things get tough! Good luck,

Harry
Winners of the Part 3A Prizes:

Darren Zeng, Benjie Wang, Hamish Corfield from Peter Symonds College
Feebxx from The Cheadle Academy
Nick Hannah from Farlingaye High School
Emily Shepherd from Cedars Upper
Pranav, Sunil, Rohit, Luciano, Mohammed, Zahidur, Conner, Dilkaran, Faisel, Tyler from George Salter Academy
Addicted to Math from Ysgol Glan Clwyd
Tamsyn, Alice from Tadcaster Grammar School
Tom Swinnerton Ryan MacAlister Ryan Lysycia Ollie Welch from Holmes chapel comprehensive school

Winners of Challenge 2

 

Congratulations to everyone who is still with us. Challenge 2 was a little trickier, but many of you managed it and several remarked that they though 2A was harder than 2B. Let's see how you get on with Challenge 3! The rounds will start to get a bit more interesting as time goes on, as from this stage the scores really count. Challenge 1 and Challenge 2 were just a warm up, but your overall score in the competition leader boards will be based on the scores you get for 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B and 8B. 

It may only have been a practice round but we do have some small prizes to give out for Challenge 2A, and this week the 8 winning teams are:

 

Chloe Lydia from The John Bentley School

Charlie Hu from City of London School
Thomas Mason, Catherine Rowlands, Charlotte Lloyd, Reece Ram from Shire Oak Academy
Jack Greenslade, Matthew Penney, Michael Farrell from Emmanuel College
HS0.Zip from KAIST
Lord Jordan IV Brosephwin ... from Cromer Academy
Cameron McKinney, Liam Boyd from University Academy Warrington
Munia Zaki from Notre Dame School

 

Finally we have some exciting news about a prize for schools. Our sponsors Winton Capital Management are underwriting an award of £1,000 to support Mathematics extension activites. To be considered for the prize send an email with the subject line Winton Capital Management Prize to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. outlining how you would use the money to improve student engagement with mathematics. It can be anything. A series of invited participants at your maths club; a school trip; resources for your school. We are looking for imaginative ideas to reach out to those who might not otherwise realise that they like maths. The whole spirit of the National Cipher Challenge is about grpping the imagination, so show us what you can do and have a go at winning this award. The winners will be invited to the Prizegiving at Bletchley Park on March 7th, More details to follow.

 

Winners of Challenge 1

A great start to the competition and we can announce the winners of this week's spot prizes:

 

Each of the following 8 teams will win a signed copy of Simon Singh's amazing new book, 'The Simpsons and their mathematical secrets'. We will be in touch by email to the address you gave us when registering, so do please check it and get back to us promptly so we can process your award.
To everyone else, there is always next week. Good luck,
Harry

PS, there will be more exciting news about Simon in the next week or so!

Winners of the Part 1A Prizes:

Matthew Chivers,Isabelle Atkins from Clifton College
George Brumpton Clare Higgins from King Edwards VI Grammar School
Isobel Morris from Hethersett junior school
Flynn Hickey Adam Woodard Arran Collis from The Angmering School
Rory Hand, Alistair Millican, Ross Cockburn from George Heriot's School
Hannah, William, Viraj, Thomas, Ben, James, Catherine, Emma, Jonathan, George, Selena, Gabriel, Emma, Georgina, Enida, Prisca, Jack, Danesh, Luka, Oliver, Bethany, Tom, Sam, George from Sharnbrook Upper School
Kira McMinn-Loughlin Katie Bates from Cedars upper school
The Vanguards from The High School of Glasgow