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First time here? Your task is to try and decipher the text below. There are two parts to the Challenge, part A and part B, and you should try to decipher both of them, but you will get a score for each one, so don’t worry if you can’t break one of them this week. The text you can see below is part A of Challenge 2, so spend a little time trying to break it, and when you have, then you (or your team captain if you are not the captain of your team), should paste your solution in the box at the bottom of the page and press the submit button.
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As we mentioned above this is where you can submit your solution. Since this is a practice challenge we will give you feedback for your submission so you can try to improve it if it is not quite right. If there are too many mistakes then we won’t do that, as we don’t want to encourage you to just guess!
Exposed?
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As usual, paste your decrypt here and press submit to get some feedback. You can see your scores and download certificates from your account area on the website.
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RULE REMINDER: Rapid fire multiple submissions put an unreasonable load on the servers and make it difficult for others to submit. Anyone who makes an unreasonable number of submissions will be open to disqualification. In the first instance this will mean that anyone who submits more than 20 times in 10 minutes will be disqualified.