The director of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, GCHQ, has sent out a puzzle for Christmas cards this year in the form of a grid for shading. If the puzzle is correctly solved, it’ll provide clues for another, more complex, puzzle, the solution of which leads to another, and so on. There’s a prize for a successful solver (drawn from a list of successes).
http://www.gchq.gov.uk/press_and_media/news_and_features/Pages/Directors-Christmas-puzzle-2015.aspx

How can there be a successful solver when there are clearly an infinite series of ever more complex puzzles?

How can there be a successful solver when there are clearly an infinite series of ever more complex puzzles?

It’s almost infinite.

My lazy description suggests it’s infinite, but that there must be a final puzzle can be inferred from my statement that there will be a winner. I assumed that people here had enough intelligence to make that deduction. Sorry about that.

btm said:

My lazy description suggests it’s infinite, but that there must be a final puzzle can be inferred from my statement that there will be a winner. I assumed that people here had enough intelligence to make that deduction. Sorry about that.

That’s where you went wrong.

Don’t enter, it’s a trick. The prize is that you’ll be abducted and turned into a brain in a jar. You’ll then have to spend the rest of your life decoding stuff for them, or they’ll flush you down the lavatory.

Bubblecar said:

Don’t enter, it’s a trick. The prize is that you’ll be abducted and turned into a brain in a jar. You’ll then have to spend the rest of your life decoding stuff for them, or they’ll flush you down the lavatory.

Seems a pieceful existence……

:P

Bubblecar said:

Don’t enter, it’s a trick. The prize is that you’ll be abducted and turned into a brain in a jar. You’ll then have to spend the rest of your life decoding stuff for them, or they’ll flush you down the lavatory.

more likely you’d go down with cancer or have an accident