GCHQ puzzle

[Steve Maskery]

According to the Beeb, GCHQ have issued a puzzle for Christmas. I can't get the Beeb link to work, but the Beeb article itself is here:
http://www.gchq.gov.uk/press_and_media/ ... -2015.aspx

I've done the first eight columns but ground to a halt.

Quite fun though.
S

 

[artie]

You'd think they could afford a faster site.

 

[misterfish]

I had the same problem yesterday, but this morning it has worked quickly.

Misterfish

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Sorry, life's too short.

 

[NazNomad]

I gave up after reading the first line of instructions. :-(

 

[DrPhill]

The puzzle was easy to solve - but I cannot get the black pen marks off my screen........

 

[stuartpaul]

The puzzle was easy to solve - but I cannot get the black pen marks off my screen........

Use tippex

 

[Jonzjob]

The puzzle was easy to solve - but I cannot get the black pen marks off my screen........

Use tippex

It works every time :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Here's the proooofff

 

[Bm101]

Click on the GCHQ link ehhh?

*puts on foil hat :shock:

 

[Steve Maskery]

Well after a couple of false starts, I've solved it. I've just got to find out where it leads now.
S

 

[Bm101]

A job at MI5?

 

[Steve Maskery]

Not yet. It takes me here:
http://www.gchq.gov.uk/puzz/Pages/index.aspx

I don't even understand the first question. How can something not be the odd one out? I don't get it.
S

 

[jimmy_s]

maybe starlet - all the others have double letters boNNet, saFFron, shaLLot and so on maybe?

 

[Mark-numbers]

I answered them all wrong on purpose, just to prove I won't be an asset to 'them'

 

[Bm101]

second ones a snooker question i think

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

I got stuck on the second one. The next few didn't go any better!

 

[Steve Maskery]

I got stuck on the FIRST one. It asks which one is NOT the odd one out. That doesn't make sense to me.

 

[Jonzjob]

I just gave up after the 1st. Too easy :roll: :roll:

 

[Steve Maskery]

Well I reckon we have find out in what way each one is the odd one out.

As Jimmy points out, Starlet doesn't have a double letter. So that IS an odd one out. Similarly Torrent does not begin with an S, so that IS an odd one out. We have to find one that is NOT the odd one out.

The name is Maskery. Steve Maskery.

Dum, du-du-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum,
Dum, du-du-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum,
Dum-dum, du, du, dum

 

[Geordie Joe]

I don't even understand the first question. How can something not be the odd one out? I don't get it.
S

The way I see it is.............There are six options, only one can be the odd one out, therefore five of them are not the odd one out.

A five out of six chance of getting it right............. and I still got it wrong!