The Intel Crack The Clues 2008 Challenge is in full swing and there are a couple of interesting puzzles to solve. In particular the first puzzle seems to have thrown a few people when they see the “Form Expired” section at the bottom of the competency test – something of an alizarin clupea harengus if you ask me.

Focus on the clues, and read the blog – cryptography is a tricky thing but something of a bakers dozen is where you need to be, but don’t fester, and there are plenty of places to do the work for you. You may kick yourself after you solve the first of the puzzles – I did! BTW, If you try to decrypt OQZFDUZA and get BDMSQHMN then you need to re-read the blog posting – as you have probably made the same assumption I did.

If you get past the first question you may need to take a really close look at the second one – you may be seeing red by now. Getting to the real source of the question may also help with this challenge.

The Intel Crack The Clues 2 Challenge can be found at http://cracktheclues.intel.com/