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  • GCHQ releases Picross-like puzzle to the public

    The director of the UK government's super-secretive snooping agency GCHQ has included a puzzle with his Christmas cards this year, and the public have been invited to have a stab at solving it as well.
    It takes the form of a Picross puzzle, a type of challenge you're most likely to have encountered previously on a Nintendo handheld or on your mobile. By following the number rules outlined next to each row and column, the challenge is to use your powers of logical deduction to fill in squares and reveal a pretty picture in the process.
    We had a stab at it, on a wobbling train, and after a night out at the Christmas party. The shaky, completely illegible results from our ill-advised formatting approach can be seen below.
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