The Imitation Game war (and the puzzle was not set by Turing, who was no good at them). Google, which sponsored the New York Premiere of the film, launched a competition called "The Code-Cracking Challenge" on 23 November 2014. It is a skill contest where entrants must crack a code provided by Google. The prize/s will be awarded to entrant/s who crack the code and submit their entry the fastest. In November 2014, ahead of the film's US release, "The New York Times" reprinted the 1942 puzzle from "The Daily Telegraph" used in recruiting codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
Cryptanalysis of the Enigma current on the way out to the lamp panel. To decipher German military Enigma messages, the following information would need to be known. Logical structure of the machine (unchanging) Internal settings (usually changed less frequently than external settings) External settings (usually changed more frequently than internal settings) Discovering the logical structure of the machine may be called "breaking" it, a one-off process except when changes or additions were made to the machines. Finding the internal and external settings for one or more messages may be called "solving" - although breaking is often used for this process as well. The various