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.
Cracking The Code layers of guitar tracks, Petit's aim with Cracking The Code was different, he explained: "I wanted to reach a place where there is one guitar that is massive and huge… I didn’t want the distortion to be tidy; I wanted it to be ragged". Upon returning to London, Petit experienced a "mental blockage" which left him temporarily unable to finish some of the songs for Cracking The Code: "Some of the songs were finished, some of the songs had the hook without the verse, and some had no lyrics at all. I wanted to make sure that the lyrics matched