If you can solve these puzzles, you could be a top spy
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If you can figure out the answer to this riddle, you might have what it takes to be the next James Bond.
One of Britain's top intelligence agencies has issued a Christmas card which contains seven complicated puzzles.
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If you can solve all of them, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) just might give you a job.
The puzzles take seven different forms across seven different disciplines - engineering, codebreaking, analysis, maths, coding and cyber security.
And they are designed very intentionally to be very difficult.
GCHQ's director Sir Jeremy Fleming touted the Christmas card as the ultimate challenge for puzzlers.
"This year's GCHQ Christmas Card Challenge gives an insight into the skills we need every day as part of our mission – from languages to coding," he said.
"But skills alone won't be enough to crack this one. Puzzlers need to combine a mix of minds to solve the seemingly impossible."
Solving all seven puzzles is not the end of the challenge.
Puzzlers need to assemble the one-word answers to each puzzle using the Christmas tree design on the front of the card.
Puzzlers need to use six of the answers to form two addresses on the website what3words.
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The front of the Christmas card is vital to solving the puzzle. GCHQ
"The remaining puzzle contains a third address," the instructions state.
"Once you've found the locations, take a single word from each one to find our seasonal message."
If those instructions are too confusing for you, maybe a job in professional codebreaking isn't for you.
The GCHQ was formerly known as the Government Code and Cypher School, and was famously based at Bletchley Park during World War II.
There the agency broke Nazi Germany's Enigma Code, an intelligence breakthrough that played a large role in winning the war.
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More recently, the CGHQ has been based in the Gloucestershire town of Cheltenham, in a building known as The Doughnut.
Now the agency is focused on hostile actors like terror groups and organised crime gangs.
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