Math Can you solve...

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35058761

Britain's most secretive organisation - GCHQ - has added a cryptic twist to Christmas card season by including a baffling brainteaser.

This year spy agency director Robert Hannigan is sending out a complex grid-shading puzzle inside his traditional Christmas cards of the nativity scene.

Shouldn't take long....

N.

 

[Artlav]

Well, it's a QR code with a link to a page that appears to be DDoS-ed right now.

 

[Notebook]

Maybe they are just busy with terrorists...

N.

 

[jangofett287]

gchq.gov.uk is currently unavailable, possibly due to ongoing issues with JISC.

 

[C3PO]

Sweet! I just had a wisdom tooth removed, so the timing is perfect. Now i can check if I lost some of my wisdom. :lol:

 

[GLS]

Got about half of it done, but it's getting harder as I go along... :uhh:

 

[Col_Klonk]

I'd be happy to give it a go.. if they made the bloody numbers readable.. :lol:
Otherwise I'm not going to waste my time deciphering 'garbage'.
:tiphat:

 

[Pipcard]

Isn't this just Picross?

(I never knew how to do these kinds of puzzles, but I think I recognize the type)

 

[GLS]

Picked up this again, and there's a pattern emerging.

 

[Artlav]

Isn't this just Picross?

It's only "complex grid-shading puzzle" for journalists. For the elderly it's "daily routine", for math-inclined people it's a "Nonogram", for the GCHQ it's "first stage filter".

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Btw, anyone got any luck accessing the page?
By now it loads the title (Director GCHQ's Christmas Puzzle - Part 2), but won't load any further.

 

[Notebook]

Looks like I didn't get past the first-part filter...still, its nice being on the sunny side of the bell-curve.

N.

 

[GLS]

Almost finished and noticed I messed up somewhere along the way.... :facepalm:
Start again.

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Finished!!!! I did the 2º try over the 1º one and only found one error... I guess this thing isn't error tolerant. :dry:
Now, I could show the answer... but then I would have to kill you :rofl:.
I'm joking, here it is (I'm not inserting the image because spoilers...).

 

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35429971

Well...

N.