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Posted by Andy Brown on 30 March 2022
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Answer to (and winner of) our March 2022 competition
Last month we asked you to decipher this message:
The RGB colours for each cell yield an encrypted message.
One way to solve this is with a macro written in VBA. You can see not only a solution but also the code to set the puzzle in this workbook:
The decryption macros are in the first module.
Here's the final message this reveals:
The final message is (as a bit of Googling would reveal if you haven't read it) a quote from 1984, by George Orwell.
Congratulations to Mike Nicholson of IBM, who wins this month's £50 Amazon voucher (his was the first entry out of 16 received picked out of our randomised sorting hat).