In November, `The Imitation Game’ – a film about the life of Alan Turing starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role – opens in cinemas. StudioCanal (the film’s distributors) and the School of Mathematics are running a one-off cryptography competition to tie in with the film.

There are some great prizes: signed film posters, books, soundtracks, DVD bundles, day passes for Bletchley Park, etc – if you can crack the codes!

The competition is open from now until November 28.

See www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/cryptography_competition_the_imitation_game/

Posted on behalf of Charles Walkden, The University of Manchester email: charles.walkden@manchester.ac.uk