One of the UK’s spy agencies has released a new Christmas challenge with their befuddling puzzle to put Brits through their paces.
You don’t have to be a quiz champion or Mensa member to work this puzzle out however it does require some forward thinking.
The Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, looks to get more people into intelligence and cybersecurity and if correctly solving this Christmas puzzle, a future in spy agencies could be yours.
GCHQ are renowned for issuing out a notoriously difficult Christmas puzzle each year.
The agency specialises in various areas including intelligence gathering and protecting the public from financial threats online with this year’s puzzle to solve with you and the family being “ trickier” and “longer”.
Lateral thinking, ingenuity and creativity are some of the skills required to be a skilled puzzle master.
Solving puzzles helps to contribute to a person’s overall health with experts finding it helps improve cognitive function, reduces stress, boosts a person’s mood thanks to its dopamine release and enhances memory.
It does this by engaging different areas of the brain, improving mental agility all while strengthening neural connections.
One study by the National Institutes of Health found that those who have a lifetime of jigsaw puzzle solving experienced multiple cognitive abilities and was a potential protective factor for cognitive aging.
Still stumped on the puzzle?
A solution is found in the nth in each word.
Each word is the nth is in a sequence including US Presidents, planets in the solar system, the tonic sol-fa scale, periodic table, books of the bible.
By taking the nth letter in the word you can spell out the word needed to solve this puzzle which is INDEX.
