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Tag: #SolveItDickens
Winter 2024 Challenge: Fragments from Notebooks E and F
Join us to decipher some fiendish fragments from Notebooks E and F!
Deadline: 31 January 2025
Solution to the August 2024 challenge
Check out the results from our latest challenge here!
September-October 2024 Challenge: Final Pages of Notebook D!
Join us for the final challenge based upon Arthur Stone’s Notebook D!
Deadline: 31 October 2024
Solution to the July 2024 challenge
Check out the results from our latest challenge! Can you identify the source of the unidentified text discovered by the Dickens Decoders?
August 2024 challenge: Notebook D continued
Our work on Notebook D continues, with just a couple of challenges to go! Download an entry form and have a go!
Deadline: 6 September 2024
July 2024 challenge: Notebook D continued
Our work on Notebook D continues, with the end now in sight – and a mysterious text from an unknown source has emerged! Can you crack it? Download an entry form and have a go.
Deadline: 2 August 2024
Solution to the May 2024 Challenge
The Dickens Decoders matched most of the shorthand in our May challenge to passages from Sydney Smith’s work – but two unidentified lines remain! Find out more and download a line-by-line transcript here.
June 2024 challenge: Notebook D continued
We’re getting close to the end of Notebook D, setting four more pages for our challenge this June. What new mysteries will we discover? Download an entry form and find out!
Deadline: 1 July 2024
2024 Easter Challenge Solution: A new Dickens shorthand mystery?
Rather than a new mystery, the curious ‘specimen’ of shorthand from The Strand Magazine turned out to be an old ‘friend’ from the Brachygraphy manual… Find out more and download a line-by-line transcript here.