How To Participate

Individual undergraduate students, or teams of up to three, are eligible to participate. Each individual or team must have a faculty sponsor in order to register. The faculty sponsor's role is to verify that team members are students and to help the Kryptos Code Masters get in touch with contest winners.

Please read the official contest rules and instructions for submitting solutions before the contest begins.

When the contest begins at 4 p.m. PDT on the first day, the Cipher Challenges will be available at the Kryptos website. Begin working and have fun! Solutions need to be submitted by 4 p.m. on the last day of the competition. All times are Pacific Daylight Time.

Results will be posted shortly after the end of the contest. As teams finish each challenge, please prepare and submit solutions according to the guidelines.

Please submit your solutions as you solve each challenge, as the time taken to solve a challenge will be used to determine final rankings.

Questions or difficulties?  Email Stuart Boersma [ Stuart.Boersma@cwu.edu ].