Challenge - Words

TNMOC’s Lockdown Challenge Pages

WORD Challenges

Can you spot all the computing words in our word search, unscramble computing anagrams or decrypt the codes?

We may not be able to offer our Learning programme sessions, which is at the heart of our Museum, but we still want to support and give back to the community. These lockdown word based challenges have been put together by our Volunteers for you to try.

We hope that whilst you explore the challenges, it will inspire thoughts and conversation or support student studies by looking at our collection and through that, your computing history and the people involved. Some of the questions posed may include: Why it warrants being in a Museum? What was it developed for, what solutions or problems did it bring to industry? Who are the people who developed it - how and why?

More challenges will be added over the coming weeks, so check back regularly to see what’s new. Our volunteers have had a lot of fun creating and road-testing them, so we hope you, your families and teams enjoy them.

We welcome your support to keep our museum going - to find out how click here

COMPUTING WORD SEARCH

Find the hidden computing words in the grids.

Just click on an image to print or download the PDF

CROSSWORDS

Try you hand at with our TNMOC crosswords.

Click on an image to view or download it. You can find the solution below it.

COMPUTING ANAGRAMS

Unscramble the letters to find things related to computing. Hint… some are specific to our museum and the answers can be found around our website. Once you have tried it, or when you give up, download the answer file to see how well you did.

Click an image to download or print the PDF. Click the answers link to view the answers.

CRYPTOGRAPHY

Of course we have some crypto challenges but you won’t need the Turing-Welchman Bombe or Colossus to break the code.

Click an image to download or print the PDF containing an encrypted message and see if you can decode it.

Click the Message Decoded link beside it to view the answer.