Intel Code Breaker Challenge Winners Announced

The first Intel Code Breaker Challenge at IDF 2009 concluded last night and we’re pleased to announce the winners of the contest. Almost 100 people entered the challenge this year.

The winners were as follows:

- First Place — AKA the “Intel Code Breaker 2009″ — Tareq Saif a student from San Pablo, California won an HP notebook computer with a quad-core Intel Centrino2 processor.

- Second place– Alan Yee from Cisco systems in San Jose, California won a Dell Netbook with an Intel Atom processor.

- Third place — Martin Wojtczyk of Bayer Healthcare in Berkley, California won an HP MediaSmart home server.

If you have been working on the puzzles and would like the answers here they are:

Puzzle 1 — 121801

Puzzle 2 — 6983104110102

Early next week, we will be posting a video with puzzle 2 creator Mike Kounavis that will explain how to solve it.

Thanks to everyone that played the game. We hope to see you again next year at IDF2010.