The Challenge

The Elite Box Challenge are three scrambled pieces of text, poems or rhymes. Your task is to shuffle the rows and columns of each box in such way that the original text appears in the text square. However, this one is far more difficult than its predecessor, the Crypto Box Challenge. If you haven't solved those boxes already, we recommend training your skills on the Crypto Box Challenge first, although not mandatory.

You can download the free Crypto Box tool to shift letters in a square. Be advised that using only the Crypto Box software won't be enough to solve the Elite Box Challenge. Retrieving the original position of the letters is a real challenge. Even the simplest shuffle with a few steps creates a most complex brain-teasing problem. What's in it for you? You can earn a place in the Table of Honor and the respect of fellow codebreakers and crypto amateurs from all over the world!

NEWS	George Lasry from Israel is the fourth to solve one Elite box on June 8, 2025. You can also participate in the Elite Box Challenge! Your results will be listed in the Table of Honor. Four participants from as many countries have already entered the challenge. Join them!

How To Participate

In the Elite Box Challenge, the boxes are only numbered to identify them and do not reflect their difficulty level. You decide in which order you want to solve them and will rise one position in the Table of Honor for any box you solve. You may solve them in more or fewer steps than indicated. The solved box number(s) are noted behind each participant's name in the challenge results. This way you can see in which order other participants solved the boxes.

If you solved a box, send an e-mail with your name and country, and in attachment the solution in a .txt file (UTF-8 format in Notepad or TextEdit). The solution must contain both the decrypted text and the key used (use the Crypto Box tool, Menu Key, To Clipboard, as Steps).

The Crypto Box tool is optional but very useful. You can copy and past the text boxes into the Crypto Box tool, it's easy to shift rows and columns and the tool remembers the key you used, which you need to submit a solution. The software is also handy to create your own puzzles or encrypt short messages.

Tips on Cracking the Boxes

• To limit the complexity there are never more that two successive identical steps.
• The words are written out without any space or other characters between them.
• The text might be trailed with one or more letters X to complete a box.
• One of the texts is not written in English and once determined Europe's future.
• One of the English texts is fractionated and has a connection with two famous inventors.

Important note: It is not allowed to publish or distribute the copyrighted enciphered challenge messages or their deciphered version on the Internet or anywhere else, electronically, in print or in any other form, in order to preserve the value of current and future challenge table results.

LOLSTUTEOT
STSLONXXLE
AIENONSXCL
URDMGASAES
SEUTNEDOOE
UNTUNOBSNG
UCARMENBTO
UFFMEOOLNX
OESNMXNLLE
XVEOXETGDX

SLLSLSSLSP
SPSSPSPSSS
LLSSPSLPLL
SLSLPPSPLP
PSSSPLPSLP
SSSSLSSSLL
PPSSPPLSPS
LLSLSSPSPL
LLSSSSSSLP
SSPPPPSPLP

DOXARDDEYA
GFSAROTELS
VDHETSHNEW
ADWUNVETGN
NAWELIDVAE
FOSWRWOAII
DNLNWDLTED
EXLOEEESEA
NXOEIELXDS
WWFELLDRSA