Spycraft - Week 2 Missions
Agents, welcome back to the field. This week’s focus is SpyCraft, the art of decoding patterns, synthesizing data, and uncovering what others overlook. Your mission is to sharpen your analytical thinking, strengthen your problem-solving, and develop the instincts to find what’s hidden in plain sight.
Throughout the week, you’ll work on identifying connections, unlocking coded information, and applying intelligence techniques to real-world academic challenges. Every task will test your ability to combine logic with creativity, precision with curiosity.
Stay alert, stay curious, and trust your analysis. The next breakthrough may not come from what you see, but from what you notice.
Welcome to SpyCraft week. The mission begins now.
Mission One: Synthesize Practice Exam — 70 points
Agents, your first task requires intelligence gathering, analysis, and synthesis. You will use artificial intelligence tools, including ChatGPT or any large language model, to simulate and predict the structure of one of your upcoming exams.
Your objective is to collect 3-5 past exam papers from any course you are currently taking, and the syllabus. These papers are your intel documents which will be used to generate synthetic new exam papers. Analyze them carefully, paying attention to recurring question formats, topic emphasis, and overall structure.
Follow these steps:
Upload the past papers and syllabus into ChatGPT, Gemini or the LLM platform of your choice
Use the Base Prompt below with your improvements
Submit your case file (include the past paper exams, the syllabus and the synthetic exams in one pdf file). You must document your process. Include the exact prompt you used in ChatGPT or any other model, the original exam papers you based your analysis on, and the two synthetic exams that were generated.
Exam Synthesizer Base Prompt (You Must Improve It):
“Analyze the following past exam papers and the syllabus I uploaded and create two new, realistic versions based on their structure, topic distribution, and question style. The first version is the same difficulty and the second is 2x harder. mirror the style, tone, and balance of the original exams. The new exams should feel realistic and consistent with the pattern of the uploaded documents. Clearly label each new version as Exam A (medium) and Exam B (hard).”
You are required to enhance this base prompt by making it specific to your course or subject area, refining it to control formatting and organization, and ensuring a clear balance between theory, application, and reasoning. The stronger and more refined your prompt, the higher your evaluation.
FYI: If you don’t have past exam papers, then: 1) use the course syllabus/curriculum 2) tutorial questions and, 3) ask your lecturer the likely structure of the exam: number of questions, sections, type of questions, length in hours.
Submission Requirements:
1) Submit the original exams or tutorials
2) Submit your PROMPT
3) Submit the 2 synthesized Exam Papers. All files should be labeled clearly and organized professionally.
Evaluation Criteria:
a) Pattern Intelligence – how well the generated exams reflect authentic trends from the originals.
b) Prompt Craftsmanship – how effectively you refined and optimized your AI instructions.
c) Synthesis Quality – clarity, realism, and creativity in the produced exams.
d) Professional Presentation – accuracy, formatting, and completeness of your submission.
Mission Two: Find the Spy — 100 points
AGENTS, one of you has been assigned as the spy. The spy has received a secret keyword known only to them.
Your mission:
Over the next 7 days, your goal is to identify who the spy is and discover the keyword.
You’ll each get only one official submission, one chance to name the spy and reveal the keyword. The Spy must use the keyword at least twice either verbally or in writing during our live sessions.
The stakes:
If you correctly identify the spy and the keyword, you win the cash prize.
If more than one person correctly identifies the spy, the prize will be split evenly among the successful agents.
If no one identifies the spy, the spy keeps the cash prize.
Use your critical thinking, observation skills, and a bit of cunning, because the spy will be doing everything they can to stay hidden.
Good luck, agents. 🕵️♂️ The clock starts now.
Mission Three: Password Protocol — 20 points
Agents, your clearance for this week’s mission requires a secure access code. The password is a string of characters assembled from three clues. Each clue must be decoded, combined, and entered in sequence without spaces.
The components are as follows:
The missing letter from Mission 1
The binary number hidden on this page, converted to its decimal form
The solution to the newsletter’s riddle below:
I change what I see but stay the same inside,
From words to meanings, I let data decide.
I learn from attention, not from a teacher’s roar,
And when I speak, the world listens for more.
What am I?
Only agents who can synthesize all three elements correctly will gain access. Precision matters. One incorrect character will compromise entry.
Proceed carefully, decode wisely, and protect the password at all times.
Your mission depends on it.
