Operation Sherry Sting

Guessing a state without knowing its basis

Mission 2: The Art of Quantum Messages. Part of the Quantum Courier Service, a free course from the Oxford University Quantum Information Society.

Adjust your dinner jacket, recruit; you’re heading straight into an undercover social minefield at a high-brow Oxford cocktail party inside the Divinity School. Our targets are a row of eccentric dons whose hidden files are locked away in delicate quantum superpositions. To extract the intelligence without causing a scene, you must correctly deduce each academic's preferred basis: tap [+] ASK POLITICS if you reckon they’re preoccupied with parliamentary bickering, or [x] ASK AESTHETICS if they lean toward cultural whims like punting or hiking. Be bloody careful, though, applying an aesthetic filter to a purely political mindset creates a catastrophic perpendicular mismatch that permanently fractures their identity into an existential crisis and blows your cover. Profile all five targets seamlessly, and try not to spill the sherry. Chop chop!