You have the eyes of a spy if you can spot hidden message in this image

At some point in our lives we've all pretty much had that dream of being a spy, whether it's because James Bond has made it look pretty damn fun or you fancy yourself a code-cracking cryptologist like Alan Turing.

Well, now's your chance to prove it because GCHQ is wanting people who have what it takes to look at a message and spot the hidden clues.

Working together with Manchester-based artist Justin Eagleton, they've got a code for you to crack in image form - and if you can manage it, you might just have a future in intelligence.

It's pretty simple, in the image below are 13 clues which each point towards a letter of the alphabet and if you can find them all they spell out a simple message.

So take a look, think hard about what's in the picture and what it could mean as a clue for the hidden message.

Artist Justin Eagleton is the man responsible for putting this puzzle together, and he told LADbible his advice would be: "Finding things that relate to the phonetic alphabet is a good starting point.

"I think if you get one clue right and work one of them out a lot of them do flow."

You'll also be able to spot Justin himself in the piece, as he's the driver of the car at the front of the queue (could that be a clue?).

Not every single clue will be based on the phonetic alphabet, but you can get a pretty decent idea of some of the letters by thinking of that.

The full answer will be revealed on GCHQ's LinkedIn tomorrow (14 March), but you can check it right now for hints and discuss your answers with others who are trying to see if they have the eyes of a spy.

Some of them even reckon they've already found the right answer, so give the puzzle a go before you have a little peek at what the answers might be.

After all, what sort of spy would you be if you just copied someone else's work?

As for how he got the gig in the first place, Justin explained that he'd created a piece of Alan Turing artwork which he sold to someone at GCHQ and then 'out of the blue' got the offer to do some artwork for their reception.

"I went down to the office at Manchester, not knowing it was GCHQ," he said of the bizarre experience he went through just to get into the office.

"I went through these glass doors and then it was a case of 'right, you need to stand on these squares to get through the first door'.

“'We're gonna take your phone off you, the car keys off you'. And I literally was just like, 'oh, yeah, it's fine, that blah, blah, blah'.

"Getting in the lift on my own, he said, 'you go up in the lift, there’ll be two people to meet you'.

"As I'm going up in the lift I'm thinking if Ant and Dec are at the top of here, this just sounds like a wind up. I came out and then they said welcome to GCHQ. And that’s how the relationship started."

You might have seen Justin before, and you've likely come into contact with his work, as for several years he was the lead artist on the FIFA game series and there was even a cheat code in 2002 FIFA World Cup which swapped out the England squad's heads for his team.

Fans of The Chase might also have seen him on the popular ITV quiz show where he chatted with Bradley Walsh about his passion for portraits.

Sadly Justin didn't do quite as well as he'd hoped, joking that his performance on the quiz show was 'not as good as I did at home' and saying that it was like 'an out of body experience'.

He said: "I had the Dark Destroyer, Shaun, he was lovely, really lovely.

"He really wanted me to win. I didn’t get in the final so I was really gutted and since they made me team captain I went first, I’m literally only on the show for 15 minutes."

If you've made it this far then you might be wondering what the answer to the puzzle is. One of the people who's tried to crack the code reckons she's found the solution and it's 'Journey to GCHQ'.

She pieced together the possible solution using her knowledge of the phonetic alphabet, braille, Morse code and the French word for water.