Here’s our updated Leaderboard for 2026

YTD (Rank)	NAME	YTD (Cum)	#Contests	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1	Lakshmi Prakash	2,347	15	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
1	Mona Sogal	2,347	15	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
1	Rathnakumar V	2,347	15	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
1	Samit Kallianpur	2,347	15	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
1	Venkatraghavan S	2,347	15	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
6	Ashit Hegde	2,346	15	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
6	Ian VanderSchee	2,346	15	166	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
8	Narayanan R	2,345	15	166	157	148	156	135	160	162	149	168	157	169	198	101	158	161
9	Tejas Siddharth	2,342	15	166	157	148	156	132	161	162	149	166	157	169	199	101	158	161
10	Nagendra Prasad R.	2,341	15	166	157	146	156	131	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
10	Ramki Krishnan	2,341	15	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
12	Nilesh Parmar	2,339	15	161	157	148	155	135	161	161	148	168	157	169	199	101	158	161
12	Prakash Arumugam	2,339	15	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199	101	158	160
14	Sparsh Sinha	2,333	15	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	153	162	197	101	158	161
15	Max Jackson	2,330	15	160	157	148	153	133	161	161	149	168	157	164	199	101	158	161
16	Himanshu Rajurkar	2,326	15	160	155	148	148	134	161	161	149	168	157	169	199	101	157	159
16	Venkatesan P.	2,326	15	160	153	146	156	134	161	157	148	168	156	169	199	101	157	161
18	Madhusudan H	2,325	15	160	157	144	155	130	161	161	148	168	156	169	197	101	158	160
19	Steve Gunter	2,318	15	166	157	148	154	134	161	159	149	168	140	167	199	101	155	160
20	Mukundala Balasubramanyam	2,302	15	148	155	146	154	131	160	157	149	166	152	168	199	101	156	160
21	Narayana Swamy D	2,204	14	165	154	148	156	0	161	161	148	166	157	169	199	101	158	161
22	Ratna Rao	2,180	14	166	157	148	155	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199	100	0	155
23	Lakshmi Vaidyanathan	2,175	14	166	153	148	156	135	161	161	147	167	153	169	199	101	0	159
24	Jose A	2,163	14	0	157	148	155	133	161	161	147	168	157	164	199	101	153	159
25	Ramesh Ss	2,157	14	0	149	146	155	134	161	160	149	162	157	169	198	101	157	159
26	Ranjani Srikanth	2,149	14	151	157	148	146	134	160	161	148	168	0	163	198	101	155	159
27	Sandhya Paruchuri	2,148	14	128	157	148	156	135	161	161	148	168	157	169	198	101	0	161
28	Veera Raghavan Sundararajan	2,135	14	0	152	148	134	131	161	162	144	162	156	168	198	100	158	161
29	Shobha Nayak	2,134	14	150	155	148	154	129	160	162	149	0	154	162	197	101	154	159
30	Al Sanders	2,033	13	166	157	0	0	130	161	160	148	168	157	169	199	101	158	159
31	Devi Prasad	2,006	13	0	141	148	150	0	161	161	149	168	152	162	199	100	155	160
32	Sampath Shrinivasan	1,999	13	0	0	146	150	131	160	162	148	168	157	162	196	101	158	160
33	Krittibas Dasgupta	1,998	13	0	157	148	155	135		162	149	168	153	163	198	101	152	157
34	Paul Henderson	1,862	12	0	0	148	156	133	161	162	148	167	0	169	198	101	158	161
35	Madhup Tewari	1,826	12	160	157	148	156	134	161	162	149	168	0	169	0	101	0	161
36	Jyothish Balakrishnan	1,638	11	0	157	148	153	134	160	162	148	0	152	169	0	97	0	158
37	Arvind Ramaswamy	1,569	10	0	157	148	156	0	161	162	148	168	0	169	199	101	0	0
38	Amita Annette Joseph	1,549	10	0	0	0	156	135	161	159	149	168	157	164	199	101	0	0
39	Arun Hiregange	1,395	9	160	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	Aashwina Mouli	1,356	9	0	0	0	156	134	161	162	149	168	157	168	0	101	0	0
41	Rengaswamy Narasimhan	1,310	8	0	0	0	153	0	161	162	148	168	157	164	197	0	0	0
42	Arnav V Raju	1,231	8	0	0	0	156	132	159			0	157	169	199	101	158	0
43	Harish T.K.	1,191	8	0	0	148	0	0	161	152	149	0	0	162	0	101	158	160
44	Abhay Phadnis	1,110	7	0	157	0	0	0	160	162	148	168	153	162	0	0	0	0
45	Supriya Mithal	1,087	7	0	157	148	156	135	161	162		168	0	0	0	0	0	0
46	Sohil Bhagat	954	6	166	0	0	0	0	161			0	0	169	199	101	158	0
47	Binay Patra	933	6	0	0	148	152	0		161	148	0	157	167	0	0	0	0
48	Samraat Saxena	782	5	0	0	0		135	161		149	168	0	169	0	0	0	0
49	Debasmita Basu	752	5	159	0	0	0	0	161			162	0	169	0	101	0	0
50	Nathan GS	711	5	151	0	0	0	0				0	0	163	0	83	154	160
51	Priya Shyam	704	5	0	0	146	0	129				0	0	169	0	101	0	159
52	Kabir Firaque	618	4					135	161			0	0	161	0	0	0	161
53	Usha Dronamraju	616	4	0	0	148	156	0			148	0	0	164	0	0	0	0
54	Neelima Rai	596	4	0	0	0						168	0	169	0	101	0	158
55	Harish Kamath	587	4	0	0	0	156	0	161			0	0	169	0	101	0	0
56	CrossBird	446	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	161	185	100	0	0
57	Bhalchandra Pasupathy	418	3	0	0	0	156	0	161			0	0	0	0	101	0	0
58	Jacob Brahmakulam	397	3	0	0	0		135				161	0	0	0	101	0	0
59	Srinivas KNS	314	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	155	159
59	SSv Avtaar	314	2	0	0	0	153	0	161			0	0	0	0	0	0	0
61	Loks Subrahmanyam	310	2	0	0	0	152	0				0	0	0	0	0	158	0
62	Shashwat Salgaocar	260	2						160			0	0	0	0	100	0	0
63	Rajaram Sundararajan	243	2	0	0	0	143	0				0	0	0	0	100	0	0
64	Yasaswy Mokkapati	169	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	169	0	0	0	0
65	Ananya	168	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	168	0	0	0	0
66	Kitty Catty	161	1	161	0	0	0	0				0	0	0	0	0	0	0
67	Aswath Govindarajan!!	160	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	160	0	0	0	0
67	Shailesh Tipnis	160	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	160	0	0	0	0
69	Maya Sharma	156	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	156	0	0	0	0
69	Nick Loader	156	1	0	0	0	156	0				0	0	0	0	0	0	0
71	Dave Bromage	155	1	0	0	0	155	0				0	0	0	0	0	0	0
72	Anupam Kathuria	151	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	151	0	0	0	0
73	Brian Kogler	149	1	0	0	0	149	0				0	0	0	0	0	0	0
74	bluebirdtotallydb24a5af88	145	1	0	0	0	145	0				0	0	0	0	0	0	0
75	Steve Allen	135	1	0	0	0	135	0				0	0	0	0	0	0	0
76	Andrew White	134	1	0	0	0		134				0	0	0	0	0	0	0
76	Crypt On Y X	134	1	0	0	0		134				0	0	0	0	0	0	0
76	Meera Nandakumar	134	1	0	0	0		134				0	0	0	0	0	0	0
79	Casey Callaghan	101	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	101	0	0
79	Suresh Dorbala	101	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	101	0	0
81	Koteswara Rao Kolluru	100	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	0
81	Pundit JEE	100	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	0
83	Amrita Majumdar	96	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	96	0	0
84	Tanish Jacob-Rego	65	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	65	0	0

Summary of Puzzles:

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Summary by Year

S.No	Year	Link	Player of the year
1.	2025	2025 Summary	Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman
2.	2024	2024 Summary	Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman
3.	2023	2023 Summary	Samit Kallianpur
4.	2022	2022 Summary	Samit Kallianpur
5.	2021	2021 Summary	Anicha Reuban
6.	2020	2020 Summary	Anirudh Sahni & Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman
7.	2019	2019 Summary	Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman
8.	2018	2018 Summary	Viresh Ratnakar

2017

Welcome to the Party

Mixed Doubles

And Then There Was A Word

With Lots of Love

Maiden Over

The Autograph

2’s Company

Mayday

Mum’s the word

Double Dare

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