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
1	Lakshmi Prakash	1927	12	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199
1	Mona Sogal	1927	12	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199
1	Rathnakumar V	1927	12	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199
1	Samit Kallianpur	1927	12	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199
1	Venkatraghavan S	1927	12	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199
6	Ashit Hegde	1926	12	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199
6	Ian VanderSchee	1926	12	166	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168	157	169	199
8	Narayanan R	1925	12	166	157	148	156	135	160	162	149	168	157	169	198
8	Ratna Rao	1925	12	166	157	148	155	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199
10	Tejas Siddharth	1922	12	166	157	148	156	132	161	162	149	166	157	169	199
11	Nagendra Prasad R.	1921	12	166	157	146	156	131	161	162	149	168	157	169	199
11	Ramki Krishnan	1921	12	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199
13	Prakash Arumugam	1920	12	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199
14	Nilesh Parmar	1919	12	161	157	148	155	135	161	161	148	168	157	169	199
15	Lakshmi Vaidyanathan	1915	12	166	153	148	156	135	161	161	147	167	153	169	199
16	Sparsh Sinha	1913	12	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	153	162	197
17	Max Jackson	1910	12	160	157	148	153	133	161	161	149	168	157	164	199
18	Himanshu Rajurkar	1909	12	160	155	148	148	134	161	161	149	168	157	169	199
19	Venkatesan P.	1907	12	160	153	146	156	134	161	157	148	168	156	169	199
20	Madhusudan H	1906	12	160	157	144	155	130	161	161	148	168	156	169	197
21	Steve Gunter	1902	12	166	157	148	154	134	161	159	149	168	140	167	199
22	Sandhya Paruchuri	1886	12	128	157	148	156	135	161	161	148	168	157	169	198
23	Mukundala Balasubramanyam	1885	12	148	155	146	154	131	160	157	149	166	152	168	199
24	Narayana Swamy D	1784	11	165	154	148	156	0	161	161	148	166	157	169	199
25	Jose A	1750	11	0	157	148	155	133	161	161	147	168	157	164	199
26	Ramesh Ss	1740	11	0	149	146	155	134	161	160	149	162	157	169	198
27	Ranjani Srikanth	1734	11	151	157	148	146	134	160	161	148	168	0	163	198
28	Shobha Nayak	1720	11	150	155	148	154	129	160	162	149	0	154	162	197
29	Veera Raghavan Sundararajan	1716	11	0	152	148	134	131	161	162	144	162	156	168	198
30	Al Sanders	1615	10	166	157	0	0	130	161	160	148	168	157	169	199
31	Devi Prasad	1591	10	0	141	148	150	0	161	161	149	168	152	162	199
32	Krittibas Dasgupta	1588	10	0	157	148	155	135		162	149	168	153	163	198
33	Sampath Shrinivasan	1580	10	0	0	146	150	131	160	162	148	168	157	162	196
34	Madhup Tewari	1564	10	160	157	148	156	134	161	162	149	168	0	169	0
35	Arvind Ramaswamy	1468	9	0	157	148	156	0	161	162	148	168	0	169	199
36	Amita Annette Joseph	1448	9	0	0	0	156	135	161	159	149	168	157	164	199
37	Paul Henderson	1442	9	0	0	148	156	133	161	162	148	167	0	169	198
38	Arun Hiregange	1395	9	160	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168	0	0	0
39	Jyothish Balakrishnan	1383	9	0	157	148	153	134	160	162	148	0	152	169	0
40	Rengaswamy Narasimhan	1310	8	0	0	0	153	0	161	162	148	168	157	164	197
41	Aashwina Mouli	1255	8	0	0	0	156	134	161	162	149	168	157	168	0
42	Abhay Phadnis	1110	7	0	157	0	0	0	160	162	148	168	153	162	0
43	Supriya Mithal	1087	7	0	157	148	156	135	161	162		168	0	0	0
44	Arnav V Raju	972	6	0	0	0	156	132	159			0	157	169	199
45	Binay Patra	933	6	0	0	148	152	0		161	148	0	157	167	0
46	Samraat Saxena	782	5	0	0	0		135	161		149	168	0	169	0
47	Harish T.K.	772	5	0	0	148	0	0	161	152	149	0	0	162	0
48	Sohil Bhagat	695	4	166	0	0	0	0	161			0	0	169	199
49	Debasmita Basu	651	4	159	0	0	0	0	161			162	0	169	0
50	Usha Dronamraju	616	4	0	0	148	156	0			148	0	0	164	0
51	Harish Kamath	486	3	0	0	0	156	0	161			0	0	169	0
52	Kabir Firaque	457	3					135	161			0	0	161	0
53	Priya Shyam	444	3	0	0	146	0	129				0	0	169	0
54	CrossBird	346	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	161	185
55	Neelima Rai	337	2	0	0	0						168	0	169	0
56	Bhalchandra Pasupathy	317	2	0	0	0	156	0	161			0	0	0	0
57	Nathan GS	314	2	151	0	0	0	0				0	0	163	0
57	SSv Avtaar	314	2	0	0	0	153	0	161			0	0	0	0
59	Jacob Brahmakulam	296	2	0	0	0		135				161	0	0	0
60	Yasaswy Mokkapati	169	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	169	0
61	Ananya	168	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	168	0
62	Kitty Catty	161	1	161	0	0	0	0				0	0	0	0
63	Aswath Govindarajan!!	160	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	160	0
63	Shailesh Tipnis	160	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	160	0
63	Shashwat Salgaocar	160	1						160			0	0	0	0
66	Maya Sharma	156	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	156	0
66	Nick Loader	156	1	0	0	0	156	0				0	0	0	0
68	Dave Bromage	155	1	0	0	0	155	0				0	0	0	0
69	Loks Subrahmanyam	152	1	0	0	0	152	0				0	0	0	0
70	Anupam Kathuria	151	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	151	0
71	Brian Kogler	149	1	0	0	0	149	0				0	0	0	0
72	bluebirdtotallydb24a5af88	145	1	0	0	0	145	0				0	0	0	0
73	Rajaram Sundararajan	143	1	0	0	0	143	0				0	0	0	0
74	Steve Allen	135	1	0	0	0	135	0				0	0	0	0
75	Andrew White	134	1	0	0	0		134				0	0	0	0
75	Crypt On Y X	134	1	0	0	0		134				0	0	0	0
75	Meera Nandakumar	134	1	0	0	0		134				0	0	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

Pop goes the..