Here’s our updated Leaderboard for 2026

YTD (Rank)	NAME	YTD (Cum)	#Contests	1	2	3	4	5
1	Ashit Hegde	762	5	166	157	148	156	135
1	Ian VanderSchee	762	5	166	157	148	156	135
1	Lakshmi Prakash	762	5	166	157	148	156	135
1	Mona Sogal	762	5	166	157	148	156	135
1	Narayanan R	762	5	166	157	148	156	135
1	Rathnakumar V	762	5	166	157	148	156	135
1	Samit Kallianpur	762	5	166	157	148	156	135
1	Sparsh Sinha	762	5	166	157	148	156	135
1	Venkatraghavan S	762	5	166	157	148	156	135
10	Ratna Rao	761	5	166	157	148	155	135
11	Steve Gunter	759	5	166	157	148	154	134
11	Tejas Siddharth	759	5	166	157	148	156	132
13	Lakshmi Vaidyanathan	758	5	166	153	148	156	135
14	Arun Hiregange	756	5	160	157	148	156	135
14	Nagendra Prasad R.	756	5	166	157	146	156	131
14	Nilesh Parmar	756	5	161	157	148	155	135
14	Prakash Arumugam	756	5	160	157	148	156	135
14	Ramki Krishnan	756	5	160	157	148	156	135
19	Madhup Tewari	755	5	160	157	148	156	134
20	Max Jackson	751	5	160	157	148	153	133
21	Venkatesan P.	749	5	160	153	146	156	134
22	Madhusudan H	746	5	160	157	144	155	130
23	Himanshu Rajurkar	745	5	160	155	148	148	134
24	Ranjani Srikanth	736	5	150	155	148	154	129
24	Shobha Nayak	736	5	151	157	148	146	134
26	Mukundala Balasubramanyam	734	5	148	155	146	154	131
27	Sandhya Paruchuri	724	5	128	157	148	156	135
28	Narayana Swamy D	623	4	165	154	148	156	0
29	Supriya Mithal	596	4	0	157	148	156	135
30	Krittibas Dasgupta	595	4	0	157	148	155	135
31	Jose A	593	4	0	157	148	155	133
32	jyothishb	592	4	0	157	148	153	134
33	Ramesh Ss	584	4	0	149	146	155	134
34	Veera Raghavan Sundararajan	565	4	0	152	148	134	131
35	Arvind Ramaswamy	461	3	0	157	148	156	0
36	Al Sanders	453	3	166	157	0	0	130
37	Devi Prasad	439	3	0	141	148	150	0
38	Paul Henderson	437	3	0	0	148	156	133
39	Sampath Shrinivasan	427	3	0	0	146	150	131
40	Usha Dronamraju	304	2	0	0	148	156	0
41	Binay Patra	300	2	0	0	148	152	0
42	Amita Annette Joseph	291	2	0	0	0	156	135
43	Aashwina Mouli	290	2	0	0	0	156	134
44	Arnav V Raju	288	2	0	0	0	156	132
45	Priya Shyam	275	2	0	0	146	0	129
46	Sohil Bhagat	166	1	166	0	0	0	0
47	Kitty Catty	161	1	161	0	0	0	0
48	Debasmita Basu	159	1	159	0	0	0	0
49	Abhay Phadnis	157	1	0	157	0	0	0
50	Bhalchandra Pasupathy	156	1	0	0	0	156	0
50	Harish Kamath	156	1	0	0	0	156	0
50	Nick Loader	156	1	0	0	0	156	0
53	Dave Bromage	155	1	0	0	0	155	0
54	Rengaswamy Narasimhan	153	1	0	0	0	153	0
54	SSv Avtaar	153	1	0	0	0	153	0
56	Loks Subrahmanyam	152	1	0	0	0	152	0
57	Nathan GS	151	1	151	0	0	0	0
58	Brian Kogler	149	1	0	0	0	149	0
59	Harish T.K.	148	1	0	0	148	0	0
60	bluebirdtotallydb24a5af88	145	1	0	0	0	145	0
61	Rajaram Sundararajan	143	1	0	0	0	143	0
62	Jacob Brahmakulam	135	1	0	0	0		135
62	Samraat Saxena	135	1	0	0	0		135
62	Steve Allen	135	1	0	0	0	135	0
65	Andrew White	134	1	0	0	0		134
65	Crypt On Y X	134	1	0	0	0		134
65	Meera Nandakumar	134	1	0	0	0		134

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..