Here’s our updated Leaderboard for 2026

YTD (Rank)	NAME	YTD (Cum)	#Contests	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Ashit Hegde	923	6	166	157	148	156	135	161
1	Ian VanderSchee	923	6	166	157	148	156	135	161
1	Lakshmi Prakash	923	6	166	157	148	156	135	161
1	Mona Sogal	923	6	166	157	148	156	135	161
1	Rathnakumar V	923	6	166	157	148	156	135	161
1	Samit Kallianpur	923	6	166	157	148	156	135	161
1	Sparsh Sinha	923	6	166	157	148	156	135	161
1	Venkatraghavan S	923	6	166	157	148	156	135	161
9	Narayanan R	922	6	166	157	148	156	135	160
9	Ratna Rao	922	6	166	157	148	155	135	161
11	Steve Gunter	920	6	166	157	148	154	134	161
11	Tejas Siddharth	920	6	166	157	148	156	132	161
13	Lakshmi Vaidyanathan	919	6	166	153	148	156	135	161
14	Arun Hiregange	917	6	160	157	148	156	135	161
14	Nagendra Prasad R.	917	6	166	157	146	156	131	161
14	Nilesh Parmar	917	6	161	157	148	155	135	161
14	Prakash Arumugam	917	6	160	157	148	156	135	161
14	Ramki Krishnan	917	6	160	157	148	156	135	161
19	Madhup Tewari	916	6	160	157	148	156	134	161
20	Max Jackson	912	6	160	157	148	153	133	161
21	Venkatesan P.	910	6	160	153	146	156	134	161
22	Madhusudan H	907	6	160	157	144	155	130	161
23	Himanshu Rajurkar	906	6	160	155	148	148	134	161
24	Ranjani Srikanth	896	6	150	155	148	154	129	160
24	Shobha Nayak	896	6	151	157	148	146	134	160
26	Mukundala Balasubramanyam	894	6	148	155	146	154	131	160
27	Sandhya Paruchuri	885	6	128	157	148	156	135	161
28	Narayana Swamy D	784	5	165	154	148	156	0	161
29	Supriya Mithal	757	5	0	157	148	156	135	161
30	Jose A	754	5	0	157	148	155	133	161
31	jyothishb	752	5	0	157	148	153	134	160
32	Ramesh Ss	745	5	0	149	146	155	134	161
33	Veera Raghavan Sundararajan	726	5	0	152	148	134	131	161
34	Arvind Ramaswamy	622	4	0	157	148	156	0	161
35	Al Sanders	614	4	166	157	0	0	130	161
36	Devi Prasad	600	4	0	141	148	150	0	161
37	Paul Henderson	598	4	0	0	148	156	133	161
38	Krittibas Dasgupta	595	4	0	157	148	155	135
39	Sampath Shrinivasan	587	4	0	0	146	150	131	160
40	Amita Annette Joseph	452	3	0	0	0	156	135	161
41	Aashwina Mouli	451	3	0	0	0	156	134	161
42	Arnav V Raju	447	3	0	0	0	156	132	159
43	Sohil Bhagat	327	2	166	0	0	0	0	161
44	Debasmita Basu	320	2	159	0	0	0	0	161
45	Abhay Phadnis	317	2	0	157	0	0	0	160
45	Bhalchandra Pasupathy	317	2	0	0	0	156	0	161
45	Harish Kamath	317	2	0	0	0	156	0	161
48	Rengaswamy Narasimhan	314	2	0	0	0	153	0	161
48	SSv Avtaar	314	2	0	0	0	153	0	161
50	Harish T.K.	309	2	0	0	148	0	0	161
51	Usha Dronamraju	304	2	0	0	148	156	0
52	Binay Patra	300	2	0	0	148	152	0
53	Kabir Firaque	296	2					135	161
53	Samraat Saxena	296	2	0	0	0		135	161
55	Priya Shyam	275	2	0	0	146	0	129
56	Kitty Catty	161	1	161	0	0	0	0
57	Shashwat Salgaocar	160	1						160
58	Nick Loader	156	1	0	0	0	156	0
59	Dave Bromage	155	1	0	0	0	155	0
60	Loks Subrahmanyam	152	1	0	0	0	152	0
61	Nathan GS	151	1	151	0	0	0	0
62	Brian Kogler	149	1	0	0	0	149	0
63	bluebirdtotallydb24a5af88	145	1	0	0	0	145	0
64	Rajaram Sundararajan	143	1	0	0	0	143	0
65	Jacob Brahmakulam	135	1	0	0	0		135
65	Steve Allen	135	1	0	0	0	135	0
67	Andrew White	134	1	0	0	0		134
67	Crypt On Y X	134	1	0	0	0		134
67	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..