Here’s our updated Leaderboard for 2026

YTD (Rank)	NAME	YTD (Cum)	#Contests	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	Lakshmi Prakash	1402	9	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168
1	Mona Sogal	1402	9	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168
1	Rathnakumar V	1402	9	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168
1	Samit Kallianpur	1402	9	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168
1	Venkatraghavan S	1402	9	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168
6	Ashit Hegde	1401	9	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168
6	Ian VanderSchee	1401	9	166	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168
6	Narayanan R	1401	9	166	157	148	156	135	160	162	149	168
6	Sparsh Sinha	1401	9	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168
10	Ratna Rao	1400	9	166	157	148	155	135	161	162	148	168
11	Tejas Siddharth	1397	9	166	157	148	156	132	161	162	149	166
12	Nagendra Prasad R.	1396	9	166	157	146	156	131	161	162	149	168
12	Ramki Krishnan	1396	9	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168
12	Steve Gunter	1396	9	166	157	148	154	134	161	159	149	168
15	Arun Hiregange	1395	9	160	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168
15	Madhup Tewari	1395	9	160	157	148	156	134	161	162	149	168
15	Prakash Arumugam	1395	9	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168
18	Lakshmi Vaidyanathan	1394	9	166	153	148	156	135	161	161	147	167
18	Nilesh Parmar	1394	9	161	157	148	155	135	161	161	148	168
20	Max Jackson	1390	9	160	157	148	153	133	161	161	149	168
21	Himanshu Rajurkar	1384	9	160	155	148	148	134	161	161	149	168
21	Madhusudan H	1384	9	160	157	144	155	130	161	161	148	168
23	Venkatesan P.	1383	9	160	153	146	156	134	161	157	148	168
24	Shobha Nayak	1373	9	151	157	148	146	134	160	161	148	168
25	Mukundala Balasubramanyam	1366	9	148	155	146	154	131	160	157	149	166
26	Sandhya Paruchuri	1362	9	128	157	148	156	135	161	161	148	168
27	Narayana Swamy D	1259	8	165	154	148	156	0	161	161	148	166
28	Jose A	1230	8	0	157	148	155	133	161	161	147	168
29	Ramesh Ss	1216	8	0	149	146	155	134	161	160	149	162
30	Ranjani Srikanth	1207	8	150	155	148	154	129	160	162	149	0
31	Veera Raghavan Sundararajan	1194	8	0	152	148	134	131	161	162	144	162
32	Arvind Ramaswamy	1100	7	0	157	148	156	0	161	162	148	168
33	Al Sanders	1090	7	166	157	0	0	130	161	160	148	168
34	Supriya Mithal	1087	7	0	157	148	156	135	161	162		168
35	Devi Prasad	1078	7	0	141	148	150	0	161	161	149	168
36	Paul Henderson	1075	7	0	0	148	156	133	161	162	148	167
37	Krittibas Dasgupta	1074	7	0	157	148	155	135		162	149	168
38	Sampath Shrinivasan	1065	7	0	0	146	150	131	160	162	148	168
39	Jyothish Balakrishnan	1062	7	0	157	148	153	134	160	162	148	0
40	Aashwina Mouli	930	6	0	0	0	156	134	161	162	149	168
41	Amita Annette Joseph	928	6	0	0	0	156	135	161	159	149	168
42	Abhay Phadnis	795	5	0	157	0	0	0	160	162	148	168
43	Rengaswamy Narasimhan	792	5	0	0	0	153	0	161	162	148	168
44	Samraat Saxena	613	4	0	0	0		135	161		149	168
45	Harish T.K.	610	4	0	0	148	0	0	161	152	149	0
46	Binay Patra	609	4	0	0	148	152	0		161	148	0
47	Debasmita Basu	482	3	159	0	0	0	0	161			162
48	Usha Dronamraju	452	3	0	0	148	156	0			148	0
49	Arnav V Raju	447	3	0	0	0	156	132	159			0
50	Sohil Bhagat	327	2	166	0	0	0	0	161			0
51	Bhalchandra Pasupathy	317	2	0	0	0	156	0	161			0
51	Harish Kamath	317	2	0	0	0	156	0	161			0
53	SSv Avtaar	314	2	0	0	0	153	0	161			0
54	Jacob Brahmakulam	296	2	0	0	0		135				161
54	Kabir Firaque	296	2					135	161			0
56	Priya Shyam	275	2	0	0	146	0	129				0
57	Neelima Rai	168	1	0	0	0						168
58	Kitty Catty	161	1	161	0	0	0	0				0
59	Shashwat Salgaocar	160	1						160			0
60	Nick Loader	156	1	0	0	0	156	0				0
61	Dave Bromage	155	1	0	0	0	155	0				0
62	Loks Subrahmanyam	152	1	0	0	0	152	0				0
63	Nathan GS	151	1	151	0	0	0	0				0
64	Brian Kogler	149	1	0	0	0	149	0				0
65	bluebirdtotallydb24a5af88	145	1	0	0	0	145	0				0
66	Rajaram Sundararajan	143	1	0	0	0	143	0				0
67	Steve Allen	135	1	0	0	0	135	0				0
68	Andrew White	134	1	0	0	0		134				0
68	Crypt On Y X	134	1	0	0	0		134				0
68	Meera Nandakumar	134	1	0	0	0		134				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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