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
1	Lakshmi Prakash	2028	13	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101
1	Mona Sogal	2028	13	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101
1	Rathnakumar V	2028	13	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101
1	Samit Kallianpur	2028	13	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101
1	Venkatraghavan S	2028	13	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101
6	Ashit Hegde	2027	13	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199	101
6	Ian VanderSchee	2027	13	166	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168	157	169	199	101
8	Narayanan R	2026	13	166	157	148	156	135	160	162	149	168	157	169	198	101
9	Ratna Rao	2025	13	166	157	148	155	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199	100
10	Tejas Siddharth	2023	13	166	157	148	156	132	161	162	149	166	157	169	199	101
11	Nagendra Prasad R.	2022	13	166	157	146	156	131	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101
11	Ramki Krishnan	2022	13	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101
13	Prakash Arumugam	2021	13	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199	101
14	Nilesh Parmar	2020	13	161	157	148	155	135	161	161	148	168	157	169	199	101
15	Lakshmi Vaidyanathan	2016	13	166	153	148	156	135	161	161	147	167	153	169	199	101
16	Sparsh Sinha	2014	13	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	153	162	197	101
17	Max Jackson	2011	13	160	157	148	153	133	161	161	149	168	157	164	199	101
18	Himanshu Rajurkar	2010	13	160	155	148	148	134	161	161	149	168	157	169	199	101
19	Venkatesan P.	2008	13	160	153	146	156	134	161	157	148	168	156	169	199	101
20	Madhusudan H	2007	13	160	157	144	155	130	161	161	148	168	156	169	197	101
21	Steve Gunter	2003	13	166	157	148	154	134	161	159	149	168	140	167	199	101
22	Sandhya Paruchuri	1987	13	128	157	148	156	135	161	161	148	168	157	169	198	101
23	Mukundala Balasubramanyam	1986	13	148	155	146	154	131	160	157	149	166	152	168	199	101
24	Narayana Swamy D	1885	12	165	154	148	156	0	161	161	148	166	157	169	199	101
25	Jose A	1851	12	0	157	148	155	133	161	161	147	168	157	164	199	101
26	Ramesh Ss	1841	12	0	149	146	155	134	161	160	149	162	157	169	198	101
27	Ranjani Srikanth	1835	12	151	157	148	146	134	160	161	148	168	0	163	198	101
28	Shobha Nayak	1821	12	150	155	148	154	129	160	162	149	0	154	162	197	101
29	Veera Raghavan Sundararajan	1816	12	0	152	148	134	131	161	162	144	162	156	168	198	100
30	Al Sanders	1716	11	166	157	0	0	130	161	160	148	168	157	169	199	101
31	Devi Prasad	1691	11	0	141	148	150	0	161	161	149	168	152	162	199	100
32	Krittibas Dasgupta	1689	11	0	157	148	155	135		162	149	168	153	163	198	101
33	Sampath Shrinivasan	1681	11	0	0	146	150	131	160	162	148	168	157	162	196	101
34	Madhup Tewari	1665	11	160	157	148	156	134	161	162	149	168	0	169	0	101
35	Arvind Ramaswamy	1569	10	0	157	148	156	0	161	162	148	168	0	169	199	101
36	Amita Annette Joseph	1549	10	0	0	0	156	135	161	159	149	168	157	164	199	101
37	Paul Henderson	1543	10	0	0	148	156	133	161	162	148	167	0	169	198	101
38	Jyothish Balakrishnan	1480	10	0	157	148	153	134	160	162	148	0	152	169	0	97
39	Arun Hiregange	1395	9	160	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168	0	0	0	0
40	Aashwina Mouli	1356	9	0	0	0	156	134	161	162	149	168	157	168	0	101
41	Rengaswamy Narasimhan	1310	8	0	0	0	153	0	161	162	148	168	157	164	197	0
42	Abhay Phadnis	1110	7	0	157	0	0	0	160	162	148	168	153	162	0	0
43	Supriya Mithal	1087	7	0	157	148	156	135	161	162		168	0	0	0	0
44	Arnav V Raju	1073	7	0	0	0	156	132	159			0	157	169	199	101
45	Binay Patra	933	6	0	0	148	152	0		161	148	0	157	167	0	0
46	Harish T.K.	873	6	0	0	148	0	0	161	152	149	0	0	162	0	101
47	Sohil Bhagat	796	5	166	0	0	0	0	161			0	0	169	199	101
48	Samraat Saxena	782	5	0	0	0		135	161		149	168	0	169	0	0
49	Debasmita Basu	752	5	159	0	0	0	0	161			162	0	169	0	101
50	Usha Dronamraju	616	4	0	0	148	156	0			148	0	0	164	0	0
51	Harish Kamath	587	4	0	0	0	156	0	161			0	0	169	0	101
52	Priya Shyam	545	4	0	0	146	0	129				0	0	169	0	101
53	Kabir Firaque	457	3					135	161			0	0	161	0	0
54	CrossBird	446	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	161	185	100
55	Neelima Rai	438	3	0	0	0						168	0	169	0	101
56	Bhalchandra Pasupathy	418	3	0	0	0	156	0	161			0	0	0	0	101
57	Jacob Brahmakulam	397	3	0	0	0		135				161	0	0	0	101
57	Nathan GS	397	3	151	0	0	0	0				0	0	163	0	83
59	SSv Avtaar	314	2	0	0	0	153	0	161			0	0	0	0	0
60	Shashwat Salgaocar	260	2						160			0	0	0	0	100
61	Rajaram Sundararajan	243	2	0	0	0	143	0				0	0	0	0	100
62	Yasaswy Mokkapati	169	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	169	0	0
63	Ananya	168	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	168	0	0
64	Kitty Catty	161	1	161	0	0	0	0				0	0	0	0	0
65	Aswath Govindarajan!!	160	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	160	0	0
65	Shailesh Tipnis	160	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	160	0	0
67	Maya Sharma	156	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	156	0	0
67	Nick Loader	156	1	0	0	0	156	0				0	0	0	0	0
69	Dave Bromage	155	1	0	0	0	155	0				0	0	0	0	0
70	Loks Subrahmanyam	152	1	0	0	0	152	0				0	0	0	0	0
71	Anupam Kathuria	151	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	151	0	0
72	Brian Kogler	149	1	0	0	0	149	0				0	0	0	0	0
73	bluebirdtotallydb24a5af88	145	1	0	0	0	145	0				0	0	0	0	0
74	Steve Allen	135	1	0	0	0	135	0				0	0	0	0	0
75	Andrew White	134	1	0	0	0		134				0	0	0	0	0
75	Crypt On Y X	134	1	0	0	0		134				0	0	0	0	0
75	Meera Nandakumar	134	1	0	0	0		134				0	0	0	0	0
78	Casey Callaghan	101	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	101
78	Suresh Dorbala	101	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	101
80	Koteswara Rao Kolluru	100	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100
80	Pundit JEE	100	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100
82	Amrita Majumdar	96	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	96
83	Tanish Jacob-Rego	65	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	65

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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