If you’ve not qualified for the cups or you’ve been unlucky and been knocked out early, there is one last chance each year. The highest 64 total scores of players not in any of the current puzzle competitions (Grand Combined Tournament doesn’t count for this) are entered into a random straight knockout cup.
Puzzle Last Chance Cup
| Name | Country | Match |
| 志航 杨 | China | Last Chance Match 1 |
| Ryo Hieda | Japan | Last Chance Match 1 |
| Yuji Yamamoto | Japan | Last Chance Match 2 |
| Jörg Zentgraf | Germany | Last Chance Match 2 |
| Pro ChatGPT | USA | Last Chance Match 3 |
| Akihiro Kaneko | Japan | Last Chance Match 3 |
| Serhii Tyshchenko | Ukraine | Last Chance Match 4 |
| Andreas Ettner | Germany | Last Chance Match 4 |
| jun seo ha | Korea, South | Last Chance Match 5 |
| Veronika Hrubjáková | Slovakia | Last Chance Match 5 |
| Zoe Ashford | UK | Last Chance Match 6 |
| Mark Sweep | Netherlands | Last Chance Match 6 |
| Thomas Baxter | Canada | Last Chance Match 7 |
| Ralf Möbus | Germany | Last Chance Match 7 |
| Arianna Domenichelli | Italy | Last Chance Match 8 |
| Name Surname | China | Last Chance Match 8 |
| Gyimesi Zoltán | Hungary | Last Chance Match 9 |
| Kristi Lehto | Estonia | Last Chance Match 9 |
| Иван Георгиев | Bulgaria | Last Chance Match 10 |
| Anna Szymańska | Poland | Last Chance Match 10 |
| Shifu Nakazawa | Japan | Last Chance Match 11 |
| Grace He | Australia | Last Chance Match 11 |
| Chiel Beenhakker | Netherlands | Last Chance Match 12 |
| William Hu | Australia | Last Chance Match 12 |
| Vlad Klyachin | Russia | Last Chance Match 13 |
| Tom Collyer | UK | Last Chance Match 13 |
| Nicholas Allendorf | USA | Last Chance Match 14 |
| Lucy Epstein | USA | Last Chance Match 14 |
| Rianda Jenema | Netherlands | Last Chance Match 15 |
| Letian Ming | China | Last Chance Match 15 |
| Jeremy Kong | UK | Last Chance Match 16 |
| Damian Księżyk | Poland | Last Chance Match 16 |
| Marco Wahnschafft | Germany | Last Chance Match 17 |
| Ian Osborn | USA | Last Chance Match 17 |
| Leo Wang | Taiwan | Last Chance Match 18 |
| Ryotaro Chiba | Japan | Last Chance Match 18 |
| Ben Shapiro | USA | Last Chance Match 19 |
| Wojciech Nadara | Poland | Last Chance Match 19 |
| Giuliano Montelucci | Italy | Last Chance Match 20 |
| Ammar Fathin Sabili | Indonesia | Last Chance Match 20 |
| Ryuha Yamane | Japan | Last Chance Match 21 |
| Randy Rogers | USA | Last Chance Match 21 |
| Markus Penner | Germany | Last Chance Match 22 |
| Efe Alan | Turkey | Last Chance Match 22 |
| Arnaud Dumont | France | Last Chance Match 23 |
| Pavel Kadlečík | Czech Rep. | Last Chance Match 23 |
| Krystian Świderski | Poland | Last Chance Match 24 |
| Timothy Leong | Australia | Last Chance Match 24 |
| 徐晨皓 samuelxu | China | Last Chance Match 25 |
| Shinichi Aoki | Japan | Last Chance Match 25 |
| Yuki Kawabe | Japan | Last Chance Match 26 |
| Katia D-C | Poland | Last Chance Match 26 |
| Yuzheng Lian | China | Last Chance Match 27 |
| Jouni Harjumäki | Finland | Last Chance Match 27 |
| Peter Roder | UK | Last Chance Match 28 |
| Antal Tamás | Hungary | Last Chance Match 28 |
| Pavel Jaselský | Slovakia | Last Chance Match 29 |
| Rin Saiki | Japan | Last Chance Match 29 |
| Benedek Kovács | Hungary | Last Chance Match 30 |
| XiaoWei Huang | China | Last Chance Match 30 |
| Jianqiao Dong | China | Last Chance Match 31 |
| Deyan Razsadov | Bulgaria | Last Chance Match 31 |
| Teddy Tan | Philippines | Last Chance Match 32 |
| fred yang | China | Last Chance Match 32 |