Two evenly matched semi finals resulted in Vincent Bertrand’s Bears facing Lucy Epstein’s Redwoods in next month’s final.The Giants’ Hannes Sidorov surprised Bears’ Matteo Fedeli, but a no show from Harsh Poddar ended Giants’ competition. In the second semi final, Soul had some problems as CJ Tan posted below his average and Se Joon Jang… Read more: Bears face Redwoods in Sudoku Franchise Final

Kota Morinishi produced a big performance alongside Ken Endo to defeat Vietnam’s Khả Lê Minh and Đức Chiến Nguyễn and take the 2026 Sudoku World Cup – https://www.thepuzzle.place/sudoku-world-cup/Meanwhile, Suzhe Qiu and Seungjae Kwak reached the Big Cup final, which will take place next month – https://www.thepuzzle.place/sudoku-big-cup-2026/The Last Chance Cup Final will also take place and… Read more: Japan defeat Vietnam to take 2026 Sudoku World Cup

The puzzle casual cups have now reached the finals. The red cup has another meeting between Freddie Hand and Ken Endo, with Thomas Luo there as a threat to them both. The USA contribute several more finalists across the different tiers too with Joshua Fernandes and the impressive Frank Wang in the orange final, Patrick… Read more: Lining up for the puzzle finals

There were no surprises in the final round of the league stage of the Puzzle Franchise Faceoff. Stream won their fourth round and go into the playoffs as strong favourites. Michael Kreiger was the top contributor for the second round in a row, ably supported by Ivan Adrian Koswara and Desirée Wilson as many solvers… Read more: Can the Stream be stopped?

The 2026 Puzzle Levelled Cups are now complete so we have more champions to crown. Well done!555 Cup: Kazuya Yamamoto (Japan)460 Cup: Aleksei Daniliuk (UK)360 Cup: Marcin Smulewicz (Switzerland)280 Cup: Brett Tyrrell (USA)200 Cup: Dmitriy Popov (Russia)155 Cup: Asterios Varsamis-Kyratlidis (Greece)https://www.thepuzzle.place/puzzle-cups-2026/Meanwhile, the Big Cup has reached the semi finals, where Japanese greats Kota Morinishi and… Read more: Puzzle Champions

The lineups for the Sudoku Casual Cups are now ready. These contests remove one element of luck by giving each competitor two chances to record a high score, and counting the top solvers with at least 4 results from last year, so this gives us some very strong lineups.https://www.thepuzzle.place/sudoku-casual-cups/The Sudoku World Cup gets ready for… Read more: Getting ready for the finals

Giants edged the Blues by just 33 points to make it into the Sudoku Franchise Faceoff playoffs, thanks largely to Xingjian Cui, Hannes Sidorov and Hideaki Jo. Vincent Bertrand, Claudine Thiry, Matteo Fedeli and Hikaru Muraoka all scored well this week to take Bears to top spot and another weekly win, while Lucy Epstein’s brilliant… Read more: Giants edge Blues to make playoffs

The 2026 Sudoku Levelled Cups are complete.Congratulations to our winners!Zihang Liu (China) – 540 cupNora Borst (USA) – 420 cupBoyan Dong (China) – 355 cupKeheng Hou (China) – 300 cupPeter Hornak (Slovakia) – 256 cupXuefeng Chen (China) – 208 cupDan Stronger (USA) – 160 cupYoonah Cho (South Korea) – 80 cuphttps://www.thepuzzle.place/sudoku-cups-2026/Meanwhile, the Big Cup has… Read more: Sudoku Champions!

Asterios Varsamis-Kyratlidis took the first silverware of 2026 with a 288-214 win over Manuel Ukota in the 155 Cup. The other five cup finals are ready for Round 6:555: Xingjuan Cui (China) vs Kazuya Yamamoto (Japan)460: Kazuki Sugiura (Japan) vs Aleksei Daniliuk (UK)360: Sébastien Tainon (France) vs Marcin Smulewicz (Poland)280: Marek Oja (Estonia) vs Brett… Read more: Glory for Greece

The big names showed up in the Puzzle World Cup quarter finals as 3 of the top 4 scorers led their country to victory. Ken Endo’s Japan beat France, Freddie Hand’s UK beat Estonia and Walker Anderson’s USA beat Türkiye. Meanwhile, Robert Vollmert left Christian König to fend for himself, and he just got enough… Read more: Big Names Shine

With one round left in the Puzzle Franchise Faceoff league stage, three teams have secured their playoff spots. Stream’s strong season continued as their strong squad took their third win, thanks to Michael Kreiger, Ivam Adrian Koswara, Chen-Ziu Lin and Denis Auroux. Stars are the other team to have won rounds this year, and they… Read more: One spot left in PFF Playoffs

The Grand Combined Tournament is on the cusp of the quarter finals now. Eight solvers remain unbeaten, and there are lots of big names, but Freddie Hand vs Ken Endo will not disappoint. The four winners of these matches take their places in the quarter finals, and then there will be 32 remaining to face… Read more: Big Guns collide

Soul grabbed the top spot for Round 5 to occupy one of the playoff spots with just one round to go. Led by CJ Tan and hyuk sun Kwon, the whole team contributed to take the edge over the Bears, who showed their depth as Vincent Bertrand had a relatively quiet showing, and Jordyn Hyde… Read more: The Soul Train is coming

The Sudoku Levelled Finals are ready! 5 finals contain Chinese solvers – how many will they scoop?540 cup – Salih Alan (Turkey) vs Zihang Liu (China)420 cup – Yuta Nagata (Japan) vs Nora Borst (USA)355 cup – Boyan Dong (China) vs Sara Terveer (Germany)300 cup – Keheng Hou (China) vs Ulla Elsilä (Finland)256 cup –… Read more: Sudoku Levelled Finals ready

Miakinen and Xingjian’s Stars doubled up to give themselves a 10 point buffer with two league stage rounds to go in a round where only eight solvers bettered their 2025 average. Legacy’s Bekishev and Kisel were two of these eight, steering Legacy to their first points of the season in second place. Martin Ender’s Gold… Read more: Navigating by the Stars

The Puzzle 155 Cup will be the first to crown a champion next time around. Croatia’s Manuel Ukota will face Greece’s Asterios Varsamis-Kyratlidis for the first silverware of the season. The other levelled cups have reached the semi final stages and offer players with lower scores a chance for a trophy – https://www.thepuzzle.place/puzzle-cups-2026/The Big Cup… Read more: First Final Decided

The Redwoods became the fourth different winners in the first four weeks, but this does mean that no team has yet booked their place in the playoffs. The Redwoods are one of only two teams to score in each round so far, which is particularly impressive when their second highest averaging player has not been… Read more: Redwoods stand tall

The sudoku cups are getting to the serious stages now!The big cup has the first two semi finalists. Vincent Bertrand used his great form and a rare blip from Tantan Dai to book his place, and Suzhe Qiu showed perfect timing to win his first GP round and book his. There are eight contenders left… Read more: Sudoku Cups get serious

Lucy Epstein’s seventh place finish in GP Round 4 helped USA to overcome a spirited Latvia side and book their place in the quarter finals, posting a total score which suggests that their upcoming match against China will be very close! South Korea overturned a 200 point gap in their season averages to upset India,… Read more: Epstein’s USA soar into quarters

The final group games of the Puzzle World Cup have concluded and they were thrilling!In Group B, India edged out South Korea to set up a knockout match against the form team Estonia, who completed their clean sweep of group F in style. Belarus disappointed the Philippines as Greece shocked China when neither of their… Read more: Puzzle World Cup update