It may have been the last round of the year, but all guns were blazing and there were some great matchups. In the Grand Combined Tournament, Martin Merker and Kota Morinishi were well matched, and there were only three places and 35 points between the two warriors, but Kota prevailed in the end.The Puzzle Big… Read more: Final Winners crowned

The Stream concluded their dominant season of the Puzzle Franchise Faceoff with a clear victory over the top-heavy Stars. As usual, Desirée Wilson, Edouard Lebeau and Chen-Xiu Lin put in strong performances, meaning that the Stream only had to find one more win in their middle order, following the expected victories for the Stars’ stars,… Read more: Stream win PFF 2026

Nearly every matchup went the way of the season average, but this didn’t tell the full story of the Sudoku Franchise Faceoff final. The two standout players of the season faced off, but Lucy Epstein nearly doubled Vincent Bertrand’s showing in an ominous display. The only matchup which was overturned was Sed Holaysan defeating Hikaru… Read more: Redwoods hold strong to defeat Bears

The sudoku casual cups came to a thrilling end as Suzhe QIU defeated Letian Ming by just 6 points to take the Red title. The other winners were as follows:Orange: CJ Tan (Philippines)Yellow: Frank Wang (USA)Green: 雨 南宫(China)Blue: Matej Vyparina (Slovakia)Indigo: Yasuto Kitazono (Japan)Violet: Xuefeng Chen (China)Pink: jerome BOULLEE (France)Suzhe doubled up by also winning… Read more: Final Sudoku Champions crowned

The Stars midfield put in two huge performances to upset the Reds and take their place in next month’s final. Jordyn Hyde and CJ Tan both added around 200 points to their season average to put up scores that Diana Grigoreva and Jiachen Tang would have struggled to match, but in the end they didn’t… Read more: Stars edge past Reds to set up Stream final

An incredible finish to the Puzzle World Cup saw author Walker Anderson replaced by Jeffrey Bardon and Thomas Luo changing name to Selene Luo, and this combination edging Japan to win the Puzzle World Cup!The Puzzle Big Cup also reached the final round, with both Ken Endo and Freddie Hand winning their semi finals convincingly… Read more: USA edge Japan to Puzzle World Cup

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