The 6th World Puzzle Championship (and Congress) took place from September 23 – 28, 1997 in Koprivnica, Croatia.
Official results
| WPC | WPC |
| Individual | Team |
| #1 | Wei-Hwa Huang (USA) | Czech Republic |
| #2 | Ron Osher (USA) | USA |
| #3 | Robert Babilon (CZE) | Hungary |
Full results
| Rank | Name | Country | Tier | Total |
| 1 | Wei-Hwa Huang | USA | A | 2742 |
| 2 | Ron Osher | USA | A | 2548 |
| 3 | Robert Babilon | CZE | A | 2467 |
| 4 | Michael Ley | GER | A | 2440 |
| 5 | Petr Nepovím | CZE | A | 2381 |
| 6 | Miklós Mócsy | HUN | A | 2295 |
| 7 | Pavel Kalhous | CZE | A | 2237 |
| 8 | György István | HUN | A | 2212 |
| 9 | Zack Butler | USA | A | 2194 |
| 10 | Markus Gegenheimer | GER | A | 2188 |
| 11 | Hideyuki Tanaka | JPN | A | 2115 |
| 12 | Metin Balcı | TUR | A | 2046 |
| 13 | Petr Vejchoda | CZE | A | 2030 |
| 14 | Milan Chudý | SVK | A | 2012 |
| 15 | Károly Kresz | HUN | A | 1949 |
| 16 | Ferhat Çalapkulu | TUR | UN 1 | 1932 |
| 17 | Krzysztof Ligienza | POL | A | 1921 |
| 18 | Tsuyoshi Kaneko | JPN | A | 1904 |
| 19 | Nick Baxter | USA | A | 1899 |
| 20 | Gerd Prull-Aden | GER | A | 1792 |
| 21 | Umud Devrim Yalçın | TUR | A | 1763 |
| 22 | László Mérő | HUN | A | 1762 |
| 23 | Güray Erus | TUR | A | 1748 |
| 24 | Sorin Ursu | ROU | A | 1698 |
| 25 | Jan Beelen | NED | A | 1696 |
| 26 | Miroslav Ploščica | SVK | A | 1684 |
| 27 | Ján Farkáš | SVK | A | 1627 |
| 28 | Kamer Alyanakyan | TUR | A | 1615 |
| 29 | Pavol Tibenský | SVK | A | 1602 |
| 30 | Ivan Grishchenko | RUS | A | 1538 |
| 31 | Juha Hyvönen | FIN | A | 1473 |
| 32 | Andreas Bolotă | ROU | A | 1453 |
| 33 | Yukio Sugimoto | JPN | A | 1426 |
| 34 | Jeroen Meewisse | NED | A | 1400 |
| 35 | Evgeny Aroutiounov | RUS | A | 1363 |
| 36 | Michał Stajszczak | POL | A | 1349 |
| 37 | Luka Pavičić | CRO | A | 1341 |
| 38 | Stanley Newman | USA | UN 1 | 1340 |
| 39 | Hans Eendebak | NED | A | 1319 |
| 40 | Manfred Heynisch | GER | A | 1295 |
| 40 | Emeric Lörincz | ROU | A | 1295 |
| 42 | Peter Ritmeester | NED | A | 1277 |
| 43 | Darko Galić | CRO | A | 1273 |
| 44 | Cacuci Stelian-Radu | ROU | A | 1266 |
| 45 | Masayuki Tsunaiguchi | JPN | A | 1242 |
| 46 | Adnan Spahić | BIH | A | 1225 |
| 47 | Lech Bogusz | POL | A | 1222 |
| 48 | Roman Trocha | POL | A | 1209 |
| 49 | Olga Leontieva | RUS | A | 1203 |
| 50 | Željko Jandragić | CRO | A | 1190 |
| 51 | Andrey Khodulyov | RUS | A | 1144 |
| 52 | Juhani Heino | FIN | A | 1134 |
| 53 | Boris Nazansky | CRO | A | 1066 |
| 54 | Erkki Kiiski | FIN | A | 943 |
| 55 | Andriy German | UKR | A | 895 |
| 56 | Serhiy Grabarchuk | UKR | A | 780 |
| 57 | Emir Vučijak | BIH | A | 742 |
| 58 | Sanela Osmanović | BIH | A | 740 |
| 59 | Mikhail Khotiner | UKR | A | 668 |
| 60 | Pekka Joutsi | FIN | A | 655 |
| 61 | Hinako Nakazawa | JPN | UN 1 | 481 |
| 62 | Mesud Malkoc | BIH | A | 460 |
| 63 | Xhelal Abrashi | KOS | UN 1 | 437 |
| 64 | Alexandr Stepanouchkin | UKR | A | 334 |
| Rank | Country | Tier | Score |
| 1 | CZE | A | 9415 |
| 2 | USA | A | 9383 |
| 3 | HUN | A | 8518 |
| 4 | GER | A | 8215 |
| 5 | TUR | A | 7522 |
| 6 | SVK | A | 7225 |
| 7 | JPN | A | 7087 |
| 8 | ROU | A | 6012 |
| 9 | NED | A | 5992 |
| 10 | POL | A | 5701 |
| 11 | RUS | A | 5548 |
| 12 | CRO | A | 5170 |
| 13 | UN | UN 1 | 4490 |
| 14 | FIN | A | 4205 |
| 15 | BIH | A | 3467 |
| 16 | UKR | A | 2977 |
