The 5th World Puzzle Championship (and Congress) took place from October 15 – 19, 1996 in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Official results
| WPC | WPC |
| Individual | Team |
| #1 | Robert Babilon (CZE) | USA |
| #2 | Zack Butler (USA) | Czech Republic |
| #3 | Wei-Hwa Huang (USA) | Turkey |
Full results
(Individual round scores unavailable. Unverified results.)
| Official Rank | Rank | Name | Country | Tier | Score |
| 1 | 1 | Robert Babilon | CZE | A | 692 |
| 2 | 2 | Zack Butler | USA | A | 632 |
| 3 | 3 | Wei-Hwa Huang | USA | A | 624 |
| 4 | 4 | Pavel Kalhous | CZE | A | 550 |
| 5 | 5 | Ron Osher | USA | A | 531 |
| 6 | 6 | Paul Jacobs | NED | A | 527 |
| 7 | 7 | Nick Baxter | USA | A | 516 |
| 8 | 8 | Markus Gegenheimer | GER | A | 509 |
| 9 | 9 | Petr Nepovím | CZE | A | 489 |
| 10 | 10 | Güray Erus | TUR | A | 488 |
| 11 | 11 | Jan Beelen | NED | A | 484 |
| 12 | 12 | Andrey Khodulyov | RUS | A | 468 |
| 13 | 13 | Miroslav Ploščica | SVK | A | 439 |
| 14 | 14 | Michael Ley | GER | A | 428 |
| 15 | 15 | Tadami Nagahama | JPN | A | 425 |
| 16 | 16 | Károly Kresz | HUN | A | 423 |
| 17 | 17 | Kamer Alyanakyan | TUR | A | 416 |
| 18 | 18 | Hüsnü Sincar | TUR | A | 413 |
| 19 | 19 | György István | HUN | A | 408 |
| 20 | 20 | Ivan Grishchenko | RUS | A | 393 |
| 21 | 21 | Ferhat Çalapkulu | TUR | A | 382 |
| 22 | 22 | Krzysztof Ligienza | POL | A | 378 |
| 23 | Jeroen Meewisse | NED | | 366 |
| 23 | 23 | Zdeněk Vodička | CZE | A | 366 |
| 24 | 25 | Maria Pietrys | POL | A | 357 |
| 25 | 26 | Sorin Ursu | ROU | A | 354 |
| 26 | 27 | Juha Hyvönen | FIN | UN 1 | 342 |
| 27 | 28 | Tazusa Yamaki | JPN | A | 337 |
| 28 | 29 | Florin Georgescu | ROU | A | 336 |
| 29 | 30 | Roman Trocha | POL | A | 336 |
| 30 | 31 | Milan Chudý | SVK | A | 334 |
| 31 | 32 | Włodzimierz Stajszczak | POL | A | 332 |
| 32 | 33 | László Nagy | HUN | A | 328 |
| 33 | 34 | Erik van den Doel | NED | A | 321 |
| 33 | 34 | Juhani Heino | FIN | UN 1 | 320 |
| 35 | 36 | Bence Kodaj | HUN | A | 318 |
| 36 | 37 | Emeric Lörincz | ROU | A | 318 |
| 37 | 38 | Evgeny Aroutiounov | RUS | A | 315 |
| 37 | 38 | Silke Ritter | GER | A | 315 |
| 39 | 40 | Pavol Tibenský | SVK | A | 300 |
| 40 | 41 | Mikako Aoki | JPN | A | 299 |
| 41 | 42 | Alexey Oustinov | RUS | A | 286 |
| 42 | 43 | Rien Verbeek | NED | A | 283 |
| 43 | 44 | Pero Galogaža | CRO | A | 271 |
| 44 | 45 | Manfred Heynisch | GER | A | 268 |
| 45 | 46 | Minako Sakai | JPN | A | 265 |
| 46 | 47 | Asime Can Özözer | TUR | UN 1 | 264 |
| 47 | 48 | Andreas Bolotă | ROU | A | 260 |
| 48 | 49 | Nenad Skitarelić | CRO | A | 247 |
| 49 | 50 | Ján Farkáš | SVK | A | 245 |
| 50 | 51 | Darko Galić | CRO | A | 240 |
| 51 | 52 | Stuart Maddison | GBR | A | 205 |
| 52 | 53 | Boris Nazansky | CRO | A | 188 |
| 53 | 54 | Nick Savage | GBR | A | 170 |
| 54 | 55 | Chris Yates | GBR | A | 147 |
| 55 | 56 | Meriel Lewis | GBR | A | 129 |
| 56 | 57 | Nur Akman | TUR | UN 1 | 117 |
| Rank | Country | Tier | Score |
| 1 | USA | A | 3013 |
| 2 | CZE | A | 2557 |
| 3 | TUR | A | 2149 |
| 4 | NED | A | 2135 |
| 5 | POL | A | 1933 |
| 6 | RUS | A | 1872 |
| 7 | GER | A | 1840 |
| 8 | JPN | A | 1726 |
| 9 | HUN | A | 1657 |
| 10 | SVK | A | 1638 |
| 11 | ROU | A | 1588 |
| 12 | UN | UN 1 | 1313 |
| 13 | CRO | A | 1066 |
| 14 | GBR | A | 811 |
