The first World Puzzle Championship (WPC) was held in 1992 in New York, USA. In 2006 the WPF started supervising a yearly World Sudoku Championship (WSC) as well. The first one took place March 10-11, in Lucca (Italy). From 2011, the WSC and WPC are combined into a one week event (WSPC) and held around October-November. They are still two championships exclusive of each other but the hosts, website, etc. are the same so they are combined in the records too for simplicity.
The Asian Sudoku Championship (ASC) started in 2018 and is typically held at the start of the year.
All puzzles from the world championships from the last years can be bought in our archive.
- ASC 2018: Jeju Island (Korea)
- ASC 2019: Pampanga (Philippines)
- ASC 2020: Hyderabad (India)
- ASC 2023: Jeju (Korea)
- ASC 2024: Shizuoka (Japan)
- WPC 1992: New York (USA)
- WPC 1993: Brno (Czech Republic)
- WPC 1994: Cologne (Germany)
- WPC 1995: Poiana Brasov (Romania)
- WPC 1996: Utrecht (Netherlands)
- WPC 1997: Koprivnica (Croatia)
- WPC 1998: Istanbul (Turkey)
- WPC 1999: Budapest (Hungary)
- WPC 2000: Stamford (USA)
- WPC 2001: Brno (Czech Republic)
- WPC 2002: Oulu (Finland)
- WPC 2003: Arnhem (Netherlands)
- WPC 2004: Opatija (Croatia)
- WPC 2005: Eger (Hungary)
- WPC 2006: Borovets (Bulgaria)
- WPC 2007: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- WPC 2008: Minsk (Belarus)
- WPC 2009: Antalya (Turkey)
- WPC 2010: Paprotnia (Poland)
- WS+PC 2021
- WSC 2006: Lucca (Italy)
- WSC 2007: Prague (Czech Republic)
- WSC 2008: Goa (India)
- WSC 2009: Zilina (Slovakia)
- WSC 2010: Philadelphia (USA)
- WSPC 2011: Eger (Hungary)
- WSPC 2012: Kraljevica (Croatia)
- WSPC 2013: Beijing (China)
- WSPC 2014: London (UK)
- WSPC 2015: Sofia (Bulgaria)
- WSPC 2016: Senec (Slovakia)
- WSPC 2017: Bangalore (India)
- WSPC 2018: Prague (Czech Republic)
- WSPC 2019: Kirchheim (Germany)
- WSPC 2022: Krakow (Poland)
- WSPC 2023: Toronto (Kanada, co-host USA)
- WSPC 2024: Beijing (China)
WSPC hosts
Guidebook
The guidebook is the official WPF document designed for the future World Sudoku/Puzzle Championship hosts.
The rules are to be followed by the organiser and should help to run the event.
Important note: The WPF is currently working on a new version of the guidebook!