General information
The World Puzzle Federation is happy to invite you to our online puzzle and Sudoku event: gp.worldpuzzle.org
All the logical puzzles and Sudoku fans can take part and compare their results with the world’s top players without leaving the comfort of their home.
You can expect first class puzzles prepared by the top puzzle authors from all over the world. Many of the authors contributing to the GP have also prepared puzzles for the past World Puzzle / Sudoku championships. The puzzles in the Grand Prix will be designed for all the players with different solving skills, for beginners as well as for the world’s best players.
The quality of these tournaments is assured by the appointed directors responsible for the right selection of puzzles, testing and judging. The WPF GP directors are Nikola Zivanovic (Serbia) for Sudoku GP and Wei-Hwa Huang (USA) for Puzzle GP.
There will be eight rounds each in the Sudoku tournament and the Puzzle tournament. Only the top six results for each solver will be included in their final WPF Grand Prix ranking.
The format of the tournament will be paper-solving with transcription of solutions and each round will be open from Friday to Monday.
The length of each round will be 90 minutes.
More details are available on the GP website, linked to above.
Schedule and the hosting countries for 2024:
Sudoku GP 2024
Round 1 – Jan 19-22 – Netherlands
Round 2 – Feb 23-28 – France
Round 3 – Mar 15-18 – Slovakia
Round 4 – Apr 12-15 – China
Round 5 – May 10-13 – Czech Republic
Round 6 – Jun 7-10 – Turkey
Round 7 – Jul 5-8 – India
Round 8 – Aug 2-5 – Germany
Puzzle GP 2024
Round 1 – Feb 2-5 – Serbia
Round 2 – Mar 1-4 – Germany
Round 3 – Mar 29-Apr 1 – Hungary
Round 4 – Apr 26-29 – Switzerland
Round 5 – May 24-27 – USA
Round 6 – Jun 21-24 – Bulgaria
Round 7 – Jul 19-22 – South Korea
Round 8 – Aug 16-19 – Croatia
All past rounds and puzzles since 2014 are available in the GP archive.