All resident Indian nationals, irrespective of age, can participate in Indian Sudoku Championship. The Championship will be an online test on March 14-15, 2009. The sudoku-solving skills of contestants will be tested using different sudoku variations which appear in the WSCs. Top rankers at the Indian Sudoku Championship will be eligible to represent India at the 4th World Sudoku Championship to be held in Zilina in April 2009.

The Indian Sudoku Championship will consist of 3 parts each of 45 minutes.
All three parts of the test will be held twice on 14th and 15th March 2009 to account for network problems for the participants. The best of two scores for each part across both days will be counted in the final score for each participant. The schedule is as follows:

14:00 - 14:45 Classic Sudoku
15:00 - 15:45 Basic variants relay
16:00 - 16:45 New variants

10:00 - 10:45 Classic Sudoku
11:00 - 11:45 Basic variants relay
12:00 - 12:45 New variants

Ranking will be done on the basis of total score. Ties will be broken using the following rules in order:

• Fewest number of incorrect answers (blank answers are ignored)
• Earliest time stamp

External help of any kind is not permitted. This means no assistance of any kind from any other person, also any books, calculators, computers or tools other than the items explicitly permitted. Writing instruments of any shape or design, erasers, rulers and paper are allowed.

Instruction Booklet, Points Table, Sudoku Booklets and Answer Booklets can be downloaded from here

Congratulations to all the toppers and Ritesh Gupta for being the national champion for a third consecutive year. Gaurav Korde, who was leading after the first day, stood in second position amongst the Indians. Thanks a lot to all the guest participants for contributing towards a successful event.

Click here for all results.