World Puzzle Championship

Since 1992 the World Puzzle Federation is supervising a yearly World Puzzle Championship (WPC). The first one took place in New York. The last WPC was held in November 2011 in Eger, Hungary. The next WPC will be held in Croatia in 2012. Each national team for the WPC will consist of three or four members.

Each country organizes its own national championship to select the top three/four candidates to represent their respective countries. The Indian National Puzzle Championship used to take place every year in August - September. But from 2011, with new rules into effect, the National Championship was held in June, 2011 after a series of regional rounds from January-March, 2011. More details regarding the National Puzzle Championship can be found at the following link.

Year	Location	World Champion	Winning team
2012	Croatia	???	???
2011	Eger, Hungary	Palmer Mebane (USA)	USA
2010	Warsaw, Poland	Taro Arimatsu (Japan)	USA
2009	Antalya, Turkey	Ulrich Voigt (Germany)	Germany
2008	Minsk, Belarus	Ulrich Voigt (Germany)	USA
2007	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Pal Madarassy (Hungary)	USA
2006	Borovets, Bulgaria	Ulrich Voigt (Germany)	USA
2005	Eger, Hungary	Ulrich Voigt (Germany)	Germany
2004	Opatija, Croatia	Niels Roest (Netherlands)	USA
2003	Arnhem, Netherlands	Ulrich Voigt (Germany)	Germany
2002	Oulu, Finland	Niels Roest (Netherlands)	Japan
2001	Brno, Czech Republic	Ulrich Voigt (Germany)	USA
2000	Stamford, USA	Ulrich Voigt (Germany)	USA
1999	Budapest, Hungary	Wei Hwa Huang (USA)	USA
1998	Istanbul, Turkey	Wei Hwa Huang (USA)	USA
1997	Koprivnica, Croatia	Wei Hwa Huang (USA)	Czech Republic
1996	Utretch, Netherlands	Robert Babilon (Czech Republic)	USA
1995	Poiana Brasov, Romania	Wei Hwa Huang (USA)	USA
1994	Cologne, Germany	Ron Osher (USA)	Czech Republic
1993	Brno, Czech Republic	Robert Babilon (Czech Republic)	Czech Republic
1992	New York, USA	David Samuel (Canada)	USA