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*14 days

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Aah okay, so the 24 videos are the round names and/or themes for the WPC 2026.

Yes.

After some more thoughts,

Raghu Clan/lineage = Classics

Vanaras Assemble = Team round

Search for Sita = Relay round

Bridge to Lanka = Mechanical/Linked round

We can play mastermind with these guesses. You get one black dot.

Ahaha :D

Mail from Tawan:

WPC:
1. A throwback to previous LMI tests or PR rounds.
2. Puzzles with clues being transferred from other puzzles. And demons.
3. Hard variants with arrows. As hard as the task done by Indian Odysseus.
4. Star Battle.
5. Tents, Battleships, Snake, Water Walk - trying to go for the forest / river theme here.
6. Long round, mixed variants. Time limit is 14 years.
7. Puzzles with minimal clues.
8. A team round where puzzles have to be solved in order.
9. Variants with disguised, false, liar clues.
10. Sprint round with many easy puzzles.
11. Region division.
12. Clouds, Dosun Fuwari, Sun and Moon - anything from the sky.
13. Loop and path puzzles.
14. Matching rule sets to each grid.
15. Big interlinked puzzle laid out in 4 cardinal directions.
16. Cave variants.
17. Large round with mixed variants. Might contain bananas for my boy Hanuman.
18. Castle Walls.
19. A round of Hashi. Fun.
20. We use pieces to fill in puzzles with gaps before solving them.
21. Puzzles look alike but uses different rule sets.
22. Difficult, large puzzles.
23. Puzzles solved as clones or twins.
24. A round with bits of everything in previous rounds.