One of the main goals of the WPF is to supervise the annual World Puzzle Championship (WPC).

The first championship was held in 1992 in New York, USA. You can see a list of all past, present, and future championships via the links on the left of this page.

Official books on these championships have been published ever since 1992. These books contain reports, results and lots of puzzles. You can read about them in our section about publications.

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).

The World Puzzle Federation is an association of legal bodies with an interest in puzzles. Only one organization per country can belong to the WPF. The WPF follows the Olympic standard in what constitutes a country. Information on present members, criteria for membership, benefits of membership and how to join, is to be found in the Member's Section.

Goals of the World Puzzle Federation are:

• to provide the means for an international exchange of puzzle ideas
• to stimulate innovations in the field of puzzles
• to supervise the annual World Puzzle Championship (WPC) and other puzzle activities
• to foster friendship among puzzle enthusiasts world-wide.

Chairman: Valter Kvalic (Croatia)
General Secretary: Peter Ritmeester (The Netherlands)