ACPT Online Solving

Solve online the puzzles played at the live tournament (years 2007-2019). Compare your scores with other online solvers! You choose a "player name" which others will see. The online competition is for fun and bragging rights only, not for prizes.

THE 2020 TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2020.

Step 1: Get Your Account

If this is your first online tournament, please create an account. Your email address and a password are your "ticket" to the puzzles.

CREATE NEW ACCOUNT

Step 2: Solve Sample Puzzles

Solve sample puzzles using the software, including puzzles from an earlier Tournament. Take some time to get used to working with the software so you can be more competitive! Be sure to create an account first, or that you have an account from previous years.

Step 3: Purchase Your Puzzles

Step 4: Get Solving!

When you are ready to solve, log in above with your email address and password to gain access to the puzzles. Any puzzles up to the current tournament can be solved right away. If you are solving along with this years' tournament, see the schedule below.

Access to the online puzzles for the upcoming, rescheduled 2020 tournament begins on Saturday, September 12, 2020:

Puzzle 1 - noon
Puzzle 2 - 1pm
Puzzle 3 - 2pm
Puzzle 4 - 4pm
Puzzle 5 - 5pm
Puzzle 6 - 6pm
Puzzle 7 - Sunday noon
Playoff* - Sunday 3pm

All times Eastern.
*You may solve all 3 sets of clues for the playoff puzzle: A (hardest), B (hard), C (least hard), which do not count toward your score

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