Edith Puzzles the World

Edith is back again at 4PM Spain time (10AM US Eastern) for her Individual Semifinal!

How’s it work?

The top 85 competitors from rounds A and B will be duking it out for a chance to advance to the Finals on Saturday. This time every puzzler will be receiving the same totally new, unreleased puzzle to finish as fast as they can, with only 75 minutes of time available. But remember, this is now a condensed field of very skilled puzzlers who moved on from the first round!

How to watch

Here’s the Livestream on YouTube, which will also be watchable after the event is over.

How did Edith do?

Here’s the results page, which will probably take a while to be fully updated and accurate. It may crash as too many people are trying to view it so please be patient. Also remember that rankings will take a while to be finalized as times continue to be entered, and not necessarily in the order they finished. We’ll know times are final and official when puzzlers who qualified have a flashing “Q” next to them.

What’s at stake?

This time Edith needs to be in the top 60 times in her group to move on to the individual Finals on Saturday.

Who’s her competition?

We’ve seen some great performances from puzzlers in rounds A and B. Wiktor from Poland is certainly a strong contender to win the entire competition, so many eyes will be on him. Jana from Czech Republic and Chiara from Italy should still give a good showing. Hannah Doyle was a close second at US nationals in April. And of course there are lots of other names here capable of posting great times. Keep in mind that unreleased puzzles may yield some different results from the first round (for example, I don’t think Wiktor will manage a 22 minute finish like he did yesterday 😲).