ACAD QUAD 2026
Recap 2025

2. Eligibility:
2.1. All ACAD participants, belonging to any of the four categories, will have access to the game page of all the four versions.
2.2. Anyone who plays any version of the game, will get to know his/her rank in that category, immediately after submission (for his/ her personal information).
2.3. The participants would be eligible to be the part of the leaderboard of only that category for which they have registered.
2.4. Any ACAD Senior, ACAD College and ACAD school participant can be part two leaderboards, one belonging to their respective categories, and the other pertaining to ACAD Global (in case he/she has participated in the same).
2.5. ACAD Global participants would be eligible to be part of only the ACAD Global leaderboard.

3. Registration
3.1. There is a common registration form for all the categories. At the time of registration, one has to choose the category in which he/she wants his/her name to appear.
3.2. School and College students should provide the proof of studying in school & college by uploading their I-cards (in file size not exceeding 1MB)
3.3. Participants of ACAD Elder should upload age proof if they want their names on the ACAD Elder leaderboard.
3.4. In case one fails to choose the category, his/her name will appear in ACAD GLOBAL leaderboard by default.
3.5. Registration for ACAD QUAD can be done at www.crypticsingh.com Once the registration is successfully done, username and password will be sent via email/SMS.
3.6. Those who had participated in ACAD 2025, need not register afresh. They will be allotted their respective participation category i.e. Global/Elder/College/ School on the basis of existing database. In case there is some discrepancy with regard to the allotted category, the same may be rectified by writing along with full details, to extracindia@gmail.com.
4. Participation.
4.1. Use the log-in credentials sent to your email/phone for solving the clues.
4.2. There will be non-competitive phase from 27th Jan to 31st Jan 2026 followed by competitive phase from 1st February to 31st October 2026.
4.3 Based on correctness of the solution and speed of submissions, scores will be awarded. The scores will move in a descending order based on the time taken and correctness of the solutions.
4.4 A Leaderboard shall be posted on www.crypticsingh.com. At the end of each month, winners will be announced on the website.
5. General
5.1 For any query/ suggestion /information, mail may be sent to extracindia@gmail.com.
5.2. Organiser’s decision will be final for all issues related to the competition.