Jamshedpur : The first edition of the CBSE Cryptic Crossword Contest 2014 (CCCC 2014) has in Jamshedpur. The unique contest was held at the DBMS Kadma High School where a dozen city schools participated in the event. The students were given sheets with hints and had to solve the crossword puzzle.
Cryptic Crossword Contest 2014 is an initiation of the Central Board of Secondary Education and is being organized by Cryptic Singh. The team from Carmel Junior College was the winners followed by DAV Public School, Bistupur.
The teams will now participate in the nationals to be held in New Delhi in December. The contest is being held in 34 cities in the country. The large-scale contest covering entire country is allowing those schools to participate as well which are not affiliated to CBSE.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is organising Cryptic Crossword Contest-2014 to help students improve their vocabulary, reasoning, lateral thinking and analytical abilities. Students from classes 9 to 12 are allowed to participate in the competition which will be conducted in two phases. According to the board circular issued to all its affiliated schools, the schools located within the city as well as in the vicinity can participate in the competition.
At the city level, each team of two students will have to solve a written cryptic crossword puzzle in 30 minutes. The winner and the first runner-up teams will receive certificates and prizes and they will move to the quarterfinal round on words that will begin in Delhi from December. In the quarterfinal, selected teams from the city round will be asked to write a cryptic crossword puzzle to be solved in 30 minutes.
From this level, eight teams representing each CBSE region, along with eight other highest ranking teams, will qualify for the semifinal.
In the semifinal, the 16 qualifying teams, placed in four groups of four teams each, will participate in four separate, onstage cryptic crossword contests of 60 minutes based on a powerpoint format and compete for the finals.
The team that wins at the national level will be awarded a prize of ` 25000 each with trophies and certificates. ` 15000 cash award each for first runnerup and ` 10,000 each for teams on the third and fourth positions have been announced.
