ACAD QUAD March 2026 Winners Announced: Students from Patna, Kerala & Chennai Shine in Crossword Challenge

Dhairya Pandey of Don Bosco Academy, Patna; Shraddha Shree of St. Michael’s High School, Patna; Jacob Brahmakulam of Thrissur, Kerala; and Ramakrishnan Krishnan of Chennai have won the 1st position in four different categories of the online daily crossword challenge known as ACAD QUAD, for the month of March 2026. The competitive phase of this year-long contest runs between February 1 and October 31 every year. The categories in which Dhairya, Shraddha, Jacob, and Ramakrishnan have stamped their superiority are ACAD School, ACAD College, ACAD Senior, and ACAD Global, respectively.

In the School category, Dilkhus Kumar and Bittu Kumar, both from Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Residential School, Begusarai, Bihar, have, respectively, won 2nd and 3rd positions. Samriddhi Salgaonkar of Goa Dental College and Tisha Taneja of IIT Madras have taken 2nd and 3rd positions, respectively, in the College category. In the Senior category, 2nd and 3rd positions have gone to R. Uma and N. Rengaswamy, respectively. Both are from Chennai. Samit Kallianpur of Secunderabad and Mona Sogal of Bengaluru have clinched 2nd and 3rd spots, respectively, in the Global category.

A-Clue-A-Day (ACAD) online challenge began in the year 2014 to engage school students on a daily basis to provide a quality pastime that also worked as a learning tool combining fun. Over more than a decade, this has grown as a four-segment contest on an overwhelmingly popular demand. Conducted by Extra-C, a civil society initiative, it is conducted on the organization’s official website www.crypticsingh.com. While the first two categories are obvious by their nomenclature, ACAD Senior is meant for participants in the age-group of 60 and above. ACAD Global is for anyone anywhere in the world who wants to partake of this intellectually invigorating experience.

The participation at any stage of the contest is free of cost. A participant may register on the website, get a password, and enter the game daily. There are surprise gifts for top performers in different categories.