The buzz around school campuses across the country reached its peak as the third and final online round of the prestigious National Inter-School Cryptic Crossword Contest (CCCC 13.0) successfully concluded, bringing the preliminary phase of this much-anticipated annual competition to a close.

The third round witnessed enthusiastic participation from students across the nation, each team competing virtually from the comfort of their homes.

National Level Winners of CCCC 13.0

•  Rank-1: Anhad Kaur and Divya Dhiman (BCM Arya Model Sr. Sec. School
•  Rank-2: Abhishek Dhanda (BCM Arya Model Sr. Sec. School, Ludhiana)
•  Rank-3: Rudra Kumar and Shubham Shekhar (Darbhanga Junior Public School)

State-Level Winners of CCCC 13.0

•  Uttar Pradesh: Shivansh Mehta and Aditi Bhargava, Salwan Public School, Ghaziabad
•  Bihar: Shraddha Shree, St. Michaels High School, Patna
•  Telangana: Anjali Nanduri and Aradhya Ranjith, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's,Hyderabad
•  Madhya Pradesh: Deev Pandey andAditi Matta, Delhi Public School, Bhopal
•  Delhi: Saanvi Kohli and Anushka Malhi, Adarsh Public School,West Delhi
•  Maharashtra: Kavya Jha and Sachi Bardekar,Delhi Public School Pune
•  Punjab: Abhinav Gupta and Shrey Jain Delhi Public School, Ludhiana
•  Jharkhand: Shivani Singh and Krish, Delhi Public School, Ranchi
•  Andhra Pradesh: Ujwal Chopra and Priyam Jain, Nalanda Vidya Niketan, Krishna
•  Tamil Nadu: B. Akshitha and Pranati P., Delhi Public School, Coimbatore
•  West Bengal: Jitika Agarwal andSwarnava Ghosh,Vision International School, Hooghly

With the conclusion of the third round, attention now shifts to the next stage of the contest. But before that, an important step remains — the aggregation of scores from all three online rounds. The cumulative performance of each registered team across the contest will be used to determine the overall leaderboard and identify the qualifiers for the Face To Face round.