MoE invites applications for National Inter-College Crossword Expedition 2022

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Education has invited colleges and universities to participate in National Inter-College Crossword Expedition (NICE) 2022. Interested students can register for the crossword competition at the official website - nice.crypticsingh.com/register.

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“Brace yourself for the National Inter-college Crossword Expedition 2022! Put your grey cells to work and win prizes. To register, click https://nice.crypticsingh.com/register,” MoE tweeted.

Brace yourself for the National Inter-college Crossword Expedition 2022! Put your grey cells to work and win prizes. To register, click https://t.co/vPjBfWRVdj pic.twitter.com/ZLeQ1UVhT0

— Ministry of Education (@EduMinOfIndia) March 16, 2022

NICE 2022 guidelines

• The game is open to all college, university students.
• Any bonafide student of a higher education institute in India, recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) or All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), is eligible to participate.
• Stage I is a student, institution round to be played in an online format.
• A set of 10 clues will be posted every Sunday at 10.30 am, starting from April 3, 2022 and the 4th and the last weekly round taking place on April 24, 2022.
• The top two performers from each institute will form a two-member team to represent their institute.
• Stage II comprises Zonal Rounds in an offline format to be conducted at designated host institutes in select cities for five zones: North, South, West, East and Northeast
• The rounds will have a preliminary pen-paper format involving 50 top teams in each zone, culminating in an onstage final between six highest scoring teams.
• In Stage III, three top teams from each zone advance to the offline onstage National Grand Finale to be held in New Delhi.

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Eligible students can first register for the contest on crypticsingh.com. Username and password will appear on screen after successful registration and will be sent to candidates via email. Candidates can use the log-in credentials for all the online rounds.

A practice online round will be conducted on the website at 10:30 am on April 2, 2022 as a familiarization exercise ahead of the start of the contest.