1. To participate in NICE, you must first register yourself for the championship on www.crypticsingh.com. Once the registration is done, your NICE username and password will appear on your screen after successful registration and will be sent to you via email. .

2. Use the log-in credentials sent to you for all the online rounds.

3. The rounds will involve solving the crossword clues which will be posted at 1030 Hours IST on every Sunday on www.crypticsingh.com under the head or android app NICE.

4. You will be required to submit your solutions by 1700 Hours IST on the same day.

5. The person with the fastest and all correct solutions will be awarded 10000 points. The scores will move in a descending order based on the time taken and correctness of the solutions.

6. A Leaderboard of the leading students will be created for every Round, for each participating institutions, city, state, zone, apart from a National Leaderboard. It shall be posted on www.crypticsingh.com/NICE.

7. A cumulative total score of all the persons for the Online Clue Rounds will be used for the Final Leaderboard after the Online Rounds.