Love puzzles? Enter our contest and get your riddle featured in the next ER Champ Stress Test!

Design a puzzle and see it come to life in the Stress Test 2026

Just like last year, we're organizing a puzzle contest!  The best puzzle submitted to us will be featured in next year’s Stress Test 2026. This contest is open to all puzzle enthusiasts who dream of seeing their creation recognized and enjoyed by fellow puzzle lovers around the world.

To win the contest, design a puzzle that meets several criteria. The puzzle:

• can have only one solution,
• must be designed with the point and click technology in mind, in which we create ER Champ games - must not use sound or video,
• must be free of legal defects - it must be your original puzzle, although it can be based on known mechanics,
• must be designed in English or be language independent.

Send a puzzle with details and a description of the solution via email titled 'Puzzle contest ER Champ 2025' at hello@erchamp.com. Sign your name or nickname - these details will be made public when the results are announced.

We are waiting for submissions until October 14 at 21:59 UTC. We will publish the results of the contest on the ER Champ Finals Live stream on October 20 at around 17:00-19:00 EEST.

We will contact the winner individually via the email address from which the contest puzzle was sent.  

By submitting a contest entry, you accept the following contest's conditions.

Competition Regulations

§1 Organizer of the contest

The contest "Create a puzzle 2025", hereinafter referred to as the contest, is organized by Lockme sp. z o.o., the owner of the Lockme and ER Champ brands, based in Wrocław, ul. Ofiar Oświęcimskich, 50-069 Wrocław, entered in the National Court Register (KRS) under number 0000942965 WR.VI NS-REJ, NIP 8971900213, hereinafter referred to as Organizer.

§2 Duration of the contest

The contest runs from October 8, 2025, to October 14, 2025, at 21:59 UTC (inclusive).

§3 Rules of the contest

Contest participant must be of legal age.

The participant of the contest cannot be a person who is:

• a member of the organizer's immediate family,
• an employee of the organizer,
• connected with the organizer by a contract of mandate, contract for work, contract for cooperation, contract for services or in any other way cooperates with the organizer.

Members of the immediate family are considered to be:

• Ascendants,
• Descendants,
• Siblings,
• Partners,
• A person in an adoption relationship.

The contest is creative in nature. In order to participate in the contest, you must create and submit a puzzle from 8.10.2025 to 14.10.2025 that can be used in next year's ER Champ systems load test - "Stress test".

The riddle must be:

• logical,
• have only one solution,
• designed with point and click technology in mind, in which we create ER Champ,
• in text and picture form only, must not use sound or video,
• free from legal defects,
• original, although it may be based on known mechanics,
• designed in English or be language independent.

The creator of the puzzle transfers to the organizer the rights to use the puzzle designed by him/her. Each participant can submit only one puzzle. 

Submissions should be sent by email to hello@erchamp.com. The email should be titled ‘Puzzle contest ER Champ 2025’. Please sign the email with the submission with your nickname or name, which will be made public when the results are announced.

§4 Selection of the winner

The winners of the contest will be selected by the Jury consisting of Bartosz Idzikowski, Jakub Caban. When choosing the winners, the Jury will evaluate the creativity of the submitted puzzles. The results of the contest will be published on the ER Champ 2025 Finals Livestream on YouTube on 20.10.2025. After the announcement of the results, the organizer will contact the winners via the email from which the contest entries were sent.

The Jury’s decision is final and not subject to appeal.

§5 Prize in the contest

The prize in the contest is the inclusion of the winning puzzle in the ER Champ 2026 Stress Test, with full credit given to its author (nickname or name as provided in the submission).

The prize cannot be exchanged for cash or any other form of compensation.

§6 Complaints

Complaints related to the contest can be submitted by e-mail to hello@erchamp.com. The title of the message must contain the phrase "Complaint - Puzzle contest ER Champ 2025". Complaints can be submitted for a maximum of 2 days after the contest results are announced. The organizer has 14 days to respond to the complaint. Complaints submitted after this period will not be considered.

§7 Personal data

All data collected during the contest are processed in accordance with erchamp.com privacy policy available at: CLICK

§8 Final provisions

The organizer reserves the right to change these regulations at any time without prior notice.

The organizer also reserves the right to cancel the contest without selecting a winner if the number of submitted puzzles is insufficient or if the submitted entries do not meet the contest criteria.

In any matters not covered by these Regulations, the provisions of Polish law shall apply.