Andres Kuusk

7× World Pentamind Champion — the most successful all-around mind sports competitor in history

Author of Unlocking the Success Puzzle • Speaker • PhD • C-suite executive

I study how decisions are made — and test them where outcomes matter.

Andres Kuusk has won the World Pentamind Championship a record seven times at the World Mind Sports Olympiad. The Pentamind is widely regarded as the ultimate test of mental versatility, combining performance across multiple strategy and logic disciplines. It celebrates the best all-round games player in the world.
Beyond competition, Andres works at the intersection of performance, strategy, and decision science. He is the author of Unlocking the Success Puzzle, a speaker on high performance and mental excellence, and the designer of strategic board games. His work helps individuals and organizations apply the principles of elite thinking to real-world success.

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Speaking
Andres speaks about decision-making, performance under pressure, and the mental systems behind consistent success.Topics include:
• How top performers make decisions
• Hidden biases that derail success
• Building systems for focus and progress
• Thinking clearly in high-stakes situationsAvailable for conferences, corporate events, and workshops.

Stay Connected

• Follow Andres on LinkedIn for insights on performance, decision-making, and upcoming projects.

_{This site will expand over time to include additional projects in games, mind sports, and strategy.}

• Preorder the book

• Discover the Success Puzzle

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Unlocking the Success Puzzle

A book about decisions that compound — and the systems behind them.

What the book does
Unlocking the Success Puzzle presents a decision-making framework built around efficiency and bias recognition.
It focuses less on goals, and more on the systems that quietly determine whether those goals are ever reached.

This book:

This book is not:

Why this matters
Most people don’t fail because they make bad decisions once.
They fail because they repeat slightly wrong decisions for years — without noticing the pattern.
This book is about learning to see those patterns early, and redesigning them deliberately.

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“This book doesn’t just promise change — it delivers it.”
— Jordi Alexander, CIO of Selini Capital & WSOP Bracelet winner
_{📘 Publishing April 2026 · Early readers get priority access}

Status / updates
The book is available now, with additional essays and updates planned.
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Scandinavia

A strategic board game about territory, timing, and long-term control.

Prototype
Current prototype components and board layout.

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The idea
Scandinavia is a competitive strategy board game inspired by Nordic history and geography.
Players expand, raid, and consolidate territory in an environment where strategy and planning reign over luck and randomness.
The game rewards foresight, patience, and the ability to think several turns ahead.

Design philosophy
At its core, Scandinavia is about decision-making under constraint.
-> Every move creates future obligations
-> Expansion carries risk
-> Timing matters more than aggression
Short-term gains can be tempting — but they often weaken long-term position.

What makes it different
Scandinavia is designed around:
-> meaningful trade-offs rather than tactical tricks
-> persistent consequences instead of quick resets
-> strategic depth that emerges from simple rules
The result is a game where players are rarely eliminated early, but mistakes echo far into the endgame.

Status
Scandinavia is currently in active development.
Rules, visuals, and design notes will be published here over time.
If you’d like to follow its progress, updates will be shared occasionally on this site.

Mind Sports

Andres's mind sports achievements:

Unofficial World Championships:

Pentamind:

• Pentamind World Championship
• Pentamind movie trailer
• Pentamind full documentary

Pentamind World Champions

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