It's not English lit majors who excel at the popular crossword board game Scrabble, it's puzzle-oriented folks with mathematically inclined minds. That's one of the more intriguing revelations of ...

The recent boom in televised non-athletic games—spelling bees, poker, and the like—is due in large part to the competitors, as well as distinctly cracked personalities. The documentary Word Wars ...

One of the best films of last year was "Spellbound," a documentary that followed eight kids as they traveled the spelling bee circuit, ultimately ending up at the national championships in Washington, ...

Never at a loss for words, Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo’s witty and intelligent documentary, “Word Wars: Tiles and Tribulations on the Scrabble Circuit,” follows four unconventional players as ...

Before the recent National Scrabble Championship, Eric Chaikin was trying to cram for it. But there just wasn’t enough time. He was too busy promoting the documentary he co-directed “Word Wars,” which ...

If last year’s Word Wars doc inspired a passion for showing off your overdeveloped vocabulary, Thursday-night meetings of National Scrabble Association Club No. 56 are for y-o-u. Presided over by ...

A conventional study of unconventional competitors, "Word Wars" is fitfully fascinating as it follows four not-always-friendly rivals at the 2002 National Scrabble Tournament. Cable-bound docu might ...