You can see why Shortz calls the event the most exciting competition in tournament history! The competition is based on both speed and accuracy, and one wrong (or blank) square guarantees that someone else will be taking home the trophy. Over the course of one long, snowy weekend, almost five hundred competitors battle it out for the title Crossword Champ. Competitors travel from all over the world to attend, and vary in age from teenagers to octogenarians. Hosted and directed by Shortz, the tournament is the nation’s oldest and largest crossword competition. Shortz is considered the main reason why over 50 million Americans do crosswords every week.Īlong the way, “Wordplay” also introduces us to several world-class crossword solvers and follows them to Stamford, CT, as they compete at the 28th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT). Known to millions as National Public Radio’s “Puzzle Master,” Will Shortz has spent his entire lifetime studying, creating, and editing puzzles, and has built a huge following along the way.Īmong Shortz’s die-hard fans are President Bill Clinton, Senator Bob Dole, “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart, filmmaker Ken Burns, the Indigo Girls, and Yankee’s ace pitcher Mike Mussina. In addition to deconstructing this uniquely American institution, “Wordplay” takes us though the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, where almost five hundred competitors battled it out for the title Crossword Champ and showed their true colors along the way. Along the way, the film presents interviews with celebrity crossword puzzlers such as Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, Mike Mussina and the Indigo Girls, who reveal their process, insight and the allure of the game. Sundance Film Festival 2006 (Documentary Competition)–Offering an inside look at the socio-cultural world of crossword puzzles, “Wordplay” focuses on the man most associated with such puzzles, the colorful New York Times puzzle editor and NPR puzzle-master Will Shortz.ĭirector Patrick Creadon introduces us to this passionate hero, and to the inner workings of his brilliant and often hilarious contributors, including syndicated puzzle creator Merl Reagle.
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