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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...