The Myth: Wordplay

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Sunday, March 25

Wordplay

In addition to being the name of a catchy Jason Mraz song, Wordplay is a documentary about New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and the people who love his puzzles.

Much of the film covers the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and it's contestants, so although I watched the DVD a couple months ago I decided to wait and blog about it this weekend...

This year's tournament ended today, with 22 year old Tyler Hinman winning the main event for the third straight year. I think his secret is the Trogdor t-shirt he wears during the final day of competition.

Watching the film made me want to try and enjoy crossword puzzles, but I always end up feeling stupid and giving up.

Labels: games, movies, nytimes

posted by Brad at 3/25/2007 12:39:00 PM | permalink | 2 comments

2 Comments:

You pretty much summed up my response to the documentary. I tried giving crosswords another shot after watching the movie as well.

I thought it was a low blow when one of the people intereviewed in the movie mentioned that computer programmers are typically good at crosswords, since they are used to thinking in logical patterns. -- I guess I really suck.

By gomattolson, at 3/25/2007 5:49 PM