Word Wars

Word Wars: Tiles and Tribulations on the Scrabble Circuit is a 2004 American documentary film directed by Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo about competitive Scrabble.^[1] The film was an official selection at the 2004 Sundance film festival,^[2] had a 25-city theatrical run, was included as part of the Discovery Times Channel's "Screening Room" series, and was nominated for numerous awards including a 2004 Documentary Emmy for "Best Artistic or Cultural Programming" and an International Documentary Association (IDA) Award. The film is distributed by 7th Art Releasing.

The film follows four players in the nine months leading up to the 2002 National Scrabble Championship, which was held in San Diego, California: Joe Edley, Matt Graham, Marlon Hill, and Joel Sherman. These players, as does Chaikin, also appear in Stefan Fatsis's book Word Freak. Fatsis and Chaikin are both tournament Scrabble players themselves.^[3]

Soundtrack

• E Wolf & the Moneylenders - "Paralyzed" (Written by Chalkin & Haber)
• Your Mom - "The One" (Written by Your Mom)
• The Minutemen - "Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want the Truth)" (Written by Mike Watt)
• The Minutemen - "The Glory of Man" (Written by Mike Watt)
• Andrew Chaikin & Austin Willacy - "Across the Universe" (Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney)
• Joel Sherman - "Across the Universe" (Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney)

References

External links

• Word Wars at IMDb

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Scrabble

• English
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• Players

Game elements

• Anamonic
• Bingo
• Blanagram
• Challenge
• Letter distributions
• Tile tracking
• Word lists
  • CSW
  • NWL
  • ODS
  • OSPD
  • OSPS

Organisations

Associations	Association of British Scrabble Players NASPA Games World English-Language Scrabble Players' Association Belgian Scrabble Federation
Companies	Hasbro Coleco Milton Bradley Selchow and Righter Mattel J. W. Spear & Sons Spin Master

People

• Alfred Mosher Butts
• Allan Simmons
• Gyles Brandreth
• Harriet T. Righter

Competitions

• North America
  • Canadian Championship
  • School Championship
  • Scrabble Players Championship
• United Kingdom
  • National Championship
  • UK Open
• World Championships
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Youth
• Brand's Crossword Game King's Cup
• Singapore Open

Media & books

• A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense
• Family Game Night
• Scrabble (game show)
• Scrabble Showdown
• The Big Snit
• TV Scrabble
• Word Freak
• Word Wars

Predecessors

• Anagrams
• Lexiko

Variants &
spin-offs

Official games	RSVP Super Scrabble Scrabble ME Scrabble Slam! Trickster Upwords
Video games	Scrabble 2007 Edition The Computer Edition of Scrabble Hasbro Family Game Night Internet Scrabble Club Scrabble (video game) Scrabble Complete
Similar games	Alfapet Bananagrams Boggle Clabbers Duplicate Scrabble Lexulous Words with Friends Wordscraper

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