November 6, 2006
Trivia Contest! Wordplay
Wordplay manages to both teach us about how crossword puzzles are concocted - by the fiendishly clever Will Shortz and Merle Reagle, in this case - while demonstrating how a crossword addict "trains" for a competition in puzzle-solving - rendered here in surprisingly intense fashion. Mix these quirky characters with more famous puzzle addicts like Jon Stewart, Bill Clinton, New York Yankee Mike Mussina and the Indigo Girls, and you have a very engaging documentary. If it at times feels like a lovefest for The New York Times (and, hey, why not?), "the film is made with a lot of style and visual ingenuity," says Roger Ebert, and is "near letter-perfect," adds The Baltimore Sun's Michael Sragow.
Now GreenCine's giving away copies of the new Wordplay DVD (which also includes a few challenging Times puzzles as an insert) to two clever (and lucky) people who solve our latest trivia contest, courtesy of IFC Films. Lucky winners will also receive Wordplay pens and the official companion book!
To be eligible, send an email with the correct answer to contest@greencine.com, including your name, email address and, if you're a GreenCine member, your username in the email, and "Wordplay" in the subject header. Winners will be selected at random from all correct entries. The deadline is Thursday, November 9, at 12PM PST. Winners will be notified by e-mail and announced in future editions of the GreenCine Dispatch newsletter.
The Question: New England city in which the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, featured in Wordplay, is held. (Hint: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.)
See also: Word Wars; Spellbound.
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