Joe Edley
The only three-time National Champion, going for his fourth. Revered by some, despised by others, he harnesses extreme concentration in order to "manifest the reality of winning".
He achieves his results through a strict Tai Chi regimen and while National Champion in the early ‘80s actually lived under a bush in Golden Gate Park.

Matt Graham
An intense New York-based stand-up comic who inhabits a studio apartment filled with dictionaries, books about words and word lists. A huge assortment of “smart drugs” fuels his competitive drive and obsession with anagrams. Much of his income comes from pickup Scrabble games or anagramming for money.

Marlon Hill
A self-described ‘Pre-Mecca Malcolm playing SCRABBLE’, Marlon is a vocal Pan-Africanist from Baltimore. He makes a point to speak and write in full Ebonics, but has an almost supernatural ability to unscramble words of any length in the standard English dictionary. His battle with his own temper and his “best-of-enemies” relationship with Matt are central elements of the film.