I have this friend who was addicted to Scrabble.
Eventually they led her away in handcuffs. She’s clean now, … so far as I know.
“Scrabylon” is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed documentary on the cutthroat world of tournament Scrabble®.
Featuring the most fierce anagrammers, rack balancers, and bingo experts in competitive Scrabble®, “Scrabylon” delves deep into this sometimes wacky, sometimes odd, always compelling subculture. Shot primarily during the World Scrabble® Championships in Las Vegas, “Scrabylon” features players from around the globe and gives an up-close look at why people get so obsessed with that seemingly benign game played at countless kitchen tables.
“Scrabylon” spotlights “GI (gastrointestinal) Joel” Sherman, the world’s only professional Scrabble® player – so named for his various stomach ailments …
Click PLAY or watch a short clip from the film on YouTube.
It’s charmingly unedited. These addicts speak for themselves.
… kind of reminds me of my own unique subculture: gymnastics.
Rick McCharles 
I remember her. She used to pace the floor on winter afternoons, hair matted, flannel pyjama shirt buttoned crookedly, the toe of one sock dragging behind her, mumbling lists of seven-letter words, trying to keep them in alphabetical order.
Then one night someone showed her how to play chess, and she was lost forever…