From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Tyler Hinman born November 5 1984 is a crossword solver and constructor and a fivetime winner of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament ACPT He won the tournament for the first time as a 20yearold in 2005 and by 2009 had won five consecutive titles a feat unprecedented in the 32year history of the tournament Hinman was also one of the featured players in the awardwinning 2006 documentary film Wordplay Description above from the Wikipedia article Tyler Hinman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia