Man who doesn't speak Spanish wins Spanish Scrabble Championships

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A New Zealander Studied for a Year to Win the Spanish World Scrabble Title. He Doesn’t Speak Spanish

A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title. Nigel Richards, a professional player who holds five English-language world titles, won the Spanish world Scrabble championships in Granada, Spain, in November, losing one game out of 24. Richards started memorizing the language’s Scrabble word list a year ago, his friend Liz Fagerlund…

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A great Scrabble star wins the Spanish world title, but he can't even speak his tongue. 13,000 kilometers to mate, a proof that distances don't matter in love, even in the animal world.

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Spanish Scrabble winner doesn’t speak Spanish

New Zealander, Nigel Richards, who speaks no Spanish, has won the Spanish-language world title in Scrabble. Richards, a professional player who holds five English-language world titles, started memorising the language’s Scrabble word list a year ago and beat defending champion Benjamín Olaizola of Argentina, whose mother tongue is Spanish. His victory was notable even by his standards… Source

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Man who doesn't speak Spanish wins Spanish Scrabble Championships

A renowned speller known as the "Tiger Woods of Scrabble" took the top spot at the Spanish World Scrabble Championships in Spain, despite not speaking Spanish.

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New Zealander wins Spanish Scrabble contest. He doesn’t speak Spanish

A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn't speak, has won the board game's Spanish-language world title.

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Dude Who Can’t Speak Spanish Wins Spanish Scrabble World Championship

I feel like I could do a pretty decent job in a Scrabble tournament. I don't play it much because I've got too much cool guy stuff to do, but I think I could still hold my own, what with the fact that my job has quite a bit to do with words, and words are kind of a big part of Scrabble.But if I tried to play Scrabble in another language that I don't speak — which would be any language that isn't English — I'd be screwed.Well, that wasn't the cas…