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New Zealander who doesn’t speak Spanish wins Spanish world Scrabble title
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — 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…
Nigel Richards, the best Scrabble player in history, doesn't understand a word of Spanish, but has won the World Championship in our language in 2024.
Scrabble: World's Greatest Wins in Languages he Cannot Speak
Nigel Richards, a 57-year-old New Zealand scrabble phenomenon, won the 2024 Spanish-Language Scrabble World Championship despite not speaking the language at all. Richards became World Champion in 2007, and repeated the feat in 2011, 2013, 2018, and 2019. He is generally regarded as the greatest of all time, but not just in his native tongue. Back in 2015, he won the French-Language Scrabble Championship despite being completely unable to hav…
It's a nice win from here.
Nigel Richards is simply an exceptional man. He is the world champion of Scrabble, the famous game that consists of arming words. And it is exceptional because he dominates the game in several languages, including Spanish, language he doesn’t even speak! Nigel Richards, world champion of Scrabble in Spanish despite not speaking Spanish It happens that in November of this year the Scrabble world championship was held in Spanish, event held in Gra…
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