This year’s Spanish Scrabble champion? A man who can’t speak Spanish.
Nigel Richards, arguably the best Scrabble player ever, previously won French tournaments without speaking the language.
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
He won the Spanish Scrabble championships, yet he doesn’t speak Spanish
A New Zealand man hailed as a Scrabble phenom dominated the Spanish World Scrabble Championships – despite reportedly not speaking the language.
Scrabble Genius Wins Spanish Scrabble Title—Without Speaking Spanish
Nigel Richards from New Zealand has won Scrabble titles around the world, including in France, despite not speaking the language.
Man Wins Spanish-Language Scrabble Championship – Without Speaking Spanish
Nigel Richards, a 57-year-old Scrabble prodigy from New Zealand, has done it again — this time winning the 2024 Spanish-Language Scrabble World Championship, despite not knowing the language. Richards,
Man wins Spanish and French scrabble championships despite not speaking the languages
Among his wins was his first famous win, the 2015 French-language title, where he claimed that he only knew 'Bonjour' in the language, and not much else. All he did, according to friend and supported Liz Fagerlund, is memorise the French Scrabble dictionary, albeit for just nine weeks.
New Zealander who doesn’t speak Spanish wins the Spanish-language world Scrabble title
Nigel Richards, a professional player who holds five English-language world titles, won the championships in Granada in November, losing only one game out of 24
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Spain’s new Scrabble champion doesn’t speak Spanish - Nigel Richards couldn’t talk to his opponents in their language
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