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Spain's Scrabble title claimed by Kiwi who doesn't speak the language
- gnabgib 2y agohttps://archive.is/blYOm https://archive.is/blYOm Nigel Richards is a bit of a legend for this[0], in 2015 and 2018 he won French World Scrabble Champion (despite not speaking French) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_player) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_playe...
- vunderba 2y agoIt really hammers home the point about Scrabble being more about "recognizable tokens" then words and their associated definitions. He's also won the US tournament numerous times - which might not sound that bad until you realize that the US has a far more restricted acceptable word list which means he has to keep the world's English word list (SOWPODS) and the United States English word lists (OSPD) completely compartmentalized in his head during play in the states.