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 now lives in Malaysia, won the Spanish world Scrabble championships in Granada, Spain, in November, losing only one game out of 24.
Tournament favorite and five-time English-language scrabble world champion Nigel Richards looks across the board before the start of his final round, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, at the National Scrabble Championships in Buffalo, N.Y. game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title — despite the language barrier that stopped him from chatting with his opponents.
In second place was defending champion Benjamín Olaizola of Argentina, who won 18 of his games -– and does speak Spanish. But what challenge remains for a player who has dominated the game in his native tongue? Richards in 2008 was the first player ever to hold the world, U.S. and British titles simultaneously -– despite having to “forget” 40,000 English words that do not appear in the American Scrabble word list to triumph in the U.S.
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