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 — despite the language ...

A New Zealand man hailed as a Scrabble phenom dominated the Spanish World Scrabble Championships – despite reportedly not speaking the language. Nigel Richards claimed victory at this year’s ...

N igel Richards is the reigning world champion of Scrabble in Spanish. Just don’t ask him to order a coffee in Madrid. The 57-year-old New Zealander doesn’t speak a lick of Spanish.

It’s about patterns, probabilities, and an almost superhuman memory. His victory in Spain, where he lost only one game out of 24, has left the Scrabble world—and native Spanish speakers—stunned.

Nigel Richards, a professional Scrabble player from New Zealand, has won the Spanish-language Scrabble world championship—despite not speaking the language.. Competing in Granada, Spain, in ...

Between the English, French and Spanish Scrabble dictionaries, Richards has memorized how to spell about 1 million words, Tang said. “He’s basically better than a computer,” Tang said.

This year’s Spanish Scrabble champion? A man who can’t speak Spanish. It wasn’t even the first time Nigel Richards of New Zealand won a Scrabble competition in a language he didn’t speak.

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GRANADA, Spain (WKRC) - A Scrabble champion left an entire tournament confused after he won the Spanish World Scrabble Championships despite not speaking any Spanish. Nigel Richards is a household ...

Nigel Richards is the reigning world champion of Scrabble in Spanish. Just don’t ask him to order a coffee in Madrid. The 57-year-old New Zealander doesn’t speak a lick of Spanish. During the ...