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Being great at Scrabble typically requires an extensive vocabulary.
Just take a look at what a New Zealand man named Nigel Richards did.
He recently won the Spanish World Scrabble Championships despite not speaking a word of Spanish.
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In 2015 and 2018, he defeated native French speakers to win the French-language Scrabble world championship.
All these accolades have led to him being regarded as the greatest tournament-Scrabble player of all time.
But how does one win a world Scrabble tournament without speaking a word of the language at play?
Nigel Richards in 2018. (Photo: Kingoflettuce viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
For both championships, 57-year-old Richards studied and memorized the dictionary over nine weeks.
We are talking about a New Zealander who has won multiple championships in Englishat least five of them.
For Antonio Alvarez, Spanish World Scrabble Championship ambassador, Scrabble is like medicine for memory problems.
Nigel Richards in 2018.
