The player from New Zealand, Nigel Richards, speaks no Spanish and started memorizing the language's Scrabble word list a year ago. He beat defending champion Benjamín Olaizola of Argentina - who does ...
don't quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble," he said. "They want a game where you can simply enjoy language, words, being together and having fun creating words." In the new game ...
Becoming a Scrabble expert requires memorizing thousands of obscure words from the far reaches of the English dictionary, like "adz" (a cutting tool), "pahoehoe" (a type of lava), and "crwth" (a ...
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 ...