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 tournament in Granada, Spain last month, Reuters reported, showcasing once again his remarkable abilities to outperform even native speakers in their own languages. “This is an incredible humiliation,” Benjamín Olaizola, who came second to Richards, told Spanish radio network La Cadena SER, calling his opponent a “gifted man” with “very specific capabilities.
” His friend and long-time supporter Liz Fagerlund told CNN at the time that Richards spent nine weeks memorizing the French Scrabble dictionary – which reportedly contains nearly 400,000 words. “It’s most likely that he’s wired differently; he doesn’t even study the pages word by word,” Fagerlund told CNN. “He can look at a page full of words and absorb them all.” Fagerlund met Richards when he joined the Christchurch Scrabble club in 1996 in New Zealand.
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