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Man wins Spanish Scrabble World Championship — and he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish

Carla Sinclair
Dec 07, 2024
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A 57-year-old word nerd from New Zealand just won the 2024 Spanish-Language Scrabble World Championship — and he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish.

And yes, this is the same Nigel Richards we wrote about in 2015 who won the French Scrabble World Championship without knowing how to speak French. (He's since won that title t…

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