New Zealander Nigel Richards took home the title in another Scrabble championship this year, which shouldn't be too surprising since he won the World Scrabble Championship in English in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2018, and 2019.
The big difference this year is that the championship he won was the Spanish version in Granada, Spain, and Richards doesn't speak Spanish.
'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.'
What are those specific capabilities?
Let me put it this way, Richards also won the French Scrabble Championship in 2015.
At the time, his friend Liz Fagerlund said that Richards spent nine weeks memorizing the French Scrabble Dictionary - roughly 400,000 words.
It's most likely that he's wired differently; he doesn't even study the pages word by word. He can look at a page full of words and absorb them all.
And he studied his way to victory in the Spanish contest this year as well.
Richards had to work his way through 145 Spanish Scrabble opponents across the world to get to Granada, and he apparently did it with ease.
There's no word about what language he'll conquer next, but if a guy who looks like this comes up to you and asks to play Scrabble, don't play for money.
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