Nigel Richards is a New Zealand Scrabble player widely regarded as the greatest competitor in the game's history, having won the World Scrabble Championship five times and, remarkably, the French-language World Scrabble Championship twice despite not speaking French, after memorising the French dictionary for the competition.
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Career HighlightWon the World Scrabble Championship in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2018 and 2019, and the French-language World Scrabble Championship in 2015 and 2018, the latter two despite not speaking French. 1 Classification
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Five-time English-language champion (2007, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2019).
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Nigel Richards is a New Zealand Scrabble player widely regarded as the greatest competitor in the game's history, having won the World Scrabble Championship five times and, remarkably, the French-language World Scrabble Championship twice despite not speaking French, after memorising the French dictionary for the competition.
- Plays: Scrabble
- Competed In: World Scrabble Championship
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Playing history: 2015Quote, Playing history: 2015
On 20 July, Richards won the nonduplicate portion of the 2015 French World Scrabble Championship in Belgium after two months of studying the French lexicon. He does not speak French.
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