This could leave you at a loss for words. A New Zealand man has won the Scrabble world championship for Spanish words — despite not speaking the language. Nigel Richards — who now holds an impressive ...

GRANADA, Spain (WKRC) - A Scrabble champion left an entire tournament confused after he won the Spanish World Scrabble Championships despite not speaking any Spanish. Nigel Richards is a household ...

Nigel Richards is a Scrabble phenomenon! The New Zealand native claimed the recent Spanish World Scrabble Championships, despite not speaking the language. Richards, 57, battled more than 150 ...

Sure, you can buy Icelandic Scrabble, Croatian Scrabble, even Slovenian Scrabble – if you look hard enough. After all, those languages have entire nations of speakers. But who’d want Scrabble for a ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 6: A Meditation on Scrabble Mike Vuolo Mike Vuolo is a radio and podcast producer and the host of Lexicon Valley. Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play ...

Hundreds of words that were previously off-limits to Scrabble players are now fair game. The newest version of Merriam-Webster’s The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary boasts 300 new words, ...

Board game was invented 75 years ago by American architect Alfred Butts He scored letters depending on their level of use in the New York Times Some claim values are outdated because of changes to the ...

Benjamín Olaizola, who came second to New Zealander Nigel Richards, called his opponent a “gifted guy” with “very particular abilities" Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty Nigel Richards is a Scrabble ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he ...