<p>A New Zealander has won the Spanish World Scrabble champion title.</p><p>But there's one thing.</p><p>he doesn't speak Spanish, Nigel, Richards a <span style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;" data-ke-size="size16">professional player</span> who holds 5 English-language world titles, started to memorize the language's Scrabble word list a year ago.</p><p>He lost only one out of 24 games as opposed to the runner-up, who won 18 of his games and does speak Spanish.</p><p>Richards has done this before in 2015, he became the French Scrabble World Champion despite not speaking French after studying word lists for nine weeks.</p><p>He took the French champion title again  in 2018</p><p>I'm Karen Chamms.</p><p> </p>
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