Spanish Scrabble Winner Does Not Speak Spanish — VOA Learning English
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A New Zealand man recently won an international Spanish Scrabble competition although he does not speak Spanish.
Scrabble is a board game in which players form words from letters to gain points.
Nigel Richards is a professional Scrabble player. He holds five English-language world championships in the board game. But in November, he won the Spanish world Scrabble championship in Granada, Spain. In the competition, he lost one game out of 24.
Many people are wondering how Richards could win without speaking Spanish.
Liz Fagerlund is a New Zealand Scrabble official and a friend of Richards. She recently told the Associated Press that Richards started memorizing the Spanish language Scrabble word…
Tap any word for its translation at once; the word goes into your deck together with its sentence.