Nigel Richards (a Kiwi) memorized 100,000s of French words in the French scrabble dictionary in 9 weeks. He won the French Scrabble Championship in 2015 (etc) without speaking any French. (www.npr.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Nigel Richards (Scrabble player)

In 2015, despite not speaking French, Richards won the French World Scrabble Championships, after reportedly spending nine weeks studying the French dictionary. He won it again in 2018, and multiple duplicate titles from 2016.

Some tweets

He is understood to have mastered the French scrabble dictionary or roughly 400,000 words in nine weeks' time. He also holds a record peak rating (akin to Elo ratings in Chess) of 2298. Richards' peers will tell you that he's unrivaled in word knowledge and quick calculation of mathematical probabilities on the board.

Nigel Richards is a New Zealand–Malaysian Scrabble player who is widely regarded as the greatest tournament-Scrabble player of all time. Born and raised in New Zealand, Richards became World Champion in 2007, and repeated the feat in 2011, 2013, 2018, and 2019.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago

The article massively understates how skilled Nigel is. He doesn't just know the words, he consistently plays the move that scores the highest-possible points while denying counterplay from his opponent. He's leagues better than any other Scrabble player and it isn't a contest... he's literally better at Scrabble than computers are.

this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023

28 points (100.0% liked)

Games

21190 readers

330 users here now

Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.

Rules

No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia. Don't care if it's ironic don't post comments or content like that here.
Mark spoilers
No bad mouthing sonic games here :no-copyright:
No gamers allowed :soviet-huff:
No squabbling or petty arguments here. Remember to disengage and respect others choice to do so when an argument gets too much
Anti-Edelgard von Hresvelg trolling will result in an immediate ban from c/games and submitted to the site administrators for review. :silly-liberator:

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

jack@hexbear.net

RiotDoll@hexbear.net