TIL of Nigel Richards, a tournament-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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_player)
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