Meet this 48-year-old genius from New Zealand who has been called "the Tiger Woods of Scrabble". Nigel Richards has just won the francophone world Scrabble championships after reportedly memorising the entire French Scrabble dictionary in just nine weeks.
His command of the language of Molière, as the French like to call it, stretches to “bonjour” and being able to count.
“He doesn’t speak French at all – he just learned the words,” his close friend Liz Fagerlund told the New Zealand Herald. “He won’t know what they mean, wouldn’t be able to carry out a conversation in French, I wouldn’t think.”
