French Scrabble Champ Can't Speak French

Meet Nigel Richards. Nigel has already won five U.S. Scrabble championships, three World Championships, and is one of the greatest competitive Scrabble players of all time, but this week he did something truly amazing. He won the French language Scrabble Championships, and he doesn't even speak French! How do you win at Scrabble in a foreign language? If you're Nigel, you memorize the French Scrabble Dictionary, and you only do it in only nine weeks! Now that is a triple word score!