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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1120/
- Published: 2024-12-16T17:30:11.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-16T17:30:10.000Z
- Description: Despite hardly speaking the language, the New Zealander, who has won dozens of Scrabble tournaments in English, was competing in the Spanish-language Scrabble world championship. He won the title.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Nigel Richards could barely exchange pleasantries in Spanish when he arrived at a [Scrabble tournament in Spain last month,](https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360518589/kiwi-wins-spanish-scrabble-championship-without-speaking-word-language?ref=goodoil.news) his competitors recalled.  
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> Despite hardly speaking the language, the New Zealander, [who has won dozens of Scrabble tournaments in English](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108203167/kiwi-nigel-richards-wins-world-scrabble-championship-title-for-fourth-time?ref=goodoil.news), was competing in the Spanish-language Scrabble world championship. Some of his competitors, who were fluent, doubted his chances, said Horacio Moavro, treasurer of the International Federation of Scrabble in Spanish.  
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> “He shut our mouths completely,” Moavro told The Washington Post.  
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