Scrabble Champion Named - somersault

Scrabble Champion Named

Because we at Somersault (@smrsault) love words, we thought you’d like to know Nigel Richards, 45, a New Zealand security analyst who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, won the 2012 National SCRABBLE Championship in Orlando, FL, that concluded today, according to the North American SCRABBLE Players Association (@NASPA) tournament website. This is his 3rd consecutive title and 4th overall, both unprecedented achievements. He is also the reigning World Champion.

Both Richards and the runner-up, 1994 champion David Gibson of Spartanburg, SC, won 22 games (out of 31), but Richards had accumulated a better spread (+1579 vs. +1563, a difference of only 16 points) after winning the final game against Gibson by 177 points (475 to 298).

During the tournament, one contestant was disqualified for cheating.

Some of the most creative words played in the tournament were: ZADDICK (a virtuous person by Jewish religious standards), ERYTHEMA (a redness of the skin), ORPHIC (mystical), and WAWL (to cry like a cat).

Also see The New Yorker's poem, Reflections on a Winning Scrabble Board.

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