Shameless plug for fellow Kiwi - The amazing scrabble guy

I'm not sure what the memory category for this is, but the bloke memerized every 2-10 letter word in the french scrabble dictionary in a few months.

Doesn't even know what they mean.

Pretty cool

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Quote:

"......He's been called the LeBron of Scrabble, and for good reason. Nigel Richards is the world's best Scrabble player, and he proved it again on Monday by winning the World Champion for the Francophone Classic Scrabble of 2015, in Louvain-La Neuve, Belgium on Monday. In the final round of the championship, Richards was tied one-to-one in a best of three series against his French-speaking opponent, Schelick Ilagou Rekawe. Richards won the final match with a word played on two 'triple-word score' boxes, ending the game with 565 points to his opponent's 434. The catch is, Richards doesn't speak a lick of French. "He can say 'Bonjour' and count from one to ten, so he can give the score to his opponents" said Liz Fagerlund, a friend, Scrabble aficionado, and longtime supporter. "I believe it took him about nine weeks to memorize all the French words for the tournament.".....

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