Nigel Richards wins the KSSA India Open International Scrabble Championship 2024

Event: KSSA India Open International Scrabble Championship 2024 (Division A)
Venue: Mu Sigma Aviator Building, 10F ITPL, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Date: January 25-28, 2024

Dictionary: CSW21

No. of Players: 40

No. of Rounds: 33

The much talked about game was the superhuman bingo done by Nigel Richards in Round 3 against Rajiv Antao. Holding ACENORT, Nigel unleashed an incredible bingo wherein Scrabble Engine, Quackle could only find. See the board below:

Other Scrabble Grandmasters could have played the normal bingo like CO(P)ARENT (d1) for 82 points or (S)ARCONET (15a) for 89 points, but there is something more that the GOAT of World Scrabble caught his eidetic memory! Press "Nigel's Move" to find out the answer.

In this game, Nigel tallied a total score of 748 believed to be his highest game score in a WESPA rated tourney, currently. This included the five consecutive bingos!

You can also watch the Scrabble Vlog of Will Anderson tackling the whole game:

In this tournament, Nigel Richards and Hubert Wee met ten times, wherein they drew one game, Nigel won 3 games and Hubert won 6 games. They were slugging it out at the top board as per the King-of-the-Hill format. Below were the final board positions of the games they played against each other.

Nigel Richards and Hubert Wee in their 10 games at KSSA 2024

At the start of last round, Nigel Richards was already Gibsonized. So, Hubert Wee and Akshay Bhandarkar contested for the second spot whom the former prevailed with a final score of 565-390.

Marlon Prudencio shared this photo with the GOAT

Another milestone for Nigel Richards displaying his unmatched vocabulary among top flight Scrabble players!

Let's see it once again!

Rajiv Antao-301 vs Nigel Richards-748 at KSSA 2024