The word, which is a term for a parasitic wasp, garnered 176 points and clinched the World Scrabble Championship for British competitor Brett Smirtheram. The 37-year-old consultant from London credits that, plus a photographic memory, for securing his first-place victory at the World Scrabble Championship on Sunday. “Scrabble is an endurance sport and requires a lot of stamina.”[With the word ‘felty,’ for 36 points, Wellington Jighere becomes the first African world Scrabble champion]Braconid, to which he’ll now cop knowing the definition, scored him 176 points. At the Mind Sports International 2016 Championships held in Lille, France, Smitheram faced off against 1993 Scrabble champion Mark Nyman. “For living-room players, Scrabble is about language, a test of vocabularies,” wrote competitive Scrabble player Oliver Roeder at FiveThirtyEight.

Source: Washington Post September 06, 2016 11:03 UTC