- Title: UK: DAVID BOYS WINS WORLD SCRABBLE CHAMPIONSHIP.
- Date: 5th November 1995
- Summary: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (NOVEMBER 5, 1995) 1. PARK LANE HOTEL 2. CANADIAN DAVID BOYS AND JOEL SHERMAN OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE BOARD CONTESTING WORLD SCRABBLE CHAMPIONSHIPS 3. BOYS PLAYS A WORD 4. ADJUDICATORS CHECK WORDS 5. BOYS AND SHERMAN AT THE BOARD 6. HALL ELSEWHERE IN HOTEL, WITH SPECTATORS WATCHING GIANT SCRABBLE BOARD 7. COMMENTATOR GYLES BRANDRETH, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT 8. ASSISTANTS PLACE LETTERS ON BOARD 9. SPECTATORS 10.ROCK STAR AND SCRABBLE FAN ROBERT PALMER SAYING THAT FOR HIM SCRABBLE IS A LEISURE PURSUIT AND UNTIL HE SAW THE LEVEL OF PLAY IN THE CHAMPIONSHIPS HE COULD NOT BELIEVE ANY OF THE WORDS USED BY THE COMPETITORS AND WOULD HAVE CHALLENGED EVERYTHING (ENGLISH) 11. BOYS WINS WORLD SCRABBLE CHAMPIONSHIP 12. BOYS HUGS HIS GIRLFRIEND, DINA BENNETT 13. BOYS SAYS IT WAS FUN, HE IS REALLY HAPPY (ENGLISH) 14. BENNETT SAYS LET'S DO IT AGAIN TOMORROW (ENGLISH) 15. PALMER PRESENTS BOYS WITH PRIZE 16. BOYS SAYING THAT WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY AROSE I REALISED THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW AS MANY BRITISH WORDS AS I DID. IN FACT HE KNEW HARDLY ANY (ENGLISH) 17. WINNERS ON STAGE Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
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- Country: United Kingdom
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- Story Text: Canadian David Boys won the World Scrabble Championship in London on Sunday (November 5), beating Joel Sherman of the United States after a tense, five-game final.
Boys, 31, an amateur stand-up comedian from Montreal with a degree in psychology, triumphed over 64 players from 31 countries in the four-day competition to win a prize of 11,000 U.S. dollars, a crystal trophy and a gold-plated Scrabble set.
Jeff Grant of New Zealand was third and Bob Lipton of the United States was fourth.
Scrabble was invented in New York in the early 1930s by Alfred Butts, an out-of-work archictect. It is now the world's best-selling word game, with 100 million sold in 31 different languages in 120 countries.
Rock star and Scrabble enthusiast Robert Palmer, who presented the prizes, said many of the words used by the finalists were completely unknown to him.
They included: "arroyer", a Swiss chief magistrate; "unau", a twin-toed sloth; and "lambdoid", meaning shaped like the Greek letter Lambda.
Top Scrabble players prepare for their games by memorising long lists of words in official Scrabble dictionaries. In the World Championships they could choose from up to 200,000 possible words from British and U.S. dictionaries.
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