Player Profiles

Mystery man

Nigel Richards is profiled by New Zealand's Sunday Star-Times newspaper as the enigmatic "greatest player ever". Yet the journalist never actually spoke to the man himself. Read the full story.

The Nigel Richards outtake from Stefan Fatsis's celebrated best-selling book 'Word Freaks: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble' (with permission of the author). Read the full chapter.