The World Scrabble Champion is A Monster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Nigel Richards is so good at Scrabble that he is becoming the de facto name of all competitive play. Here's a list of his accomplishments from least to most unbelievable.
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He learned the French dictionary not to speak it, but to humiliate the French at their own game. What a man
Quite honestly the lonely valid reason to do so.
honestly that is quite sad, imagine being the other players where the other players speak the french language all the life to lose to someone who only saw the french dictionary for only 9 weeks
@@animeguy6752 It's okay, it's the French. They barely count as people.
We welcome Nigel with open arms as french haters.
nOT EXACTLY. hE LEARNED A LITST OF fRENCH WORDDS.
Nigel is undoubtedly a stand user.
Oh, of course
Nigel could eazy clap dio
he is a bored demigod i love him
Is that a Jojo reference
@@tryntip8497 no we're talking about granite bar stands
Beats the French at Scrabble.
Refuses to speak French.
Based
Sigma mindset
If you can beat ‘em, don’t join em.
Hehe Le French lost again
Doesn't elaborate
I thought it was crazy how this man relentlessly insults his entire fanbase nearly constantly, yet we keep watching. Then I remembered we all enjoy it.
how could you not "enjoy" it 🥵🥵
we all have a shame kink
Thats just cause we are all thinking “Ha! Those other guys watching are so dumb! I’m glad he doesn’t mean me. I’m his real fan that he would like cause I’m smart!”
It's basically my last girlfriend, except Hugbees lets us finish.
Hes like the Chaotic Good idubbbz lmfao
It is rumored that he once ate all of the pieces on the board, causing the judges to scratch their heads in bewilderment as he sneakily took the trophy right out from under their noses
The pro strats
The kind of ingenuity that separates legends from men
True story
Hes the reason why you have to square out the board at the end of every game. And he ate the q tile bc the gamr was soo close
I remember at the tourney after that, he needed a Q for "sesquipedalian". He gave a cheeky little grin, then shat right on the board. And right there in the middle of the turd was one "Q", the cheeky bastard was holding it ever since! Truly an unrivaled genius
With Nigel it was either going to be Scrabble, or Uni-bombing. I am glad he picked Scrabble.
Maybe they just haven’t caught him yet
Maybe he's such a good Unabomber that he hasn't been able to be linked to any of them yet
I'm not. Did you actually read Uncle Ted's manifesto?
Maybe he's a serial killer who's actively trying to tell the authorities where he hid the bodies
I know this is a joke but Nigel is a nice dude. Let weird people be weird.
I love that Nigel is the closest real life equivalent to one punch man, except he is just inhumanly good at scrabble
He is like if Komugi from HxH played scrabble instead
He is the akagi of scrabble
I'm disappointed the WORLD Scrabble championship doesn't let you use words in any language you want. Imagine a board filled with French, Spanish, and English. That's what should happen
That would be SOOOO cool!!
german too! i discovered when i was an exchange student that i have a natural skill in german scrabble despite never playing it before
Everyone gangsta until some guy starts pulling out Chinese characters
I'm pretty sure the letter point values are based on their frequency in English words. They'd probably have to reassign those values if all languages were allowed.
And Nigel would come in and rock thier freaking world as he proceeds to use every language while steadfastly not speaking them! What a legend.
With how unbelievably wild his life is, I can't tell if the ending is a joke, or factual.
I'm not going to lie, kind of had me for a second 😂👌🏽
It has to be a joke. Cause in reality; that would be cheating.
@@J3rs3y_G1rl While that would be a cheat, I feel like in some smaller tourneys they’d let it slide because it would be funny, like if he entered one with no to very little monetary reward at the end
Well what is it? Is it a joke??? I'm losing my effin mindddd
The ending is fake but it’s funny af. Also there can only be 2 blank tiles in the bag no matter what
"I am Nigel Richards go fuck yourself" is probably the most godly power move to have ever happened and nothing will ever top it
Is that real?
@@exotic1405 I figured it was a joke
N I G E L
N I G H T M A R E
(Or at least that's how I see it.)
@@exotic1405 a paraphrasing of the actual play, most likely
no that literally just didn’t happen
Nigel would’ve cracked the enigma like a morning crossword
Fun fact: Elo rating isn't an acronym, it's just named after its creator Arpad Elo.
Which was short for Arpad Electric Light Orchestra
Which actually stand for Air Rotating Placenta Activation Device for the Electric Light Orchestra
Which actually stands for Amazing Indoor Random Rotating Placenta Activation Device for the Electric Light Orchestra
I hate this fact. Reality is lame asf some times
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 wtf, I always thought it was some cool acronym.
Nigel is literally the perfect counter to billy mitchell.
Like brothers separated at birth, ones a hero, and ones a villain
Nigel is good, Billy sucks
Literally the d'arby brothers from jojo
@@namesurname8474 fr!
Ones ungodly talented at what he does and doesn't care and doesn't use it for publicity
The other is kinda ok at best at what he does so he cheated and used that infamy for immense publicity and cares so dearly about his reputation he will falsely accuse people of literally anything for calling him out.
Let me get something straight-
This man went to France, and played French scrabble, which is almost TWICE as hard as scrabble already is.
And-despite not knowing French- he dominated twice?
AND HE DOESNT EVEN CARE FOR SCRABBLE?!
My jaw dropped lmao
Him to the French: sucks to suck
he spelled out PERNOCTATED. The successor play to CHLORODYNE.
Nigel is the “You think this is my final form!?” guy but actually cool. His power is so unfathomable that he has to hide his power and play scrabble because no one can match him in combat. He is the reason why the Greek gods abandoned this world. With out a doubt, Nigel is the ultimate life form in the Omni verse, and we are lucky that he can protect us from any cringe that may strike the Earth
Ah yes another prophecy
the fact nigel is a casual is absolutely breathtaking
I literally just walked out the parlor from a haircut
@Slurpin some bepsi me leaving the building and looking at my phone triggered a quest to watch a new huggbees video? Sounds good
That's epic bro
That’s awesome dude
It pleases me to see this comment being so out of context, so random, but is also so appreciated by this community of online strangers
@@crocock3483 Gotta appreciate the homies sometimes yfm
okay but have you ever thought about eating the scrabble tiles before they place them down so you win instantly
EDIT: looking at this again, you could do this better by bringing a hammer of sorts so the opponent couldnt just perform the heimlich and get the tiles back
Bot above me
Also I tried that and apparently it’s “rude” or something
@@Guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i couldnt tell if my scrabble oppent was aggressively eating the scrabble tiles and i wouldnt know if i was confused angry or down right impressed by he his ability to swallow every single scrabble tiles
Have they patched that bug yet?
you can actually counter that play by throwing up non digested alphabet soup on the table
@@Sebastian-gb3hs or extract all of the letters from the opponent by giving them an enema
I am continuously impressed at how this man can take any concept and make it incredibly interesting.
Spelling "chlorodine" instead of "children" is the most gigachad energy I've seen in a very long time.
who would win?
a version of Scrabble that has more than twice as many words to play as English Scrabble
or
this man, who can't even speak French.
chlorodyne
@@SuperN57 pernoctated
@@probium2832 interviewer
Nigels dedication to not learning french is amazing.
Nigel’s memory is incredible! He once stated: "it’s like i can feel the words coming inside of me"!
Wow, I had no idea he loves the words THAT much. ☺️
You can tell how good he is by how little joy is in his face in that picture. Crop out the trophy and you've basically got a mugshot.
My favorite nigel story is he was in 2nd place in going into the last game of the North American scrabble championship against David Gibson (another scrabble GOAT, arguably the best player in north america at the time). If he won the game they'd be tied in record, with the tie breaker being spread (highest cumulative score differential). However, because Nigel was already behind in spread, not only did he need to win the game, but he needed to win by at least 170 points.
Keep in mind David Gibson is not only one of the greatest to ever play, but also notorious for his defensive style and was trying his best to lock down the board and keep Nigel from scoring, since a low scoring game would ensure he wins the championship even if he loses the game.
Nigel won by 177.
I love when he is going through "real" moves Nigel made, he throws in OXO which is a valid and commonly played scrabble move 🤣
i love how Huggbees will make a fun and interesting video that's very silly and entertaining, but before he'll end the video he will give an introspective outlook on the contents of the video. my man can really make a video about the goofiest thing and still make it thought-provoking by the end. love it.
"introspective outlook" is my new favorite oxymoron.
@@TheJacklikesvideos lol yeah maybe introspective wasn't the word I was looking for, i think i moreso meant retrospective
The most surprising thing in the whole video is that you can rotate letters and have it count
Wait, that stuff at the end wasn't a joke?
is there like a website or something that says this, i looked for 5 minutes and came out empty handed
that part is a joke, along with several other portions. this is a huggbees video lmao
@@aquafinabottle tbh, after all this time of watching him, i should have immediately known
0:04
You: Do you have a talent?
Me: No :(, damn bro, 4 seconds in and I already feel like a piece of shit.
Nothing drugs can't solve. Remember kids, your problems can always be drowned underneath cocaine.
It's okay, I don't have any talents either, and whenever I feel bad about it I take my anger out on my toddler baby. Hope this helps!
@@krispinwah2784hey you have a talent at beating infants
Good
The Huggbees fan base is fucking wild
My counter to the chess player having a "higher % win rate" is that those were tied games tho. No one actually won.
But that's the expected outcome in a properly played game. In Scrabble, an optimal game likely has a decisive result
did you watch the video
also chess is a completely objectively different game, one is extremely complex and intense with quadrillions of outcomes and the others chess
Chess guy has both a lower percent of losses, and a lower percent of wins. Draws are pretty rare in Scrabble cuz it's point based. FWIW.
He didn’t say Magnus had a higher % win rate, he said he had a higher beneficial outcome rate.
You can literally just listen to his videos without watching it… but, for some reason, i watch this guy stand in front of a green screen and wave his hands around…
Me watching Illiminaughtie videos instead of listening to her podcast
I wish I could watch it now, unfortunately I have a family event and have to pretend existing is fun for a couple hours.
Have you watched it yet?
@@thinefaithfulcrusader2829 not sure, probably. Even if I did, I would've forgotten completely by now...
@@thinefaithfulcrusader2829 if I hadn't before, I have now
I didn't know The Electric Light Orchestra was in charge of Scrabble rankings. That Jeff Lynne is a genius.
I'm in the middle of sanding and refinishing an electric guitar body, when at about 2:50, your rebuttal to the nerds, made me drop what was in my hands and laugh so hard, I doubled over, clinching my workbench, producing tears, only to have my wife come downstairs, ask what's so funny, then call me an idiot as soon as I was able to gather myself and show her... Thank you.
Best part of this channel, is it's literally just a comedic genius talking about whatever the fuck he wants. Me and my homies love this channel.
Wait, he's a kiwi?!
Always has been
Maybe the real kiwi is the friends we made along the way
@@theencolony5595 true
He is gooder than us.
He is probably beter than him and you also.
Man, the last couple days have been really rough, this is the only time i have managed to laugh in weeks. Thank you very much
i hope things get better for you soon
Lowkey the win/draw ratio for Magnus is actually insane especially with the prevalence of draws
The theme of your channel seems to be finding greatness in the nichest places and im here forit
Lmao, I IMMEDIATELY thought when you made the magnus comparison, "wait magnus win rate sounds insanely high if you account for draws" and then you called specifically me an egghead, and, fuck specifically me 😂
Wait this is the guy who learned french vocabulary to win french scrabble but doesnt speak it? Absolute champion
Apparently Magnus Carlsen basically plays to draw instead of win.
I can't quite remember the reasoning, but I think it was because it's easier to force a drawn position and he doesn't need the credits from actually winning to retain his world champion title.
But a 75% win rate in scrabble is kind of insane.
you lose rating for drawing a weaker opponent. the majority of all high level chess games end in a draw. he does, however, play to not lose.
I’ve been talking about this man for a while, it is batshit insane how much talent he has and how many little fucks he gives.
Great video as always.
Love the incredible plays summed up at the end 😂
Honestly love hearing about incredible people I never otherwise would never have. Great video!
I am 100% convinced that every scrabble judge has decided that this man is legally allowed to do whatever he wants because it’s funny
I genuinely love this video. Please make more similar. Great video keep it up!
Another great video as usual. Andrew, you and your videos bring me so much joy in life
Huggbees has the best nerd impression
probably because he is one
@@dan_asd brun wny are vou replvinq to vourself?
@@himanbam bruh why are you replacing h with n and g with q and just two y's with v
@@himanbam that hurt to read
I'm not sure whether I should be more surprised there's competitive scrabble or that there's a living being that's this good at Scrabble
Huggbees’ thumbnails and video titles make me want to sleep to the video but he NEVER MISSES with this expectation shattering content, Love you bro
I think one of the best things that summarizes Nigel is, whenever people or scrabble engines disagree with him, everybody goes 'Nigel played it we are all wrong'
I’ve heard this absolute UNIT of a scrabble player’s story before. But Huggbees presented it in such a humorous and interesting way that I just had to finish watching.
i won a few local Scrabble tournaments back in my high school so this video is weirdly relevant to me
Fav video so far. Hearing about exceptional humans with undeniable skill and power is my fav thing to listen to.
That chlorodine 5th dimensional genius just made my jaw actually drop
It's almost like Nigel is the Huggbees of the Scrabble World. Or would be, if he could work up the sarcasm.
‘He doesn’t kill himself practicing everyday’
- As he learns almost 400,000 French words in 9 weeks
Heres the thing, his main method of practice is free recalling his scrabble practice list on his bike. Scrabble literally is just a side hobby for him.
assuming he looked at it for 12 hours literally half the day he had to fully memorise a word every *slightly less than seven seconds...*
2:00 absolutely killed me. I love the content you’ve been making lately bro
I would say that the most impressive thing about Nigel Richards is that it one time suspected that he might be cheating by French people who couldn't except he whooped their asses after memorizing their entire language in 9 weeks and it was later proven that he couldn't possibly be cheating using a computer algorithm because the best Scrabble AI in the world was worse at Scrabble than Nigel. My man proved he wasn't cheating by showing that cheating would legitimately be a handicap. What a legend.
For those who want specifics on how we know he's better than the Scrabble AI, it's by having computers analyze mistakes made in the game. In any given state of the scrabble board, there is an absolute best possible move, the problem is that computers take forever to find that move, so the best AI has to take shortcuts to find the best move it can find within a reasonable amount of time, however, by having computers slowly analyze games, we can see what mistakes were made and it was found that the AI had a considerably higher mistake rate than Nigel.
To put into perspective what I'm about to say, the top 10 Scrabble players in the world excluding Nigel makes an end-game mistake roughly once every 2 to 3 moves, a mistake not meaning they blundered, just that they didn't play the best possible move. They had computers analyze nearly 1,000 games that Nigel has played and found that he makes a mistake once every 85 fucking turns. That means on average, Nigel makes 0 mistakes per game because the average scrabble game doesn't get that far.
This man is insane.
Which one???
Andrew or Nigel?
Both
Something different about this guy. Really puts his heart and soul into making us laugh while teaching us useless information. Legend!
a few months ago he played PERNOCTATED. If you ever want to update this video, to include PERNOCTATED is a must.
long live nigel, best guy who lives life to the fullest
2:29 that one dude when he hears a person with a voice that sounds under 18
Playing just AU in AUF to block the opponent's possible last bingo. Not only that, based on unseen to go with his leave, he had a chance to win if he drew the right combination to hit SILIQUA or SILIQUAE in separate spot. This was just insane mind! Watch it in Will Anderson Vlog, entitled like "My favourite play of Nigel Richards is AUF."
I love the rebuttal you gave to the magnus-nigel counterargument. A valid point and well made.
My favorite part is always when Huggbees brings it home with something serious.
There are 9 rings of hell which is what it feels like to play nigel in scrabble, this is also video 9 of asking for roasting every country's flag
God I love these types of huggbees videos. Please continue telling us about niche topics in this way
Cooler video than I anticipated. Excelent
I don’t know this man. I didn’t know he existed till I watched this video. I didn’t even know there was competitive Scrabble. However……..any man who learns the entire French dictionary just to utterly humiliate the French at their own game is a fucking super hero in my mind I don’t care who he they are they have my utter respect.
You need to appreciate this mans commitment to not learning fr*nch
Loving this type of video, who else but huggbees could make me care about scrabble for a whole 15 minutes
Yet again, absolutely fuckin killin it with the best video essays I've ever seen in my life.
Imagine being such a gigachad that you learn how to spell the words of a different language just to win their World Championship not once but twice.
Memorizing all the two and three letter words is not hard and boosts your game immensely.
Finally another video I never asked for, that will waste my time for nothing but a miniscule amount of joy from a grown man that likely doesn't know who I am or care for that manner.
Please never stop stranger. I enjoy our relationship.
>click on video
>listen to the first second of the video
>"no"
>close video
Please make a "How Its Actually Made - Babies" video. Provide visuals. I would thoroughly enjoy it.
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The beginning speech destroyed me because I got nothing good
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
The Bonus Plays section at the end is very creative and hilarious for you to do.
[Fi] is not an acceptable word in Scrabble, but he probably played his opponent in that situation, because [fa] and [fe] are also words and he played it with a blank tile and the Nigel Richards pokerface. I manage to get away with a 200+ point play in a tournament, winning a prize for the highest point play, for the word [Arachnes] as a triple-triple. [Arachnes] is not a word, but sounds like one because a lot of suffixes are in themselves words, like [Pseudo]. But it was not challenged, and I brought home $100 and a prize plaque. Good Game.
so youre saying good scrabble play is equal parts memorization and bamboozlery?
It's CHLORODYNE, and they were playing with the international lexicon which includes FY, which was the two-letter word he formed in making the play.
Huggbees, you have inspired me to do a video essay in your style, I can’t wait till I can tweet it at you lol
Reply to this when you do❤
@@SirRaio th-cam.com/video/XSXIqBQQ054/w-d-xo.html
@@SirRaio it’s a 6/10 for me lol
I've never played Scrabble and kind of actively dislike it but Nigel is now my favorite person.
9:58 every day I'm more convinced that huggbees is just Vaas wearing Grant's skin
I feel like huggbee is that weird uncle that always shows up when they need money
I can't say I would be nearly as good at Scrabble as Nigel, but the quote about hearing a word once and recalling an image of it is relatable. I feel like I hear a word once, and five years later, I can remember to use it in a similar context. Like, how many people can randomly remember "fortitudinous" is a word? Being a walking thesaurus hasn't helped me once ever since I left high school and stopped being forced to write pointless English essays, but who knows, maybe I could've been a world professional Scrabble player if I cared.
Nigel didnt care. Go br the next Nigel, young man.
My problem is that while I know the word, I can't recall it out of context. I might consider fortitudinous when describing the digestive tract of one who has recently ingested Taco Bell with no apparent ill effect, but I wouldn't recall it in scrabble. I also don't know the 'loan words' competitive scrabble allows like suq/souq, which google says is a type of market in Arabic. I would not generally consider such words 'valid' English personally, as they are neither Anglo-Saxon or Norman derived, such as Heath or Progeny, respectively, nor are they in common usage like Taquito.
Your videos keep getting better.
I'm just glad you opened my eyes to competition Scrabble.......damn.
I’ll use the same strategy on magic the gathering now!
I’ve never played scrabble so maybe this is just me, but being able to rotate tiles or clap two next to each other to make a different letter seems like something that shouldn’t be allowed. But hey, I didn’t write the rule book so…
You poor thing... that's Huggbees' humor.
The first advertising placement on this video is the best chuckle I've gotten all day
Oh. Neat. TH-cam hasnt sent me a notification for any of these videos or put them in my feed for months. Thanks youtube. Time to binge! Happy new year
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Me: ah, yes, scrabble, the greatest choice of gamers.
My singular braincell looking at the thumbnail, slamming a table with the force of a thousand suns: NO!! YOU BUFFOON!!
*CRBL SABE!!!*
Honestly any day is made great when huggbees uploads
I was halfway through typing "But chess has tie games" and then faced a barrage of abuse
This is absolutely epic!
The worst part is I'm not sure how much of that at the end Huggbees pulled out of his ass