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World Scrabble Championship 2025

The WESPA World Scrabble Championship 2025 (WESPAC) was organised by WESPA and held in Accra, Ghana from November 11 to 16. The best-of-7 final was between Nigel Richards and Adam Logan.

Results

Finals

The winner was Adam Logan.

In the first game, Nigel had bingo while Adam had and . Adam won 450–375.

In the second game, Nigel had bingos , , and while Adam had and . Nigel won 510–440.

In a phenomenal third game, Nigel had bingos and a 92-point . After Nigel played QIN, Adam played a 103-point with four hooks, two on QIN and two on WITH, starting an unlikely comeback. Nigel then played bingo , opening a triple-triple. Adam then played the 149-point over the triple-triple to surge into the lead. At the very end, Adam played an inspired RAJA to block Nigel's game-winning bingo to win 515–499 for a total of over 1000 points to complete one of the best comebacks ever seen in a World Championship final.

In the fourth game, Adam played bingo after Nigel sensationally misplaced for a phony that he had to remove for zero points. Adam missed a high point HM hook. Nigel then had bingos , , while Adam had . Nigel won 509–436 to level the game score 2–2.

In the fifth game where Adam was consonant heavy and Nigel vowel heavy, Nigel had bingos , while Adam had and and an 88-point JAMS. Adam won 467–448.

In the sixth game Nigel had bingos while Adam had and . Adam won 455–379 to win the championship by 4 games to 2.

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