A champion’s first Scrabble game

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my

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elder brother, he brought it home. I was

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like 14,

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15. Back then I was a fan of such board

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games like Monopoly, chess and all that

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and I got naturally drawn to it.

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I played my first official tournament

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scrabble in 2002 and uh it was in 2015

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that the efforts paid off. I won my

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first world championship. It was it was

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a very very very very euphoric moment.

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It's beyond it's beyond explaining. It

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was special that I won because I was the

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first African to even get to the final.

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You know, everybody wanted let it be

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something that is possible to do this

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irrespective of your race, irrespective

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of your uh beginnings, irresective of

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where you come from and all of that. And

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now, no more waiting. Here are

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Wellington's tips that will turn you

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into a Scrabble wiz.

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Once you think in terms of prefixes and

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suffixes, it makes it easy for you to

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now arrange the other tiles before the

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suffix to form a valid word. Something