Scrabble player demands strip-search of opponent after letter 'G' goes missing

A slew of four-letter words was narrowly avoided at this year's World Scrabble Championships when a competitor demanded his opponent be strip-searched after the disappearance of a letter 'G'.
Furious Chollapat Itthi-Aree, from Thailand, demanded officials take Ed Martin, an IT consultant from London, to the toilet and search him believing he had the missing tile about his person.
But judges at the tournament in Warsaw, Poland, disagreed with Mr Itthi-Aree, a 24-year-old maths teacher.
They refused to carry out the search, enabling Mr Martin, 35, to go on to win the game by a single point.

Having words: A Thai player demanded his Brit opponent be strip-searched after a letter 'G' tile disappeared during their fiercely contested match

Over 100 word wranglers from 44 countries contested for the $20,000 first prize which was eventually won by 44-year-old New Zealander Nigel Richards.
Richards, who sported a magnificent beard, combined his tiles to form the word 'omnified' and score an impressive 96 in his final game against Australian Andrew Fisher, 46.
The score finished up at 476-334.

The $20,000 first prize was eventually won by New Zealand wordsmith Nigel Richards

It is the second time Mr Richards has scooped the prestigious title having won before in 2007.
However his acceptance speech sadly lacked the verbal dexterity one might have expected from such an established wordsmith consisting solely of the word 'nice'.
The top performing Briton at the tournament was 32-year-old recruitment consultant Brett Smitheram, from London, who finished in sixth place.

By Daniel Miller taken from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050089/Scrabble-player-demands-strip-search-opponent-letter-G-goes-missing-world-championships.html#ixzz1b3a291uv