Monopoly is one of the most popular board games worldwide wherein players take turns rolling dice to move around, buying, trading and developing properties to accumulate wealth. The goal is to bankrupt opponents by charging them rent when they land on your properties.

Briton Neil Scallan is perhaps the most avid fan of Monopoly having collected 4,379 variations of it from around the world.

The number won him a fourth Guinness World Record for having the largest Monopoly game collection. Scallan was also the record holder in 2016 with 1,677 boards, in 2017 with 1,999, and in 2018 with 2,249.

Meanwhile, New Zealander Nigel Richards, who is on top of the rankings of the World English-language Scrabble Players Association, is not just the best English Scrabble player in the world.

Richards, who is in his 50s, bested more than 145 opponents from across the world to win this year’s Spanish World Scrabble Championships held in Granada, Spain last month, CNN reports.

Players from Spanish-speaking countries Argentina, Venezuela, Spain and Colombia participated in the tournament organized by the Federación Internacional de Léxico en Español. Richards won all 22 matches to emerge champion, adding the win to the 200 tournaments he had won since 1996, including the French language title he won in 2015.

Strangely, Richards doesn’t speak Spanish and SWSC runner-up Benjamín Olaizola of Venezuela admitted that the Kiwi’s domination of his rivals was incredibly humiliating. Olaizola noted that Richards uses complex words and not the obvious words his opponents expect, catching them off guard.

Explaining how Richards was amazingly good in non-English Scrabble games, his friend Liz Fagerlund said that he memorizes foreign Scrabble dictionaries before a tournament.

Richards spent nine weeks memorizing the French Scrabble dictionary’s nearly 400,000 words, Fagerlund recalled, according to CNN.

“It’s most likely that he’s wired differently; he doesn’t even study the pages word for word,” Fagerlund told CNN. “He can look at a page full of words and absorb them all.”