Transsexual Brit is Scrabble champ

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Transsexual Brit is Scrabble champ
01 November, 2010


http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/11/01/Transsexual-Brit-is-Scrabble-champ/UPI-30271288651966/


LONDON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Britain's four-time Scrabble champion was bested at the national contest by a transsexual player who only began playing the word game five years ago.

Mikki Nicholson, 32, who is biologically a man but lives as a woman, defeated returning champion Mark Nyman, who has won more than 20 major tournaments, including a world championship, by playing "obeisant" for 86 points in the fifth round of the British national championship in London, The Guardian reported Monday.