Scrabble Player Demands His Opponent Get Stripped Search in the Bathroom After the Letter G Went Missing at the World Championships

Daily Mail - War of the words: Chollapat Itthi-Aree (left), from Thailand, demanded
officials take Ed Martin (right), from London, to the toilets to search
him for a missing 'G' tile during their Scrabble match

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.

Big tempers fueling at the scrabble world championships.  Haha, this is such a great story.  A bunch of nerds about to throw down because of the letter G.  I can't believe that he actually requested a strip search.  Get a life bro.  Plus we all know that the champion Nigel Richards was hiding a bunch of tiles in his beard.

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.



P.S. - How the hell do you even qualify for this?  You must have to win a local qualifying match.