Francophone Scrabble over 14 games with a best of three final on the final day. Seven players have won the individual duplicate world title more than once: The records for the most wins at the following championships are At least five competitors from the Francophone championship have competed in the English language World Scrabble Championship; Antonin Michel, Hervé Bohbot, Dan Laurentiu Sandu, Robert Springer, and Nigel Richards. Francophone Scrabble Francophone Scrabble, or French-language Scrabble, is played by many thousands of amateurs throughout the world and the "Fédération internationale de Scrabble francophone" has more than 20,000 members. Just as in English, points are
Scrabble same board and the players must submit a paper slip at the end of the allotted time (usually 3 minutes) with the highest scoring word they have found. This is the format used for the French World Scrabble Championships but it is also used in Romanian and Dutch. There is no limit to the number of players that can be involved in one game, and at Vichy in 1998 there were 1485 players, a record for French "Scrabble" tournaments. "Scarabeo" is a variant that is much more popular in Italy than the original game. It features a 17×17 grid of