A new world Scrabble champion has been crowned thanks to his knowledge of classroom furniture.
David Eldar, 27, beat his opponent Harshan Lamabadusurilya 3-0 in a best of five final – placing the word “carrels”, a cubicle desk, to score 74 points.
As well as the title, Eldar, who has been playing the board game for 14 years, took home £7,000 in prize money.
He is ranked second in the world and works in real estate in London.
The runner up, who is ranked 16th in the world and has been playing Scrabble for two decades, will take home £3,000.
Some of the words the pair managed to produce during the final included Obvs, slang for obvious, scoring 10 and Asinicos, meaning stupid fellows, scoring 64.
