A Jewish scrabble player from London has come within a whisker of winning this year’s National Scrabble Championship, with the final of the 78-player tournament coming down to just one letter. Elie Dangoor, 63, narrowly lost in a tense match to Brett Smitheram, 43, a scrabble grand master and reigning UK national scrabble champion who is already one of the most successful players in the history of the game. Dangoor, whose brother David is a well-known Jewish philanthropist, galloped into an early lead with words such as ‘blowiest’, ‘pricier’, and ‘encave’ – a triple word score – but a Smitheram...