WATCH: South Africa's new Scrabble champion and the missing Survivor idol | AlexMitchley
Io is a valid Scrabble word. Didn't know that? Well, the newly crowned South African Scrabble champion Dr Harry Wiggins does, and it's one of the many words in his arsenal that took him to the top.
"I'm over the moon. It’s a super strong field; a lot of these players have been playing Scrabble for more than 10 years," Wiggins said. "You had to create a palindrome phrase, but when I saw the letters I immediately saw the answer," he said, beaming. But after changing the idol's hiding spot several times, it became a puzzle that he could not solve - he could not remember the exact spot of where it was hidden.
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