Joel Wapnick [SEP] date of birth
Joel Wapnick
Joel Wapnick (born 1946) is a Scrabble player from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, best known for winning the 1999 World Scrabble Championship (WSC).
Wapnick reached the WSC finals in 1993 and 2001. Wapnick also won the US National Scrabble Championship in 1983 and the Canadian National Scrabble Championship in 1998 and 2011(1), along with a string of other events. 
Wapnick and Adam Logan (WSC 2005, US NSC 1996, CNSC 1996, 2006, 2008, 2013) are the only players
take the last tile out of the bag. With Wapnick having multiple places to go out, Nyman was unable to catch him and lost by a single point. Joel Wapnick could now add a world title to his US national title and Canadian title, one of only two players to have won the big three.
Complete Results.
- Finals
- Game 1: Wapnick 624 - Nyman 307
- Game 2: Nyman 444 - Wapnick 330
- Game 3: Wapnick 462 - Nyman 339
- Game