The final game board. (The National Scrabble Championship.)

Florigen. Naiad. Trooz. Those are just three of the crazy words that make up the final game board from this year’s National Scrabble Championship, which concluded last night. (By the way, barf was also one of the words.)

The champion was Conrad Bassett-Bouchard, a 24-year-old from Portland, Oregon, who beat out more than 500 fierce Scrabble competitors (including a five-time consecutive winner, Nigel Richards) to take home the top prize of $10,000.

Champion Conrad Bassett-Bouchard. (The National Scrabble Championship)

The tournament ran for five days at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center in New York. Players came from around the world, including Thailand, Nigeria, and Great Britain.

Jason Li, the tournament runner-up. (The National Scrabble Championship)

Runner up Jason Li, a 29-year-old chemistry teacher hailing from Montreal, Canada, put up a great fight in the final round against Bassett-Bouchard. The final score was 478 to 350. Among the words played in the final game were simply, qua, aa, tidy, docents, and jugs.

At next year’s tournament, competitors will be able to play a batch of new words added to the Scrabble dictionary earlier this month, including chillax, frenemy, selfie, and hashtag. Check out more of the new words.