The winner was Mark Nyman,[1] representing the United Kingdom, as this was before the countries of the UK were given individual representation.
The first game of the finals looked like it would go Nyman's way when he bingoed with MUTAGENIC from an MU on his second play and then challenged off Wapnick's DOX.
But Nyman later played a phony of his own (VERGINGS) and then got stuck with the Q while Wapnick drew both blanks and won by 38.
The fourth game again started close, until Wapnick scored 212 points on three successive turns (though he missed a 107-point bingo in the process) and took a seemingly insurmountable 174-point lead.
The key point in the final game came when Wapnick, holding a blank, played STUM instead of SMUR (of which he was unsure).