So simple and so interesting - what is the name of the game where they pull blocks out of a built tower? What is its meaning and what rules are relevant? Who invented it and why? What are the playing sticks made of and how to build a tower correctly?
So funny at the same time interesting game, called - Jenga. The main point activities: gradual destruction of the tower by pulling out the “bricks” from it. The defining moment is that the tower gradually becomes an unstable structure and every move is risky. On whose turn the arable land fell apart, he lost.
The right set for the game Jenga: what does the set consist of?
It would seem wooden blocks and a flat place to build a pyramid is all Jenga requires. In fact, everything is somewhat more complicated.
- The set must contain 54 wooden blocks. More or less quantities are not acceptable;
- The length of each block should be three times its width;
- The height of the block is half its width;
- Building a tower from plastic “bricks” is not allowed. The right material- tree. It has optimal weight and creates the necessary friction when pulling out the bars.
Building a Jenga tower
In addition to a standardized set, for fair play it is necessary to follow the rules, starting from the construction of the tower.
Jenga bars are laid out next to each other in groups of three. The layer laid on top should lie perpendicular to the lower “floor”.
The tower must stand at players' chest levels, without restricting any player's approach. The game can be played by 2-4 people.
Jenga game rules
What is the name of the game where the bars are pulled out? Do you know what the rules of this game are?
- The most important rule, which is most often not observed in companies, is allowing the bar to be removed with both hands. Original rules They allow play with only one hand. Otherwise, it will lose all meaning;
- The one who built the tower goes first;
- After each move, a block is placed on top of the entire tower;
- It is forbidden to pull out sticks in the top three layers;
- The game continues until the tower is completely or partially destroyed. The exception is the fall of a block that was pulled out by the player in the last move.
Who and why invented the game Jenga: pulling blocks out of a tower
This fun game was invented by Leslie Scott, the founder of the largest toy factory in the UK. A similar idea came to her mind as a teenager. Leslie had best friend suffering from partial damage to the central nervous system. The disease provoked constant shaking of the hands. Leslie Scott wanted to create something that... game form It could be to train and develop the motor skills of a sick friend.
By the way, at the moment, many doctors, educators and parents use the game Jenga to develop motor skills in children over 4 years old.
Varieties of the game Jenga
As in any business, there is no limit to perfection. Modern Jenga sets add some subtleties to make the game even more fun and interesting. For example, Jenga Fant is now gaining popularity - a comical task is written on a block that must be completed by the one who pulled it out.
It's funny, isn't it? But just recently we didn’t even know the name of the game where they pull wooden blocks out of the tower. Now, in addition to the real version of the game, electronic games are also being created that run on regular smartphones.
Since time immemorial, man has had a passion for flying and other entertainment related to being away from earth's surface. Prudent nature did not provide wings, air bubbles, jet engines and other devices in the “higher organism” that would allow it to overcome the force of gravity. In order to somehow realize our dream, we have to invent various devices that will bring us closer to the sky. One of them is towers. Today on the Pink Sofa is the tower-destroying board game “Tower with Forfeits”.
Having created buildings rising up, touching the clouds with their domes, inspired homo sapiens climbs onto the roof and looks triumphantly at the surroundings. Some representatives of the human race use these useless buildings for experiments, dropping cannonballs on the heads of passing comrades and deducing wise formulas. Unfortunately for architects, towers have a tendency to fall, but they do so gracefully and slowly to the admiring glances of those around them. In a word, towers have become an integral part of our lives, so everyone should be able to build them. This is what we will do today.
It is not known for certain who was the first to come up with the idea of cutting the trunk of a century-old oak tree into small pieces and building a tower from them. From time immemorial, children have been building houses from cubes, pebbles and blocks, but the practical Leslie Scott decided to patent this method construction, added to it simple rules and suggested that Hasbro publish a game called Jenga. Everything ingenious is simple, and millions of players around the world have been building towers from wooden blocks for more than 30 years.
And the blocks in my box turned out to be great - polished, smelling like real wood, without knots or potholes. 54 pieces, one to one. Beauty! Lighting a stove is a nice thing, a compact cubic meter of wood for a compact fireplace ( oh, what am I talking about...)
Some rectangles have inscriptions that instruct you to perform some action. Since the version is for children, then... adults can easily cope with the tasks. “Depict a mouse looking for cheese” - no problem! I have three of these mice, and everyone is looking for cheese at night, as well as other goodies in the kitchen...
Let the fires fly!
Cool woodpile... For the game, all the tiles are mixed and placed in tiers, criss-crossing 3x3 blocks. It is better to build this structure on a horizontal (if you find it in our houses) surface, but I managed to build the “Leaning Tower of Pisa” even on my sofa - the structure is quite stable.
Try to ensure that the bars lie flat. The fact is that they will have to be pulled out and placed on top of the assembled base. It looks something like this...
Opponents take turns pushing one block from any floor with one hand and placing it on top of the structure (holding the structure is prohibited). This maneuver must be carried out very carefully, as the building gradually turns into a termite mound eaten away by tunnels.
This cannot go on forever; the tower leans dangerously, rivaling its famous Italian brother, and falls with a roar to the joyful cries of those around. Actually, whoever is the “hero of the occasion” collects a mountain of blocks and packs them in a box. If you think this is easy to do, then... then you know the super secret of Jenga packaging! Otherwise, give your friends a lot of positive emotions.
It remains to mention that the one who pulls out the block with the “magic order” is obliged to fulfill it. If you refuse, shame on you forever and ever...
Why are you standing there swinging, Jenga from China...
As a child, I spent part of the summer with great benefit at my grandmother’s, receiving invaluable life experience: climbed through neighbors' orchards for apples, ate someone's raspberries, ran from an evil collective farm watchman and jumped on the roofs of garages (nowadays this is called the fashionable word parkour). And my friends and I had a game called “Izbushka” (I don’t know what it’s called in the original). Take a box of matches and use them to assemble a kind of well with overlapping 4x4 sticks. Then we carefully pulled out the matches and placed them on top of the “house”.
Whoever brought down the hut ran to the orchard for apples. Who would have thought that we were playing the family game of the respected Leslie Scott. And if you remember the towers made of plastic cubes, which I made when I was 3-4 years old in a similar way (there were few cubes, so I made the base, and then rearranged the blocks from bottom to top), then I can rightfully say that I also have a similar “family game passed down from generation to generation”...
But seriously, the game is excellent, and at the same time simple to the point of absurdity: a handful of blocks, basic rules and funny tasks. There are no age restrictions for this game; if you have overcome the age of “what I see is what I eat,” then feel free to pick up the blocks and build your own tower. You will need dexterity and a lot of luck - sometimes the bars line up in such an intricate pyramid that, looking at the construction, you involuntarily question the fundamental laws of physics.
When purchasing, pay attention to the quality of the bars - they must be perfectly polished, since the slightest knot will “pull” the entire building along with it. There is nothing to complain about in my copy - “ Fun Games» production of wooden parts is carried out at high level... I was pleasantly surprised by the “bonus” in the form of tasks burned on the blocks - it’s definitely more fun to play. People of royal blood, of course, can ignore the inscriptions and simply rearrange the bars meaningfully - but according to their status, they are not supposed to have fun...
The game was provided for review by the online store " ABC Science", a wide range of which will allow you to choose interesting model, both for children and adults.
The Leaning Tower, or Jenga as it is also called, is a popular and interesting board game for a group. It's not like the usual games. There are no chips or cards in it, but there are blocks of natural unpainted wood (birch).
Build a flat tower from the bars using the special corner included in the game set. Each row should have three bars, each subsequent row is folded in a direction transverse to the previous one. You will get 18 such rows! Turn the corner over and remove it. On the table there will be a tall, eighteen-story impregnable tower. Now players can go on an attack.
There can be as many participants in the battle as there are friends in your company. Each player chooses any level to attack and pulls out one of the bars with one hand! This block, which ends up in the player’s hands, is placed on the new, top floor of the structure. All actions are performed by the participant so that the tower of bars does not collapse! The culprit of the disaster is considered the loser! Sanctions can be applied to it, which the players consider fair; with this rule, the game will be more intense and longer. If you play without it, the game will be more dynamic. Choose the option that suits you. And if your company brings together dexterous, attentive and intelligent participants, the height of your tower can double!
In the end, if you get tired of playing, the blocks can be used as a set of cubes for a little builder, since they do not contain varnishes, dyes or stains, but are made from environmentally friendly Vyatka birch.
Equipment:
- 54 bars;
- rules of the game.
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How to win at Jenga?
In the century computer games When children and adults are stuck on their gadgets, it becomes a complete revelation for many that in addition to many similar online strategies and shooters, there is an equally attractive world of board games that can captivate people of any age and gender.
The most important and most valuable thing that board games can give is communication, which people are deprived of by their own smartphones.
We can say with confidence that board games like Monopoly or Mafia can make you put down your phones and forget about them for many hours, especially if there is a fun company nearby!
In my opinion, perhaps the most exciting and absorbing game is the one that received lately widely known game Jenga. If anyone doesn’t know yet, Jenga is a set of blocks that are stacked into a tower. One day, the seven-year-old daughter of our friends was given Jenga as a gift. At first the child was not particularly happy with her, because he did not understand what to do with her. The adults began to help, and it was almost impossible to separate them from the construction of the tower. Everyone was waiting for their turn to try their luck in building a “skyscraper” from wooden blocks.
A little history
Jenga - board game, unusual name which means “to build” in Swahili. The idea for the game came from Leslie Scott, a British game designer of Tanzanian origin. As a child, she loved building pyramids from wooden cubes, which probably inspired her to create Jenga. The first batches of the game hit the shelves in London in 1983, and Hasbro subsequently acquired the rights to it.
The game gained wide popularity thanks to the very simple rules games that are understandable to both adults and children. By folding the “floors” of the tower, three blocks in each, you need to fold the tower, then you need to transfer the bars from the lower floors to the upper ones so that the tower does not fall. The loser is the one whose tower falls.
Path to Victory
It would seem that everything is simple in this game, but even here there are some tricks and ways to victory. And here we would like to offer you our strategy.
1. Take your time!
Don't push yourself. Leslie Scott makes the following recommendation: “If you rush in Jenga, you will lose more than you win. Feel each brick and start with those that are easy to pull out. Leave the more immovable bars for later, when the weight of the tower has been redistributed and they can be easily removed.”
2. No strategy
Forget about any strategy, just don't waste your time on it. Why? Because each block is at least slightly different in weight and size from the others, so all the towers that you will collect before starting the game will be different.
3. Higher is not better
Many people try to build the highest possible tower. Therein lies the mistake. The higher the tower, the more unstable it is.
4. Be nimble
The rules state that when pulling the bars out of the tower, you can only use one hand. But the hands get tired under tension, which can have a bad effect on the result. But the rules don't say anything about changing hands. Also, nowhere does it say that you cannot balance the tower with your shoulder, using your hand as a brace.
5. Control the tower
If it seems to you that there are no more available bricks left, it is quite possible to make them so. How? For example, if the central block on the “floor” was removed, but two side blocks remained, clamp them at one edge (making them a diagonal in a square), and then remove one of them.
6. Distribute the load to your advantage
Placing blocks on top of the tower can give you an advantage over your opponent. You can make it more difficult for your opponent by stacking the bars on only one side. But be careful, if your opponent copes with your trap, you may end up in a “shaky” situation.
From own experience I can say that the biggest difficulty in the game was coping with laughter, which in most cases was the reason for losing.
You can buy from our store and try to implement the strategy for success in the game with your friends. Believe me good mood You're guaranteed!
Do you want to find out how dexterous you are and have a sense of balance, then the Jenga tower game is exactly what you need. If you are smart, have well-developed manual dexterity, and have a masterful sense of balance, then this is for you. This game will captivate not only children, but also adults; be careful and attentive, and then you will be able to build a tower twice as high as the original one.
Assemble a tower from wooden blocks, taking blocks from the lower “floors” and completing the tower from above. The number of players is unlimited, as is their age.
Rules of the Jenga tower game
- Gather the players and choose a "master" builder. He must build a tower of 18 floors. Lay out all the blocks in front of you and start assembling the tower. The first floor consists of three blocks lying closely parallel to each other. Subsequent floors consist of three bars lying perpendicular to the existing ones. And so all the bars are laid out on top of each other.
- Level the tower so that the Jenga walls are level and the tower stands on its own.
- The one who built the tower goes first. He takes one block from any floor and places it on the top row. The next player takes out another block and places it next to the previous player's block. Attention: you can only remove the bars with one hand. The bars can be touched to find one that moves freely and is easily removed.
- Bars from the top row cannot be taken. A row is considered complete when there are three bars there.
- The game continues until the tower collapses. The tower is considered to have fallen if any block falls except the one the player is holding in his hand. The player who placed his block last won, and the structure stood. If desired, the game can be continued if only a few blocks have fallen.
So, the basic rules are clear. But what if you have learned to master this game and it no longer seems so interesting?
Then you can turn into a Jenga tower. Write a task on the side of each block and each player who takes it out will have to complete it. Or you can number the bars according to the numbers on the dice and remove from the tower only the block whose number appears on the die.
And these are just the most simple options. The rules of the game are limited only by your imagination. Get together with family or friends and play Leaning Jenga Tower.