If you are not sure how to play the game, or of the Jenga rules, you can learn all about it here.
Jenga is fun, easy, and perfect for people of all ages. It also happens to be a great bar game.
showJenga is a game that requires quite a few different skills to win.
You need steadiness of hand, hand-eye coordination, precision, patience, and concentration skills, as well as a strategic mindset while playing.
A decent understanding of architecture doesn’t hurt either.
Essentially the game consists of 54 wooden blocks that are stacked on top of each other.
You start with three blocks laying on the table or another hard surface you have chosen, and then you continue to stack three more on top of each layer.
Each layer is placed at a right angle to the last one, so they are not all facing the same direction (the game comes with a stacking sleeve to make this easier).
Each player takes turns removing and re-stacking the blocks.
The game is over when either the tower collapses or if any block falls from the tower (other than the one that was removed).
One great aspect of this game is that you can easily play it by yourself or add as many additional players that you would like.
We’ll go into much more detail below about how to play Jenga.
But now that you have a basic idea of what the game of Jenga entails, let’s talk about its history.
A woman named Leslie Scott created Jenga, she is also one of the founders of Oxford Games Ltd.
The game originally started as a game she played in the 1970’s – it simply evolved from her children’s building blocks into the living room staple it is today.
Leslie Scott was originally from the United Kingdom and moved to West Africa as an adult.
She first exposed the world to Jenga at the London Toy Fair in January of 1983 and had it sold through, Leslie Scott Associates.
The very first sets of Jenga were produced by the Camphill Village Trust in Yorkshire.
In 1984, a Californian entrepreneur named Robert Grebler requested the ability to import and distribute Jenga throughout Canada.
In April of 1985, he received the exclusive rights from Leslie Scott for the game in both Canada and the United States. Later that same year in October, he received worldwide rights to Jenga.
After that point, Grebler created Pokonobe Associates along with a few family members to distribute the game.
This company then licensed Irwin Toy to sell the game, who then licensed Schaper to sell the game.
Hasbro, later on, bought Schaper, so Jenga began to be launched under Milton Bradley in 1987.
Hasbro then became the licensee for most of the countries in the world.
As of 2017, over 80 million sets of Jenga have been sold all around the globe.
Wondering how many individual blocks there are in the world? It’s about 4.3 billion.
