Maddeningly Addictive (Jenga)

Member Name: paulie1975

Product:	Jenga
Date:	17/02/09 (43 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great fun, cheap, you can have as many players as you want

Disadvantages: Not great if you have shaky hands

A fantastic game popular around the world, Jenga is strangely addictive and a great ice breaker with friends or people you've never met.

Creator - Parker
Manufacturer - Hasbro
Date of Creation - 2003

Jenga is available for purchase for £6.99 from most decent toystores, it is available in Debenhams, Harrods, Toys R'Us, Hamleys, Tescos and many other places, as well as amazon and other online retailers.

What is Jenga

Jenga is a game containing 54 domino sized wooden blocks, the object of the game is to be the last player to stack a block without knocking the tower over.

How to Play the Game

Using the loading tray, you build up the tower by placing rows of 3 wooden blocks at right angles to each otherm then remove the tray and leave the tower free standing.

You then start the game with the person who built the tower taking a block from any row of the tower, it then moves on to the next person clock wise who takes a block, this continues until somebody takes a block from anywhere on the tower and it falls, as you take a block from anywhere in the tower you must add it to the top of the tower if when adding it the tower falls you lose.

The last player to move a block without making the tower collapse wins, they then set up the tower for the next game.

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My thoughts of the game

I love Jenga, i've played it in bars in Thailand, Patagonia, New York and Suffolk, it is a great laugh and can really start conversations, i'm rubbish at it as I have shaky hands so i'm ok taking the block out of the tower but my big failure is adding it to the top of the tower, it can become strangely addictive and in some bars there are lifesized Jenga boards, but as a simple game that costs around a fiver it is great fun and brilliant at keeping anybody from 5 upwards entertained for ages!!!

Summary: Maddeningly Addictive