Towering Infirmo (Throw 'N' Go Jenga)

Member Name: Diaz

Product:	Throw 'N' Go Jenga
Date:	04/01/01 (92 review reads)
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Advantages: Good entertainment for all ages

Disadvantages: It's just wooden blocks, thats all it is, wood

I don’t know where I pulled out the terrible pun for the title but I apologise unreservedly for it. Now on with the review....

Jenga, Jenga, Jenga!!! Through an alcohol induced haze the Jenga (throw n go edition, will Americans ever learn to spell??) arrived at the freshly cleared Christmas table. I’d never played before so I had the rules explained, pretty simple, take out the bricks using one hand and don’t knock it over, was I up to the job?? I can’t remember how much I’d had to drink by this point but it was getting close to a bottle of red. Now the twist here is there are three colours of blocks and you get to roll a dice to decide which colour you draw, these advanced rules were beginning to addle my squiffy brain but into the fray I went.

The stack was stacked, probably the most difficult bit of the game, and we took turns. The dice was rolled and bricks were removed from the base of the tower to be placed on the top of what was soon became a very tall and very unstable tower. Now I must confess the simple things in life do amuse me and this was brilliant, the smug satisfaction gained from simply managing what seems to be the impossible feat of removing a wooden brick was great, or was it the alcohol??

Since everyone else had been doing pretty much the same as me voices were raised in excitement as we taunted each other, this attracted another element into the equation, the kids. The tower was already unstable when my 20-month-old son decided it looked really interesting. Now at the best of times knocking down a tower of blocks is simply irresistible for him, let alone a 30 level wibbly wobbly Jenga tower. Needless to say much to his and everybody else’s amusement we struggled to keep him away from the tower long enough to finish the game, he loved seeing the tower fall just as much as everyone else did.

Alcohol probably enhances the Jenga experience but reduces the ability. As
a game for all the family its good, my three and a half year old daughter enjoyed it, especially since she beat her Mum, but then again she wasn’t drinking!!

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