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TRIVIA TODAY - October 27, 2014
Greetings Infomaniacs, Last weekend we went out to celebrate my friend's birthday, and the establishment we went to had a life-sized Jenga game.
Jenga is a game that consists of a tower of bricks and players take turns removing one brick at a time and balance them on top of the tower. The structure grows gradually taller but also less balanced. The game is over when the tower falls over.
Usually, it's a small game that sits on a tabletop, but this was almost as tall as us and I almost needed a step stool to reach the top once the tower grew!
It was definitely entertaining to play, and certainly loud whenever it toppled.
Here are some fun Jenga facts for you today.
Enjoy!
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HINT: (1593-1633), English metaphysical poet and clergyman.
RANDOM TIDBITSLeslie Scott, game designer and author, developed the original JENGA Classic game from a wood block stacking game her family had created in Ghana in the 1970s.
Introduced to the public at the famous Harrod's department store in London in 1982, JENGA was launched in North America in 1986, and has since become an international game icon.
The record for the highest known JENGA tower is 40 complete stories with two blocks into the 41st, claimed in 1985 by Robert Grebler (US).
The name "jenga" derives from a Swahili word meaning "to build."
The V&A Museum of Childhood in London has exhibited one of the original sets of Jenga since 1982.
Today, according to Leslie Scott, over 50 million Jenga games, equivalent to more than 2.7 billion Jenga blocks, have been sold worldwide.
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