Tower of sticks. Board game "Jenga" ("Tower") and its varieties

Very rarely there is a desire to spend an hour or two on the analysis of the rules of a board game, isn't that so? The family dinner is already over, the children have scattered in all directions, and sometimes I really want to gather everyone together for an exciting activity! Look at the rules of the classic "" in your free minute, and a fun evening with your loved ones is guaranteed!

Target

Build a tower as tall as possible while avoiding collapsing it on your turn.

Preparation

In order to start the game, you need to build 18 tightly adjacent floors from 54 wooden blocks. The base is three wood blocks, and all subsequent floors are located perpendicular to the previous ones.

In the game "Jenga" can take part from two to four people aged from 6 years. Thus, even the youngest member of the family will be able for some time to direct all their energy and enthusiasm for the construction and grandiose collapse of the tower, which is invariably accompanied by happy squeals.

Many parents involve children and under 6 years of age in the construction of the structure, justifying this by the fact that the game perfectly develops a sense of balance, motor skills and attentiveness of little builders.

Stroke

After you have gathered everyone at one table, there is little left to do: explain how to turn an already high eighteen-story building into a whole tower, carved out of wood.

First you need to figure out who makes the first move. It would be fair enough to give this right to the one who erected and prepared the blocks for the game. If all the players took part in this action, then the first move can go to any of them: the one who has a birthday, who really wants to be the first to start the game, or the one who was the last to eat sweets - it's up to you!

The first player takes one wooden block from any level, except for the two upper floors, and places it at the very top of the structure. Sounds simple, but is it really?

In this game, there is one rule that makes the task of builders very difficult: you can only use one hand. You cannot, while pulling out the block, push it from the other side with the other hand. Of course, this rule can be bypassed by the youngest builders, since at first it is difficult to manage even for adults.

Have you started pulling out a block of wood and see the tower tilting to one side, ready to collapse? Stop and pull out another block that does not imbalance the building.

The game is over when the tower collapses. Of course, like a lot of entertainment, Jenga has a winner and a loser, but its concept can change depending on your mood and desire for competition.

Do you want to entertain a noisy company and set up your rivals? On your turn, you can pull out blocks in such a way that the tower loses its cherished balance and sways from side to side, complicating the further process. In this case, you need to act as carefully as possible so that the structure does not collapse from your hands.

And if you have a desire to spend a pleasant evening with your loved ones, to unite in order to build a monumental structure, then act carefully, harmoniously, set records for the number of floors and overcome them all together!

Description of the game

Video review of the Tower board game from the Game expert!

Reviews and comments (31)

Feedback | PLAYER | 02/23/2019

Stealing Jenga's game by slightly changing the parameters of the bars ("significant design differences") and replacing the name with the native Russian is a worthy answer to Obama from the millennial superpower.

Feedback | Tatiana, Togliatti | 22.03.2017

About the cubes. In our game there are also 4 cubes and there are numbers on the blocks. So that all the blocks were involved, we agreed to arrange them in random order and pull out the block not only with the number of the sum from the dice, but also with any combination that fell on the dice.

Feedback | Anna, Orenburg | 02/07/2016

There are 4 dice in a set, even if 6 dice fall out in each, then there will be 24. There are 54 blocks, that is, the maximum number of blocks that can fall is 24, and the rest remain unused, is that how it should be?

Answer from the Igroved store: Anna, hello. We assume you have the numbers version of the game. It is probably implied that the lower floors with the bars remain stationary during the game.

Feedback | Anna, Orenburg | 02/06/2016

How to control bones there are 4 of them, and there are 54 blocks.

Answer from the Igroved store: Anna, good afternoon. Please clarify your question.

Feedback | Sergey, Orenburg | 29.11.2015

I saw the same at my friends, only with a cube and a colored one, you have the same colored one, but there are 3 bars in a row, and I saw exactly 4 in a row 6 colors and with a cube, I would like just this

Answer from the Igroved store: Sergey, hello. V this moment there is only one version of the color game Jenga in our range.

Feedback | Anastasia, Moscow | 20.11.2015

Hello!
Please tell me the size of the blocks and their number, for a tower of 3 bars per floor.
Thanks to!

Answer from the Igroved store: Anastasia, hello! In our assortment there is a game Tower (with a rectangular section of the bars) - beech, in which you need to build 3 blocks per floor. It consists of 54 bars, the size of one is 7.5 cm x 2.4 cm x 1.5 cm.

Feedback | Dima, Sverdlovsk | 15.05.2015

The game is a hit. The game that the whole world has been playing for 40 years. A game that is presented for birthdays, holidays and corporate parties.

Jenga is a kind of benchmark - a fun game with simple rules. It's easy to play alone, two or four! Even if you just put Jenga on the table, it will fit into any interior!

The rules of the game are explained in just a minute. First you need to build a tower. We spread 3 bars on a table or other flat surface, on them 3 more bars perpendicular to the first row, and so on, until we have laid out all 45 bars. Jenga of 15 levels is ready!

The game has begun! In turn, the players pull out one piece at a time and place it on top of the tower. You cannot take bars from the top two rows. Only one hand can be used. That's all the rules. But you can complicate the task by pulling out the bars with the numbers that have dropped out on the dice.

If you play big fun company, then everyone will be the winner, except for the "lucky one" who destroyed the tower on his turn.

Equipment:

• 45 wooden blocks;
• 2 cubes.

From time immemorial, a person has a passion for flights and other entertainments associated with separation from the earth's surface. Prudent nature did not provide for wings, air bubbles, jet engines and other devices in the "higher organism" to overcome the force of gravity. In order to somehow realize your dream, you have to invent various devices that will bring us closer to heaven. One of them is the towers. Today on the Pink Couch - the destructive board game "Tower with Phantoms".

Having created buildings that rise upward, touching the clouds with their domes, the inspired homo sapiens climbs 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-in-arms and deriving wise formulas. Unfortunately for architects, the towers have a tendency to fall, but they do it gracefully and slowly under the admiring glances of others. In a word, towers have become an integral part of our life, so everyone should be able to build them. This is what we will do today.

It is not known for certain who first came up with the idea to cut the trunk of a century-old oak into small pieces and build a tower out of them. From time immemorial, children put together houses from cubes, pebbles and blocks, but the practical Leslie Scott decided to patent this method of construction, added to it simple rules and invited Hasbro to 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 cool - polished, smelling of real wood, without knots and potholes. 54 pieces, one to one. The beauty! To heat the stove is a nice thing, a compact cubic meter of firewood 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 ... and adults may well cope with the tasks. "To portray 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 ...

Soar up with bonfires!

Cool woodpile ... For the game, all the dice are mixed and placed in tiers in a criss-cross 3x3 block. 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 keep the sticks straight. 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 (it is forbidden to hold the structure). It is necessary to make this maneuver very carefully, since gradually the building turns into a termite mound, eaten by passages.

This cannot go on forever, the tower tilts dangerously, rivaling its famous Italian counterpart, and falls with a crash under the joyful cries of those around it. Actually, whoever is the "hero of the occasion" collects a mountain of cubes and packs them in a box. If you think it's 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 prescription" is obliged to fulfill it. If you refuse - shame and shame on you forever and ever ...

Why are you standing swinging Jenga from China ...

As a child, I spent part of the summer with my grandmother with great benefit, gaining invaluable life experience: I climbed the neighboring gardens for apples, gorged on someone's raspberries, ran from the evil collective farm watchman and jumped on the roofs of garages (now this is called the fashionable word parkour). And my friends and I had a game called "Hut" (as it is called in the original - I do not know). A box of matches is taken, a kind of well with overlapping 4x4 sticks is assembled from them. Then we carefully pulled out the matches and put them on top of the "house".

Whoever brought down the hut ran into the garden for apples. Who would have thought that we are playing the family game of the respected Leslie Scott. And if you remember the towers of plastic cubes, which I made at 3-4 years old in the same way (there were few cubes, so I made a 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, at the same time simple to the point of absurdity: a handful of bars, elementary 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 take the bars in your hands and build your tower. You will need dexterity and a lot of luck - sometimes the bars line up in such an intricate pyramid, then looking at the building, you involuntarily question the fundamental laws of physics.

When buying, pay attention to the workmanship 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 - the production of wooden parts is set at a high level at the "Nes boring Games" ... I was pleasantly surprised by the "bonus" in the form of tasks burnt on the blocks - it is 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 is provided for review by the online store " ABC", a wide range of which will allow you to choose an interesting model for both a child and an adult.

Many have tried their hand at an exciting game at least once, where manual dexterity and a clear mind are the main keys to success. A popular game originally from the 70s, it was invented by the Englishwoman Leslie Scott when she was still little. Usually children are attracted to the game from 5-6 years old, but from experience, a developed three-year-old is able to understand the rules.

Typically used for the game 54 wooden blocks, less often - 48 or 60. The width of each piece of wood is three times less than the length and twice the height. This is important in order to build a level tower. The goal of the game is to take turns to get the bars from the built tower and move them up. With each stroke, the instability of the structure grows upward.

Rules of the game

You can play from 2 people, the optimal number of players is 3-5. First you need to choose what will build the structure. He will make the first move. The participant lays out pieces of wood in 18 floors, 3 on each. In the first row, the bars are laid in parallel, in the second - perpendicularly, and so on in turn.

In a clockwise direction, the participants pull out one element from the structure (with the exception of the first 2 upper floors) and place it at the top of the tower. Only one hand participates in the game: it is forbidden to hold, pull out with two. After each player's action, it is necessary to wait 10 seconds - if the structure does not fall, the right to move goes to the next one. The game ends when the structure collapses - the player whose move was at the moment of the fall is considered a loser.

Jenga - the secrets of the game

Jenga is not a game where beginners are lucky. However, to win, you will need not only experience, but also attentiveness and luck. There are several tips to help you emerge victorious from the game:

• remember that loose elements do not have to be at the top or at the edges. Don't forget to check the middle of the tower;
• it is safer to pick out the side bars, and push out the central ones;
• the smoother and softer your movements, the more chances that the structure will not collapse. Sudden movements are dangerous destruction;
• when the structure begins to tilt, inspect opposite side- several free bars will appear there;
• do not forget that your goal is to win at any cost, so substitute your opponents, take risks and aggravate the slope of the tower. However, first think about whether the structure will collapse on your move.

These little tricks will help you become a winner. In addition, we note that this exciting game is recommended by experts for home collections of board games, as it has a positive effect on the brain and fine motor skills.