Board game wiss toy rules. Board Game Jenga Boom (Tower)

The word "jenga" is an imperative from "kujenga", which means "to build" in Swahili. What is being built in this game? Tower! Until she falls...

It would seem, what kind of game can be with wooden blocks? Well, build something using it as a constructor, that's about it. However, the developer of the game - Leslie Scott - approached the issue of construction from a completely different angle. Building in Jenga will have to be done wisely. The very idea of ​​the game originated in the Leslie family in the early 1970s, and initially it used ordinary children's wooden blocks. Then, special game blocks were made: each block is three times its width long, and its height is about half its width.

To reveal the intrigue of the tower, you need to familiarize yourself with the rules of the game themselves. So, 54 wooden blocks participate in the game. To start the game, you need to build a tower with a height of 18 floors. Each floor consists of three blocks laid close and parallel to each other. The blocks of each next floor are placed perpendicular to the blocks of the previous floor.

After the tower is built, the game begins. The players have the right to move. The one who built the tower goes first. A turn in "Jenga" consists of pulling one block from any level (except the one directly below the unfinished top) of the tower. The pulled block must be placed at the top of the tower so that it can be completed (you cannot complete the floors under the unfinished top level). Only one hand is allowed to remove the block; the second hand can also be used, but you can only touch the tower with one hand at a time. Blocks can be nudged to find the one that sits the most freely. Any moved block can be left in place and not continue to get it if this will lead to the fall of the tower. The game has plenty of momentum: the turn ends when the next player touches the tower, or when 10 seconds have passed, whichever happens first.

Using the tower from this game in US schools, experiments are being conducted in physics classes.

The end of the game marks the fall of the tower, that is, the fall of any block other than the one that the player is currently trying to place on top of the tower. The loser is the one whose move caused the collapse of the tower. However, if only a few blocks have fallen, then the players can continue the game if they wish. Be sure the first time your tower will fall very quickly.

The rules seem simple, but it is not for nothing that the game has spread throughout the world over more than 30 years of its existence and has won thousands of fans. Because "Jenga" is a game of manual dexterity, ingenuity and a sense of balance. Children can also build a tower. This game is especially useful for them, since motor skills are involved, the ability to establish cause-and-effect relationships develops, perseverance and accuracy are instilled. You can also play in teams, which will help unite an unfamiliar company.

Experienced players have developed more than one system: which bars, in what sequence, to pull out in order to win. But the general pattern is the same: it is better to pull out the blocks along the entire height of the tower, without concentrating on one of the parts.

Despite her British citizenship, Leslie Scott was born in East Africa and speaks both English and Swahili. Therefore, she gave her game such a catchy, unusual name for the ear.

In addition to the classic version, players have come up with many more additional "chips" to diversify and complicate the game. Those who have reached enchanting heights in the construction of the tower write numbers on the side faces, take a dice and move only the bar whose number fell on the dice. Others, for the sake of fun, depict tasks on the verges (such as playing forfeits), for example, “Tell a joke”, “Depict a sad rabbit”. The player, moving any bar, is obliged to complete the task inscribed on it.

Of course, the producers, seeing such a hobby, did not bypass the game with various "replicas" and variations. So, there was "Jenga" with multi-colored blocks, a game with an increased number of blocks, a game in which the blocks are increased many times over (the tower reaches one and a half meters!), And, of course, application games for all kinds of mobile devices: there the blocks are pulled out by one finger movement.

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Here are the hero games of our today's review. Let's start playing by seniority in "Mikado" and "Jenga".

But closer to the point...

How to play jenga?

The meaning of the game

Our task is to build a tower from the blocks, and then carefully pull out one block at a time from the base and rearrange it up. The game continues until the tower collapses. The one who caused the tower to fall is punished. For example, let him build a tower for the next round. If your building blocks are of different suits (it happens, they can be different in texture or color), then the game can develop according to several scenarios.

Scenario #1

This is a light version of the game to "shoot" and get to know Jenga. We are building a tower of 16 floors, as shown in the figure above. Consider that the game has already begun, since building a high-rise building is like assembling a constructor. Then, in turn, we pull any block we like and put it on top of the tower. We continue until complete collapse.

Scenario #2

Events unfold as in Scenarios #2. This is where the cube comes into play. We built a tower, then we roll the die. What drawing will fall out, you will drag such a block. Each time the tower becomes more and more unstable, the hour is not even, and it will crumble like a house of cards.

Scenario #3

We complicate the game. Let's say we have 2 players. We distribute the bars between them. One player is only allowed to drag blocks with a panda and a giraffe, and the second one with a cheetah and a zebra. Blocks without a pattern remain spare. They can be pulled out by both players, but only in hopeless situations. This is where you have to think about it.)

Scenario #4 - Domino Effect

We line up the bars vertically in a row at a distance of several centimeters. Then, with one movement of the finger, we push the last bar, and the whole row unanimously falls one after another. This is a lot of fun for kids :)

Scenario #4 - Big construction site

Building incredible structures with jenga blocks is almost an art. Our customers are so addicted that they buy a second set of parts. Here, enjoy....



 And this building seems to be a light cobweb. Dun, and it will sprinkle, but no, it’s worth it ....

From Jengi, of course, it's hard to break away))) But the queue is already languishing Mikado, no less interesting game. So let's move on.

Japanese serenity with the Mikado


Mikado- an old Japanese game, somewhat similar to our spillikins. Does not tolerate fuss and sudden movements. You need to play thoughtfully, slowly, smoothly pulling the sticks out of the common pile. Such finger movements perfectly develop fine motor skills in people of any age.

How to play Mikado?

The essence of the game

Pour a handful of sticks freely on the table or on the floor. Then you try to pull out the stick without hitting the neighboring ones. If hit, the turn passes to another player. If the "operation" was successful, the move is yours. The whole point is that the sticks have different values, and the player who scores the most points wins.

Price table for sticks
Spirals ("Mikado") 1 *20 points 20 points
2 blue rings + 3 red rings (“Mandarin”) 5 *10 points 50 points
1 red ring + 2 blue rings 5 ​​*5 points 25 points
1 red ring + 1 blue ring + 1 yellow ring 15 *3 points 45 points
1 red ring + 1 blue ring 15 *2 points 30 points

If you pulled out the Mandarin or Mikado sticks, you can use them to pull out the rest.

Mikado game options

1. Right-handed-Lefty- complicate your game. If you're right-handed, try pulling out your chopsticks with your left hand, and if you're left-handed, with your right.

2. counting sticks- use Mikado sticks as counting material

3. Mikado in the ring- you will need a ring that tightly wraps around the sticks. It can be a ring from a pyramid, a not too tight hair band, etc. Fold the sticks in a tube, then turn them, as if squeezing out the laundry.

Place the sticks in the ring and place on a flat, smooth surface. Now this hut must be dismantled. Pull the sticks out of the structure one by one. Whoever destroys the hut, he lost.

The Mikado is so popular that a "garden" version of it has even been created for outdoor play. You need to play with giant sticks 90 cm long (!) Try to pull out such a stick)))

That's what they are, "thinking" skill games. Not only fingers become dexterous, but brain cells. Nice to play!
Olga Polovinkina

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Video review of the board game Tower (Tower) from Igroveda!

Reviews and comments (31 )

    Feedback | IGROKRAD | 23.02.2019

    Stealing the Jenga game by slightly changing the parameters of the bars ("significant design differences") and replacing the name with a native Russian is a worthy response to Obama from a thousand-year-old superpower.

    Feedback | tatiana, togliatti | 22.03.2017

    About cubes. In our game, there are also 4 cubes and there are numbers on the blocks. So, in order for all the bars to be involved, we agreed to arrange them in random order and pull out a bar not only with the number of the amount from the bones, but with any combination that fell out on the bones.

    Feedback | Anna, Orenburg | 07.02.2016

    There are 4 dice in the set, even if 6 drops out in each roll, 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, should it be?

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

    Feedback | Anna, Orenburg | 06.02.2016

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

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

    Feedback | Sergey, Orenburg | 29.11.2015

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

    Answer from the store Igroved: Sergey, hello. At the moment, only one version of the Jenga color game is presented in our assortment.

    Feedback | Anastasia, Moscow | 20.11.2015

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

    Answer from the store Igroved: Anastasia, hello! In our assortment there is a game Tower (with a rectangular section of bars) - beech, in which you need to build 3 bars 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

"Jenga" is an extremely popular, meditative and gambling game at the same time. In the process, the players act with bated breath, and the loss marks the roar of a collapsed structure.

Review

The board game "Jenga" (Jenga), also known as "The Tower", is quite simple.

It is necessary to build a tower from wooden blocks, and then pull out the sticks from the tower and put them on the top floor. The structure will become more and more unstable until it collapses from careless movement or a breath of wind.

In its basic principle, it is a bit like a game of spillikins (with miniature dishes) or Mikado (wooden skewers are used). The game takes an average of 5-10 minutes.

Who created

Jenga was invented by Tanzanian Englishwoman Leslie Scott in the early 1970s. Its ancestor was the game of blocks, which Leslie played as a child. The word "jenga" comes from the Swahili verb "build". The game is produced by one of the "daughters" of the company "Hasbro", replicas from the company "Igrotime" are popular in Russia.

From what age

You can play jenga from the moment when fine motor skills have developed enough. You can build a tower for the first time at the age of five, although it is hardly worth an adult to compete with an impatient kid.

What's in the box

In the package you will find:

54 pieces of wood, easy to retrieve. Their size is about 8 centimeters in length, length and width are related as 3:1. Bamboo is used in the original, birch is more often used in Russian replicas;

cardboard sleeve for the construction of a flat tower, it is also an instruction.

Rules

In Jenga, the rules are clear to both the preschooler and the grandmother. It is necessary to build a tower from the bars with the inscription "jenga", laying out three bricks in a row, on them - three bricks perpendicularly. There are 18 floors in total.

Next, you need to pull out one block at a time from the body and arrange it at the very top so that the skyscraper can stand. You can touch the tower, try on, touch the bricks that you are going to pull out, but only with one hand. The main thing is not to drop. Dropped - lost. After each move, you need to wait 10 seconds, and only then pass the move on.

Sometimes Jenga is played not using a 3 by 3 grid, but by 4 by 4 bars. Then, in the process, a marvelously intricate structure can turn out, the fall of which will be simply epoch-making.

There are more options on how to play the tower. For example, buy a set with numbers on the dice and take out not random blocks, but the one whose number fell out on the dice.

Game mechanics

In "jenga" players have to show miracles of dexterity, to demonstrate the accuracy of movements and fine motor skills. Knowledge of physics and the ability to see an object in volume, calculate the balance will also come in handy.

Tricks and secrets

The rules of the game describe only the general principle of action, but experienced players know that there are subtleties:

Don't be in a hurry. The main thing is accuracy, so try on as much as you see fit;

Try how firmly the bricks sit. Some can be pulled out easily, some not. If the block does not want to go, do not pull it, otherwise you will almost certainly bring everything down;

Try to build a tower not higher, but more stable. This will make the game last longer. Or, on the contrary, make a shaky crown, hoping that the opponent will not be able to repeat your trick;

If you push the central blocks, and not the side ones, the chance of collapse is reduced.

The game is unpredictable because a millimeter error can cost you a win. The original Jenga even keeps the exact dimensions of the wooden blocks a secret. Allegedly, each brick is slightly different from the other, so that there is no exact balance and it is impossible to choose a uniquely winning strategy. However, the banal error of production gives the same effect.

Most stressful moment

The most interesting thing begins when the tower is already quite skewed, and every movement can bring it down. Will it come from the removed bar, which, as it turned out, held everything on itself. Or the building will collapse when the player has already pulled out the brick, put it on the roof and breathed a sigh of relief.

How to diversify the gameplay

When you get bored with the basic rules, bring in fresh ideas. It will be more fun and more difficult if:

  • Write numbers on the ends of the pieces of wood, throw the dice and pull strictly dropped out;
  • Write tasks on pieces of paper and take them before each move. For example, do everything with your left hand or sing a song in the process;
  • Tasks or questions can be applied directly to the bars;
  • Do not build on, but dismantle the tower from below until there are so many holes in it that it collapses.

How to increase interest

Just like that, shifting wooden blocks quickly becomes boring. The way out is to come up with a prize. For example, desire. Some kind of large-scale - like the obligation to wash all the dishes after the party. Participants will fight with passion to the last brick!

How else to use

With young children, you can use Jenga as a construction set and build turret houses together, and then, optionally, take out the bricks as usual. Kids will be happy to take up new building material (more than environmentally friendly).

Who lost

Ay-ya-ya-yay, the falling tower has fallen! Who is guilty? Who wasn't careful enough? In whose turn did a fly fly past, and from the fluctuations of the air a catastrophe happened? This is where he lost.

Additional materials

Playing Jenga is more than just stacking blocks on top of each other. This is an exciting activity with a strong competitive moment. In addition, it can always be varied.

Popularity Secret

There are several secrets of the popularity of "Jenga":

  • Very simple and clear rules, anyone can play it;
  • It does not require a special place, except for a flat hard surface - for example, the floor;
  • Despite the transience of each party, it drags on for hours;
  • Consists of environmental materials, the details are pleasant to the touch;
  • You can upgrade the set instead of buying a new one;
  • The best players are both the smartest and the luckiest.

The Benefits of Playing The Tower Regularly

The tower under construction for both adults and children is a great shared activity. And for the party too.

Parsing a structure consisting of blocks trains concentration and fine motor skills well. The player has to show everything that he is capable of.

The construction of the turret contributes to the development of spatial thinking. We are learning to imagine what exactly we get if we take out a part from one position and move it to another.

Other advantages

Jenga is a very fun game. It is simply impossible to break away - well, another five minutes, well, another game.

Jenga can be played by everyone from young to old. Which makes the desire to build a tower of wooden blocks an all-round family entertainment.

The number of participants is not limited - although if there are many of them, it is not a fact that the move will reach everyone. But the one who gets the chance will certainly try to concentrate with the top piece in his hands and not succumb to the “encouraging” exclamations around like “Ruin ​​it!”.

The set is durable. Even if you have already played dozens of games, the appearance of the wooden parts will not change at all, they will not be wrinkled or rubbed like cards.

The height of all the bars is slightly different. This is not a bug - this is a feature to make the game even more unpredictable and interesting.

There is a whole line of games for fans. For example, the one called "Django chairs".

The leaning tower, or as this game is also called Jenga, is a popular and interesting board game for the company. It doesn't look like the usual games. There are no chips and cards in it, but there are bars made of natural unpainted wood (birch).

From the bars, fold an even tower using a special corner included in the game kit. There should be three bars in each row, each subsequent row is folded in the direction transverse to the previous one. You will get 18 such rows! Turn over the corner and remove it. On the table will be a tall, eighteen-story impregnable tower. Players can now attack.

There can be as many participants in the battle as there are friends in your company. Each player chooses to attack any level and pulls out one of the bars with one hand! This bar, which is in the hands of the player, is placed on the new, upper, floor of the structure. All actions are performed by the participant so that the tower of bars does not collapse! The culprit of the disaster is considered the loser! It can be subject to sanctions that the players consider fair, with this rule the game will be more intense and longer. If you play without it, the game will be more dynamic. Choose the option that suits you. And if dexterous, attentive and smart participants have gathered in your company, the height of your tower can grow by 2 times!

In the end, if you get tired of playing, the blocks can be used as a set of cubes for a small builder, as they do not contain varnishes, dyes and stains, but are made of environmentally friendly Vyatka birch.

Equipment:

  • 54 bars;
  • rules of the game.

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