Each block removed is then balanced on top of the tower, creating a progressively taller but less stable structure. Jenga really is as simple to play as it sounds: during the game, players take turns removing one block at a time from a tower constructed of 54 blocks. This ‘special magic’ proved invaluable as Jenga’s prowess reached first a small circle of friends, and then a circle of companies, and finally encircled the world with a pair of wooden arms! But due to that special Jenga magic that seems to draw people near, she succeeded. While trying to get the game to market, Leslie Scott suffered through bad business relationships, patent and branding troubles, insufficient funds and lack of a platform for her game for years. The game is well known amongst the Asanti people of Ghana, where it called, “Sidan”, which means, “To build the House”. The Takarati wood mill is still operational today.
We played this game within the family, and with friends, for several years before I decided to modify it, name it, manufacture it and take it to market in 1982.”Īpparently the children’s wooden building blocks that Leslie and her family used throughout her childhood were bought locally in a town known as Takarati (Takoradi) in Ghana during the early 70’s. “Jenga was based on a game that my family devised in the mid-1970s using my then five-year-old brother’s wooden building blocks. Jenga, a Swahili word meaning “ to build“, is such a simple game to understand, but also a complex and somewhat stressful game to master.įollowing the launch of her book ‘ About Jenga‘ which chronicles the amazing story behind the business and the entrepreneur who created it, Leslie Scott revealed the origins of Jenga in an interview:
It was introduced to the world by the enterprising Leslie Scott, a British woman born in East Africa who moved to Ghana, West Africa as a child. In terms of home ‘board games’, Jenga is second in popularity world-wide only to Monopoly. … OK, we don’t judge here on the Sobur blog (maybe just a bit… Jenga is a classic!) so here’s a little history lesson for you:
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