Q. Some players use the “tap method” to move the blocks out of place while players like the “slow slide and pull” trick. Which do you suggest?
A. I use both techniques, depending on the circumstances. I also resort to the ’squeeze and shift’ move when things get desperate. If the central block has been removed from a layer, it is possible to squeeze the remaining two outer blocks together, thus shifting the tower so that the layers above are now balancing on just one of the blocks, leaving one block free to remove. (Hard to explain, easier to demonstrate)
Extract from an email Q & A exchange with Chris Illuminati (I never did get around to asking him if this is his real name or just a nom de keyboard?) about Jenga strategy, which gave rise to an article in phillyburbs.com (click for full article, and more Jenga tips)
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‘But of the myriad games I have played over the years, Real Tennis is undoubtedly the one to have exercised the greatest influence over my life. I met my husband through Real Tennis, and in many respects, it was because of the game of Real Tennis that I became a professional designer of games.’ About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game that Became a Household Name.’
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‘For three years in Oxford, a city world famous for its ancient university, its beautiful buildings, its “dreaming spires,” Intel UK occupied a few uninspiring little offices about the Potato Marketing Board in a drab three-story sixties building situated on Between Towns Road in Cowley.’ About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game that Became a Household Name
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‘ Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, East Africa, 1955. Are when and where I was born relevant to this story of the origin of Jenga or its success as a game, or even to my own success as a games designer? Well, maybe. Certainly, many people argue that both nature and nurture significantly influence the talents you have and the choices you make throughout life. So, perhaps a brief summary of my background and family might shed some light on how and why Jenga came about in the first place.’ About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game that became a Household Name (7)
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The Advance Reader’s Copy editions of the book ‘About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game that became a Household Name‘ are now being sent out to the book trade by the publishers Greenleaf Book Group Press, and to the media by the publicists PlannedTVarts.com
Seeing this, my first book, set and bound (albeit as an uncorrected paperback, galley proof ) is almost as exciting -for me -as seeing Jenga, my first game, packed and ready for its launch at the London Toy Fair in 1983.
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