Let’s Play
TOPPLING TOWER
How To Play
Setup
Tumble Tower Set: Consists of 51 wooden blocks.
Each block is three times as long as it is wide.
Gameplay
Objective: Dismantle and rebuild the tumble tower without causing it to topple.
Players: Any number can play, solo play is also an option.
Tower Construction: Build a 17-story tumble tower.
Stack blocks in threes.
Alternate the direction of blocks on each level.
Starting the Game: The player who built the tower goes first.
Jenga Move: A move involves taking one block from any level and placing it on the incomplete top level.
Use only one hand.
Do not touch the tower with the other hand.
Do not move blocks from the level below the top level.
Searching for Blocks: Tapping or knocking blocks is allowed to find a loose one.
Turn End: Turn ends when the next person touches the tower or after 10 seconds.
Game End: Game ends if the tower falls or moves, even if only one or two blocks fall.
The player causing the fall is the loser.
Special Cases: If only one or two blocks fall, players can agree to put them back.
Cooperative aspect encourages continuing play.
Scoring
Record-Breaking: Aim to build the tallest tower.
The record is a forty-level tumble tower made with Jenga blocks.
History
Undoubtedly, people have been stacking blocks of wood on top of each other since humans began turning trees into blocks. No one knows exactly when people started gamifying this stacking, but undoubtedly, Jenga became the preeminent block-stacking game as people tested their nerves while removing and restacking block after block. Leslie Scott wrote the original rules for Jenga, trademarking the name inspired by the Swahili word Kujenga, which translates to “To Build,” in England in the 1980s. The game Jenga is now manufactured by Hasbro.
The game's popularity in the living room inspired people to take it outside and make it bigger. Now, these large stacks of wood, going by the names of Tumbling Timbers, Tippy Tower, Giant Jenga, and many more, can be found in backyards, weddings, and breweries, with people of all ages surrounding them as onlookers wait for the classic sound of the falling blocks bouncing off each other as the tower scatters across the ground.
