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

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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 | 02/06/2016

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. IN this moment in our assortment there is only one version of the color game Jenga.

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

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

Jenga is a standard of its kind - exciting game With simple rules. Play alone, two, four - it's easy! 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 lay out 3 bars on a table or other flat surface, on them there are 3 more bars perpendicular to the first row and so on until we lay out all 45 bars. Jenga from 15 levels is ready!

The game has begun! Players take turns pulling out one block at a time and placing it on top of the tower. You can not 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 fell out on the dice.

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

Equipment:

• 45 wooden bars;
• 2 dice.

Board Game Jenga Boom (Tower)

Hello dear friends! Today I want to tell you about an extremely exciting and at the same time very simple game with wooden blocks.

It is called "Jenga" and has many varieties. The popularity of this board game all over the world is due not only to the simple rules of the game, but also to many other benefits.

But more on that below.

My review of Jenga board game

What is "Jenga"?

"Jenga" is board game for skill and ingenuity. The standard set consists of 54 wooden blocks, not varnished and not painted in any colors. Also included with each playset is a sleeve for building a tower and a booklet describing the rules of the game and a variety of ways to complicate or simplify the gameplay. We had the 45 piece version, but it was just as fun to play!

Rules of the game "Jenga"

At the beginning of the game, the participants build a tower from all the bars of the set. This can be done independently or with the help of a special sleeve, which allows you to make the structure as even and stable as possible. There are three bars on one level of the tower, and the details of the next floor should lie perpendicular to the previous ones (crosswise)

After the tower is ready, the players take turns taking out the bars from any part of it and moving them up. The main requirement is that when the part is removed and installed to the very top, the building does not collapse. Also, in most variants of Jenga, it is mandatory to remove the bars with one hand, no matter if it is right or left. The goal of the game is to make the tower as tall as possible.

The participant whose actions caused the tower to collapse is considered the loser. The payout is calculated based on the number of successful moves each player has: whoever has the most safely moved bars wins.

Why is Jenga so popular and why do we like it?

Despite the simplest, if not primitive, rules of the game, Jenga can drag on for several hours. Reading the description, it seems that it is easy to play it, but as soon as you sit down at the table, your opinion changes dramatically.

Firstly, it is not so easy to choose the right block, the removal of which will not damage the tower, especially after other participants have already made more than one move.

Secondly, it is very difficult to carefully pull the part out of the building - one wrong move, and the tower collapsed down.

Playing with wooden blocks develops such qualities and skills as:

• fine motor skills (which is why it is useful to play Jenga with preschool children);
• dexterity. You train this quality, trying to pull the bar out of the structure as carefully as possible;
• attentiveness;
• spatial thinking;
• ingenuity and logic. These skills are needed in order to correctly calculate which block can be removed from the tower without the threat of its collapse.

I would also note the following advantages of this board game:

• fascination. It is very difficult to tear yourself away from an unfinished game. And even after the tower collapsed because of some player, you want to immediately build it again and resume the game;
• versatility for all ages. This game will be interesting for both children, starting from five or six years old, and adults up to retirement age;
• no restrictions on the number of people. If most other board games can be played by no more than 6-8 participants, then in Jenga the number of players can exceed this number. Moreover, the more players take part, the more interesting the process becomes;
• durability. Wooden bars do not break, do not crumple and do not wear out, and therefore one set of the game can serve the family for many years;
• compact package sizes. Thanks to this, "Jenga" can be taken with you on trips or on a visit.

True, you can’t play it on the road, because for stability wooden tower a fixed surface is required, such as a table or floor.

Today, the rights to publish the game belong to various global companies, including Russian manufacturers. This will allow you to choose the right option for the price and completeness for your family.

Who created Jenga?

Do you know how this fascinating board game was born, and who became its creator? Even before 1983, no one knew about such a simple but ingenious game. But everything changed, thanks to a woman from Britain named Lesley Scott.

As a board game designer during those years, Leslie decided to take a break from the complex role-playing and turn-based board games that were so popular in America and Britain for a while. Wanting to create something as simple as possible, but at the same time very exciting, she remembered her childhood. Then her whole family enjoyed playing with simple wooden cubes, building towers and other buildings out of them. Leslie remembered how much she enjoyed this activity, and decided that this process could be varied by extracting parts from the structure.

Initially, it was cubes that were considered as parts for Jenga. But for variety and greater variability of the gameplay, it was decided to use rectangular blocks. Having released her creation on the market, Leslie did not even expect that it would be so popular. In the first year, the entire circulation of the board game was sold out, and then companies wishing to acquire the rights to publish the game reached out to its creator. Today, it still continues to sell out in thousands of copies, and already a new generation of preschoolers is developing fine motor skills for such an exciting action as building a tower.

How to diversify the gameplay in Jenga

Despite all its fascination, over time, the standard version of the Jenga game can become a little boring for a friendly company. In this case, you can diversify your pastime by slightly changing or supplementing the rules. For example:

• Playing "Jenga" with phantoms. Write different tasks on pieces of paper, for example, “Close your eyes” or “Tell a rhyme.” The player who has to get the block from the tower draws a phantom, and during his turn he completes the task.
• Game to the last bar. Here, players will not put the bars taken out of the tower on the upper level of the structure, but will simply pull the parts out of it and stack them next to them. Whoever managed to take out the most bars before the building collapsed completely, he won;
• "Jenga" with numbers. Side faces bars can be marked with numbers from the first to the tenth or from the first to the twelfth. Now it is enough to take the dice and throw them before your turn. What number fell out, under this number we remove the part from the tower. There are no available bars with the desired number? It's sad, but you have to skip the move.
• You can also discuss additional options for complication in the company, for example, each move alternates the right and left hand for extracting bars, and other things that your imagination tells you.

As for the quality of this game, there are no complaints about the manufacturer. The bars are dense, smooth, it is pleasant to hold them in hands. Plus, they are very well polished, which means there is no risk of getting a splinter in the finger while playing.

Jenga is a fun, interesting and exciting game of dexterity, attentiveness and ingenuity. It will allow you to spend time pleasantly and profitably with your family, with colleagues or with a group of friends who appreciate such entertainment.

You can buy the board game Jenga by clicking the button below in an excellent store without cheating and overpayments. On the box, you can engrave, write any name, for example, if the game is purchased as a gift.

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

Having created buildings rising up, touching the clouds with their domes, inspired homo sapiens climbs onto the roof and victoriously looks at the surroundings. Some representatives of the human race use these useless structures for experiments, dropping them on the heads of passing comrades cannonballs and deriving wise formulas. Unfortunately for architects, towers tend to fall, but they do so gracefully and slowly to the admiring glances of those around them. In a word, towers have become an integral part of our lives, 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 blocks and build a tower out of them. From time immemorial, children have been building houses from cubes, pebbles and blocks, but the practical Leslie Scott decided to patent this method construction, added simple rules to it 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 over 30 years.

And the bars in my box turned out to be cool - polished, smelling of real wood, without knots and potholes. 54 pieces, one to one. 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 require you to perform some action. Since the version is for children, then ... and adults can quite cope with the tasks. "Depict 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 ...

Raise the fires!

Cool woodpile ... For the game, all the dice are mixed and set in tiers crosswise 3x3 bars. 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 lying flat. 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 (holding the structure is prohibited). It is necessary to carry out this maneuver very carefully, since gradually the building turns into a termite mound corroded by moves.

This cannot go on forever, the tower leans dangerously, competing with its famous Italian counterpart, and falls with a roar under the joyful cries of others. Actually, whoever is the "hero of the occasion" collects a mountain of bars 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, bring your friends a lot of positive emotions.

It remains to be mentioned that the one who pulls out the bar with the “magic prescription” is obliged to fulfill it. If you refuse - shame and disgrace to you forever and ever ...

Why are you standing, swinging, Jenga from China ...

As a child, I great benefit spent part of the summer with his grandmother, gaining invaluable life experience: climbing the neighbor's orchards for apples, overeating someone's raspberries, running from the evil collective farm watchman and jumping on the roofs of garages (now this is called the fashionable word parkour). And my friends and I had a game called “The Hut” (I don’t know what it is called in the original). 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, he 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 in 3-4 years old in a similar way (there were few cubes, so I made the base, and then rearranged the blocks from the bottom up), then I can rightly say that I also have a similar "family game passed down from generation to generation"...

But seriously, the game is excellent, while simple to the point of absurdity: a handful of bars, elementary rules and fun 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 construction, you involuntarily question the fundamental laws of physics.

When buying, pay attention to the quality of the workmanship of the bars - they must be perfectly polished, since the slightest knot will “pull” the entire building with it. In my copy, there is nothing to complain about - at " Boring Games» the production of wooden parts is put on high level... I was pleasantly surprised by the "bonus" in the form of tasks burned on the blocks - it's definitely more fun to play. People of royal blood, of course, can ignore the inscriptions and simply rearrange the bars meaningfully - but they are not supposed to have fun by status ...

The game is provided for review by the online store " ABC-Vedia", a wide range of which will allow you to choose an interesting model for both a child and an adult.

This game is very simple and at the same time can bring many pleasant minutes to both children and their parents. The number of players is practically unlimited: you can train alone and hold tournaments for 2, 3 and 10 people! First you need to buy a special kit from 54 wooden blocks.

Rules of the game "Jenga"

First, a tower is built from a set of blocks on a table or on the floor. To do this, the blocks are stacked three in a row and the resulting layers are stacked on top of each other one across the other. It turns out a tower of 18 levels. As a rule, a cardboard guide is included in the kit, which will allow you to level the tower for its exceptional flatness and verticality.

As soon as the tower is built and the order of the players' turn is determined, you can proceed!

Each player on his turn tries to draw any block that he thinks is free. This must be done using only one hand. You cannot work with both hands at the same time, but you can use your hands in turn if it is convenient. After the bar is released from the tower, it is placed on top of it in such a way as to continue building according to the rules: 3 bars per layer, each next layer across the previous one. You can not take the bars from the unfinished top layer and the next layer below it.

As soon as the block is placed, the move passes in turn to the next player and then around the circle. The player on whom the tower collapsed with a roar is considered the loser, and the game begins from the beginning. You can organize a knockout game.

Tricks:

• First of all, you need to look for free bars. They can be either on the edge, and then they can be “picked out” from the side, or in the center, then they must be pushed out with a finger from one side and then pulled out from the other;
• It is very important to pay attention to the slope of the tower: sometimes, after a new block is placed on one side of the tower, on the other side it becomes possible to pull out the block that was previously clamped;
• You can adjust the "traps" for the following players: taking into account the slope of the tower, aggravate it by placing your block on the same side. But the main thing here is not to overdo it!
• Although both hands cannot be used, several fingers of one hand can be used, for example, to grab the block with the thumb and forefinger, and with the middle one gently rest against the tower so that it does not fall. Well, and use your hands in turn.

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