![]() and Canada, and then in October that year, Scott assigned the worldwide rights in Jenga to Grebler, which he in turn assigned to Pokonobe Associates. In April 1985, Grebler acquired from Scott the exclusive rights to Jenga for the U.S. In 1984, Robert Grebler, an entrepreneur from California who was the brother of a close friend of Scott, contacted her and expressed interest in importing and distributing Jenga in Canada. The V&A Museum of Childhood has exhibited one of the original sets of Jenga since 1982. ![]() The blocks of the first sets of Jenga were manufactured for Scott by the Camphill Village Trust in Botton, Yorkshire. Scott launched the game she named and trademarked as 'Jenga' at the London Toy Fair in January 1983 and sold it through her own company, Leslie Scott Associates. Though a British national, Scott was born in East Africa, where she was raised speaking English and Swahili, before moving to live in Ghana, West Africa. Jenga was created by Leslie Scott, the co-founder of Oxford Games Ltd, based on a game that evolved within her family in the early 1970s using children's wood building blocks the family purchased from a sawmill in Takoradi, Ghana. Thus, for a standard game involving 54 blocks (18 levels), there are 98 total moves possible. If the number of levels is expressed as "X", the number of moves possible can be expressed as 6 × (X−2) + 2. ![]() The number of moves possible in any game of Jenga is dependent on the number of levels the game begins with. The winner is the last person to successfully remove and place a block. The game ends when the tower falls in even a minor way-in other words, any piece falls from the tower, other than the piece being knocked out to move to the top. The turn ends when the next person to move touches the tower or after ten seconds, whichever occurs first. ![]() Any block that is moved out of place must be returned to its original location before removing another block. Blocks may be bumped to find a loose block that will not disturb the rest of the tower. Only one hand should be used at a time when taking blocks from the tower. Moving in Jenga consists of taking one and only one block from any level (except the one below the incomplete top level) of the tower, and placing it on the topmost level to complete it. Once the tower is built, the person who built the tower gets the first move. To set up the game, the included loading tray is used to stack the initial tower which has 18 levels of three blocks placed adjacent to each other along their long side and perpendicular to the previous level (so, for example, if the blocks in the first level lie lengthwise north-south, the second level blocks will lie east-west). Each block is three times as long as it is wide, and one fifth as thick as it is long 1.5×2.5×7.5 cm (0.59×0.98×3.0 in). ![]()
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