Talk:Jenga

message: Yeah, right. I wonder how long a Jenga game can last when the players are drunk. Oh wait... maybe they use it as a test for drunkness. Definitely needs citation. 165.123.140.215 01:37, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can confirm this - virtually every bar in Thailand had a Jenga set and a Connect Four set, and my favourite gave out a free drink if you beat the barman three times in a row.  Can't cite it, alas, so maybe should be removed. Tyrhinis 10:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  yes I too have witnessed the Jenga sets in Thailands bars.. I'm going to have a look through some guide sites now, maybe it'll have a mention. If we can find something to cite it's too interesting not to include in the article.. Elmo 11:59, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is quite some nonsense. It's true, in the tourist areas there are many bars with Jenga but move away from the tourist tracks and you won't see any. From my experience mostly backpacker tourists like to play the game. But it has not much to do with Thai people and nothing at all with Thai culture. --125.26.251.49 (talk) 08:10, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Jenga is popular in the beer bars of Thailand

message: There's a Jenga userbox now, for those interested.

--Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 23:11, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jenga userbox 

message: There is some degree of chance between skilled players, although slight. If two skilled players had a game they would reach a point where one of them will probably knock over the tower, after all the "good" moves have been taken and there are only "bad" moves left. So there is a set number of turns until there are only "bad" moves left. And seeing as it is only a two player game with one move per player, it stands to reason that your chances of being left with only "bad" moves is directly related to which of the two players sets up the game, or takes the first move and determines which moves will be played who and when 202.191.106.82 19:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chance

message: I have 2 queries regarding what is and is NOT allowed.
1) some people I know state that you are not allowed to stabilise the tower (with one hand) during your go (in order to make it less likely to collapse). Is that stated explicitly anywhere? Is there any reason it would not be- it leads to longer and better games?
2) are you allowed to place the piece your remove haphazarly anywhere on the top of the tower? Or must you place it more-or-less precisely square with the row below, or even only on one of the end slots?
I think these issues arise often during Jenga games (played by cometitive people) and therefore would be valuable insights in this article.
Boldymumbles 20:32, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I can tell people do put them in rows but there is no specific rule agents putting them on the top on a sloppy manner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jooe15 (talk • contribs) 10:09, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Stabilisation permitted, placing of the block?

message: From what i have heard, It a rows is set up in a X0X  —- X being a block it is possible to take out a block, and the row above is also the same (different angle). It is possible to take out one of the blocks without breaking any rules. When you take out the piece on the outer edge,  you adjust to fit the hole in the row above, by applying pressure to the bottom of the piece you are temporarily holding up the top of the tower, but you are only holding it up with the pressure you apply to the given piece. Then you push the piece toward the opposing edge, through the hole above the piece that was jointly holding the tower with the original piece. When you take out the piece from the other edge you have to take it out from an angle pushing down as to push the piece on the same row as the original piece toward the center.﻿ This is all legal, though it takes EXTREME skill.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jooe15 (talk • contribs) 10:09, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Taking out a block from a row with a block on both sides, but not in the middle. 

message: Hasbro's 'history of Jenga' (http://www.hasbro.com/default.cfm?page=ci_history_jenga) makes no mention of the previous incarnations of the same game by Whale Toys (as "Piza") and by Games Workshop (as "TOWERBLOX").
"JENGA celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2002," that page says, presumably relating to the "Hasbro Jenga," and placing its 'birth' in 1987.
I recall Games Workshop producing much the same game in 1982, except with 39 bricks (13 layers) instead of Jenga's 54. Here's a photo of a copy of the rules from GW's 'TOWER BLOX Pre-Production Set:'  (I took this photo myself, but don't know whether I can upload it to Wikipedia - I think not as GW will have copyright on the original document). Sadly there's no date on this document, but I'm fairly sure that it would have been 1981, or perhaps 1982.
When published by GW as 'TOWERBLOX,' this game didn't sell particularly well. Although I don't know for sure what happened next, I believe that the rights were sold on to Whale Toys, who produced it for a time as "PIZA," after which it then reappeared as the now well-known "Jenga." --Pendant 20:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Jenga 

message: Not sure if there are differently dimensioned versions but all the versions I've seen (and the ones pictured in the article) clearly show that the blocks are almost exactly half as high as they are wide. Article states "slightly smaller in height than in width"... Anyone care to change it?211.27.113.17 (talk) 03:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual Dimensions 

message: There's a paragraph about a game called "ta-ka-radi":
:There have been numerous games similar to Jenga throughout gaming history. Ta-ka-radi is a game that was created in the 1970's by L.L. Bean with a similar premise as Jenga, having to remove blocks and place them on the top of a tower. Ta-ka-radi is slightly different than Jenga in that the tower is built with gaps between each block, unlike Jenga in which each block is touching. Also, the addition of "Jungle Rules" brings a different level of challenge to players. When "Jungle Rules" are in effect, players are able to distract the player who is up by any means necessary, other than physical contact. Common "Jungle Rules" methods to distract a player include yelling, "Here come the cops!" or, "Your chair is on fire!". Because of these rules, many skilled players consider Ta-ka-radi a much more difficult challenge than Jenga. Ta-ka-radi is very common in the Northern Lake George area, specifically Hague, New York, where many skilled players seek a challenge that most everyday games cannot offer them.
But, in this book jenga's creator says:
:In 1974, just before the 18-year-old was about to graduate from high school, her parents brought home a set of children’s building bricks they had purchased from a wood craftsman in the nearby city of Takoradi. Wood was plentiful and inexpensive there and the bricks, a simple gift meant for Scott’s little brother, changed her life.
:“I don’t remember when we first started playing with the bricks as a game,” she says. “The bricks were slimmer back then and we stacked them three across, spaced apart from each other.” The rules were fairly basic at first. Everyone simply took turns removing bricks from somewhere in the middle of the tower until a player made it collapse. The Scott family named their game Takoradi Bricks after the city in which it was made. “My family had many more sets made in Takoradi over the years to give to friends,” Scott said. “I even took a set with me to England.”
Isn't suspicious, the name similarity, between Ta-ka-radi and Takoradi?
There are even many sources naming Takoradi town as Takaradi...
Does anyone know any better?
--88.2.24.36 (talk) 12:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ta-ka-radi???? 

message: I think that the picture of the tower made of vertically positioned Jenga blocks is misleading, only marginally interesting, and enitrely irrelevant to the article. It needs to be removed imho.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.133.129.157 (talk) 22:15, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vetical blocks tower picture 

message: Was this description taken from the side of the box, an advert or other pro-Jenga propaganda? It reads like marketing guff.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.92.129.41 (talk) 11:50, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  A "game of physical and mental skill"? 

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message: I've always assumed that the term "jenga" is derived from the Spanish profanity chinga, a not-uncommon exclamation when the tower falls. Any basis?Weeb Dingle (talk) 07:15, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the name 

message: The opening of this item comes directly from a commercial source: https://www.jengagiant.com/. My understanding is that that's an absolute no-no for Wikipedia entries.
Someone with more Wikipedia knowledge than I have should insert the appropriate nasty message and/or simply remove the text. I've got no idea how to fix this and the game is obviously popular. 
So I am noting it but leaving it alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarkiwi25 (talk • contribs) 00:10, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't find what you're talking about, but they would have copied it from us, not the other way around. I have had this article on my watchlist for many years and the opening has been very stable during that time. Graham87 06:53, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening text for this page is problematic 

message: This article's lede defines Jenga as a brand name game (registered trademark), but the infobox specifically declines italicizing the title without hidden text for editors. For comparison, Monopoly (game) is italicized, while Tic-tac-toe is not. Should the name and article title be italicized, and if not, should this be made clearer in the lede? See similar proposal at Talk:Uno (card game)#Brand name. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 01:37, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been a year. It is maybe safe to do so by now. DeeDeeEn (talk) 09:51, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brand name 

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