Read Time:1 Minute, 18 Second
Players: Any number (ages 8 and up)
Playing Time: It all depends on how steady you are (but give yourself about 30 minutes)
Jenga is the perfect game for brain surgeons –- but jittery caffeine addicts should probably play something a little less nerve-wracking.
Before you can begin, you have to stack a bunch of rectangular blocks to make a tower. Then you set the tower up, and players take turns removing blocks and replacing them on the top of the stack -– until one of the players makes the tower collapse, thus sending little wooden blocks flying in all directions. The winner is the last player to successfully remove a block (thus, the strategy is to place yourself right in front of the player who’s the most on edge).
At first, Jenga is just good fun. It’s easy. But after a few turns, it starts to make you nervous. Then it makes you neurotic. You’ll be afraid to move. And you’ll stop breathing altogether. In the end, either someone knocks the tower over or everyone passes out from lack of oxygen (which will then cause the tower to collapse, but, since everyone is passed out, no one will know who won).
Jenga drives me crazy. Other members of my family, however, love it. Apparently, they’re not quite as anxious as I am. So if you’re a steady, relaxed person, buy this game. Then invite your stressed out, caffeine-addicted friends over to play -– you’ll never lose.
(Ed. Note — See also: Tumbling Tower)
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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