![]() ![]() In Yorkshire they have a farm, they've got a dairy, but they also have a woodworking shop. It's a sheltered community for adults with learning disabilities and other special needs - it's a movement all around the world. The next stage was introduced by a group of people in Yorkshire at a place called Camphill. So these planks of wood would go through that template, and then be chopped up into the pieces. He came up with a very clever suggestion, which was to send the planks of wood through a sanding template that was not in itself 100% even. I spoke to a carpenter I knew and asked him how would you do this. How did you scale up production to maintain randomness? You start with 18 rows and it just worked - I don't think there was anything more scientific. The decision to go for 54 blocks was trial and error. So you can start with a fairly stable tower. That meant you couldn't assemble them three by three and make a stable tower to start with - there were gaps between each.īut I figured out that if you made them just slightly shorter you can square it up. The original ones were slightly longer than Jenga blocks are now. Then there was the question of how many actual blocks there should be, plus their size. I had to figure out how to mass market some of these flaws. So that sort of randomness was a factor of the original, handmade wooden blocks. ![]() If they're all identical it just sits there. Because without that, the game just really doesn't work. Not many people realise this but each one of the blocks in the game are slightly randomly different from each other. But I was just so convinced this was going to work. I knew nothing about the toy industry and nothing about retail business. So in 1982, I decided I was going to take this game to market. People and children have obviously been piling up blocks of wood for years, but actually to turn that into a game, it just didn't exist. But it took a long time for the penny to drop that this didn't exist already as a game. I played a lot with friends here in Oxford. They weren't exactly like the Jenga blocks are now but the principle of the game was there. I moved to Oxford a few years later and had a set of these blocks and started to play it as a game. Science Blog caught up with Leslie Scott, to find out how the game evolved and why its simple concept keeps people coming back for more.Īs a game, it evolved amongst my family when we were living in Ghana in the mid-70s. Sold in 117 countries across the world and loved by all ages, as a family- and pub-favourite, Jenga is now officially a classic. I sanded the insides of the holes with my oscillating spindle sander and rounded the edges of the holes over with a 1/4 inch rounder bit in my router.This month Senior Associate of Oxford’s Pembroke College, Leslie Scott, was honoured by her wildly popular invention Jenga being inducted in the US’s National Toy Hall of Fame. Once the holes are drilled I cut along the outside lines of the rectangle with my jig saw and connected the two holes to make one large handle hole in each of the boards. Using a 2 inch forstner bit I drilled 2 holes in each board on the 2 center points I marked on the rectangle that were 1 inch in from the end. These points will act as center marks for the holes that will be drilled ![]() I marked a center line horizontally across the rectangle and marked a point 1 inch in from each side. From the center I measured 3 inches in each direction, marked 2 lines, measured down 4 inches from the top and marked a line across the board, measured 2 inches down from the top and marked another line across.įor the handles I first laid out a rectangle that was centered on each of the side boards 6 inches wide, 2 inches tall, and 2 inches down from the top of the board. For the layout of the handles I first found the center point of both the left and right side boards. ![]()
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