Jenga Jenga Jenga is a game of physical skill created by Leslie Scott, and currently marketed by Hasbro. Players take turns removing one block at a time from a tower constructed of 54 blocks. Each block removed is then placed on top of the tower, creating a progressively taller and more unstable structure. The name "jenga" is derived from "kujenga", a Swahili word which means "to build". Jenga is played with 54 wooden blocks. Each block is three times longer than its width, and one fifth as thick as its length . Blocks have small, random variations from these dimensions so
Anchor Stone Blocks originated with the wooden building blocks which were designed by Friedrich Fröbel, the creator of the "Kindergarten" system of education. He had observed how children enjoyed playing with geometrically shaped blocks. The first Anchor Stone was produced when Otto Lilienthal and his brother Gustav decided that make a model of a stone building, using miniature blocks of stone. To this end, they started production of a limited number of blocks, made of a mixture of quartz sand, chalk, and linseed oil. Unfortunately, the Lilienthals, though brilliant inventors, had limited commercial success. The stone blocks saw little popularity until 1880, when