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A Canadian teen broke two of his own Guinness World Records for stacking Jenga blocks and became the basis for a Hallmark Christmas movie. Auldin Maxwell, 15, of British Columbia stacked a ...
Jenga worked from the outset because it's a very simple idea. What people liked about it was there were only two rules: that you use only one hand, and that you put the bricks on top.
Leslie Scott created the game 30 years ago (the name comes from the Swahili for "to build"). Here she explains how to get the upper hand. Don't rush yourself. "With Jenga, you lose it rather than ...
The Jenga activity was innovative and new, but also immersive and snappy – which is helpful in this digital age of dwindling attention spans. As the activity was student-led, we learned more about how ...
Teaching a robot how to play Jenga is a lot more difficult than it sounds. Rather than relying on visual information alone, players have to poke, tap, and feel individual wooden blocks to choose ...
A team of MIT engineers developed a system that robots can use to play Jenga. This classic game is pretty simple -- players must remove individual blocks from a stacked tower without knocking the ...
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a robot that can play Jenga, a game that involves removing one block at a time from a stack of 54.
You probably remember the rules of Jenga: You tap at a wooden block in the tower, try to remove it, and then hopefully place the piece back on top of the increasingly unstable creation.