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Leslie Scott

Jenga

  • You know JENGA!, right? It's the second best selling game in the world and it was invented by a kid! It is a game played with stackable wooden blocks.

  • Leslie, a British Citizen, came up with the idea at age 18 while living in Africa. Her parents brought home some wooden blocks and Leslie started stacking them three across and built upward. The idea of turning it into a game came to her and an international success was born.

  • The word JENGA is Swahili for "build".
 

 
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