Physics nerfed for Jenga

Posted Jul 19th 2007 1:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News

We suspected that the Wii controls would make Jenga significantly more difficult than the real thing, but that isn't the case, according to Siliconera's Spencer Yip. Instead, he found that it often required real effort to make the tower fall down. He tested this by smacking the tower with his virtual hand a few times, which caused shifting, but not collapse.

He was slightly down on the idea of an easier Jenga, but we could see ourselves making it fun for ... a few minutes. Imagine putting every piece on top of the tower so that it sticks out halfway, creating a tower that builds outward at a 45 degree angle. Can't do that with real Jenga! Seriously, though, the defining image of Jenga is of the tower toppling in a humiliating cacophony and spectacular dispersion of blocks. We don't know if it's going to feel like Jenga without constant failure.

Tags: atari, jenga, puzzle

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-19-2007 @ 1:11PM

hvnlysoldr said...

The paradox of Jenga as a drinking game. You have to be sober enough to not clumsily knock over the tower, and reassemble it, but you drink to have fun and wouldn't otherwise play.

7-19-2007 @ 1:46PM

Jonathan Tran said...

considering physics is 98% of the point of Jenga, this is alittle bit of a letdown, even for such an obviously shovelware title.

7-20-2007 @ 6:57AM

Burnt Meatloaf said...

You know, it never ceases to amaze me that people with some level of artistic skill actually decide to work on these kinds of projects.

7-20-2007 @ 9:15AM

nawtyeravgjoe said...

the only way i'd get this is if each block had one out of a million truth or dare's on them, but i know it doesn't.

7-20-2007 @ 1:34PM

Shmil said...

i'll probably end up picking this up for the sole reason that my aunt invented jenga

7-20-2007 @ 3:12PM

AndrewNeo said...

45% angle? I'm pretty sure you meant degrees. Because 45 degrees is 12.5% of a circle.

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