The Day I Defeated Jenga!

A short essay by Jake

On July 24, 2001, my friend Jason and I decided to play a game of Jenga.  I'm sure I could write a better story, but I've pretty much forgotten all the defining moments of the game, so I'll just post some pictures. In fact, I even made up the date. It was definitely during the summer of 2001, though.

  Basically, we finished the game - there were no more pieces to take off the top.  

Above, you can see that the game was technically over at this point.  The only place to take pieces from is the top row, which is against the rules.  However, we wanted to go on..

So we moved 2 of the pieces on the top row into 2 new rows.  Now, the only thing that was left was to attempt to pull pieces really fast out of the bottom, hoping that the stack would drop perfectly down and stay standing.  This did not work.  However, I do not have a picture of the pieces laying all over the floor and table.  Use your imagination.  Alternately, follow these simple steps:

• Buy your own set of Jenga blocks, if you don't already own some
• Set them up
• Knock them over.

It looked a little something like that.

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