OK, I'll be honest...I didn't just lose the battle, I lost three in a row! That's right, my Jenga skills are not at an advanced level; That is to say I'm rather bad at Jengarising, Jengifery? Jengology! Whatever it's called, I suck at it.
This Christmas we decided to set a limit per person and do the Christmas present thing which we do not usually do. It actually worked out really well and it's quite surprising what a $100 limit can buy when one applies one's imagination. One of gifts I got was Jenga, a game I've been wanting for a while but never had enough motivation to buy.
Now I've got Jenga it's time to crush everyone, I thought to myself but...Well, there was crushing alright, but it was me getting crushed.
We unboxed Jenga after lunch on Christmas day. I'd had a gin and tonic which I eventually blamed for my defeat(s) but that would come later, the defeats - At the unboxing and setting up stage I was all confidence and trash-talk...For which I paid later.
For those who don't know, Jenga is a game where one has a stack of little wooden blocks, stacked in levels of three first one way and then the next, cross-hatch style. The game is for each player to remove a block in turn and not have the tower collapse. The winner is the person whose turn it was before the tower collapses. As each block is removed it's replaced on the very top of the stack so it gets higher and higher, and more unstable at the base and lower levels as the game progresses.
I think my problem derived from the fact I attacked it too hard, always looking for the killer move and trying to set up the next player.
I'd try and remove the blocks that would render the stack very unstable which meant I was always removing those most precarious foundation blocks. I'm very steady of hand and have a light touch when required but...Well, my own cleverness, engineering and the laws of gravity always seemed to outsmart me.
Above you can see one of my opponents, my wife Faith, contemplating her move. She kept trying to distract my focus with her boobs but impervious to their charms I persisted...Actually that's a lie, I'm not impervious at all and now I think of it I should have blamed her boob-tactics for my losses, declared it unfair or something.
Here you can see one of the towers we were playing. It was very top-heavy as I'd removed most of the stabilising blocks in my bid for Jenga glory, otherwise known as Jenglory, however just like the previous two Jenga battles the tower collapsed as I was removing a block and...I lost again.
This is one of the most simple of games; There's not much to it at all but it's fun! I find it fun anyway, yes even despite losing all the time. We haven't played since Christmas day although we have a Jenga battle set for later tonight and I just know it's my time to shine! Distracting boob-tactics will have no affect on me. Ok, yes they will, but I'll try really hard not to get distracted!
Gaming doesn't mean computer or video games to me, I prefer board games, but how about you? What games did you get for Christmas or do you play as a family?
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