Leslie Scott
Jenga named inventors’ pick for the top toy or game of the past 70 years
The survey from the BTHA and Mojo Nation was carried out to celebrate the London Toy Fair’s 70th anniversary.
WATCH: Jenga creator Leslie Scott’s TEDxVienna talk on ‘Keeping It Simple’
The session sees Scott reveal the surprising complexity that emerges when we play a game by a few simple rules.
Jenga creator Leslie Scott on how her approach to game design changed post-Jenga
Based on a game that Leslie Scott devised in the early 1970s with her baby brother’s toy building blocks, Jenga’s journey to becoming the household name it is today actually had a rocky start.
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