This hurts the game’s pacing as you are regularly waiting for the blocks to get put back on the tower so the next player can take their turn.įor the most part I would say that Jenga Max is a pretty easy game to play. This can cause even more blocks to be knocked off and it can become a never ending cycle. Later in the game you could easily knock over four or five blocks which means that you have to put all of them back on the tower. The problem though is that you might end up spending more time putting blocks back onto the tower than you do initially placing them. The good news is that the game doesn’t end when someone knocks blocks off the tower or else the game would end almost immediately. This is why when any player even slightly moves the tower it knocks off blocks. The reason that it seems to keep happening is that the hooks don’t fit well into the holes and thus can slide out easily. This was usually caused by a player that is not great at dexterity games but it still happened quite a bit with players that are usually pretty good at dexterity games.

It seemed like after every couple turns, one or more blocks would fall off a different part of the tower. Probably the biggest problem that I had with Jenga Max is that blocks are constantly falling off the tower. Basically I felt Jenga Max and Jenga were pretty equal with there being some things I preferred in each game. If you don’t really like Jenga, Jenga Max is not going to change your mind. You are still just adding blocks to a tower like so many other dexterity games. While Jenga Max does give you some flexibility in how you place the blocks, it otherwise is just Jenga. This adds some strategy to the game since you can place blocks trying to make the tower fall on the next player’s turn or play it safe by placing a block in order to better balance out the tower. The possible towers you can make in Jenga Max are almost endless. You can have blocks hang down from one another or you can make the blocks hang up and over the tower. Instead of just taking a block from the bottom of the tower and placing it onto the top of the tower, in Jenga Max you have a lot more flexibility in how you want to place the blocks. The most obvious difference between the two games is with how the towers are assembled. Jenga Max does distinguish itself in a couple ways though. Reviewīeing heavily inspired by Jenga (sharing a name was kind of a give away), it is not surprising that the two games share a lot in common. If all of the blocks can be moved to form only one group of blocks, the players have beaten the game. If all of the blocks are placed on the tower and the tower doesn’t fall down, players begin taking blocks from one of the two groups of blocks that have the least amount of blocks in them and add them to the largest group of blocks. The last player to successfully place a block has won the game.

Jenga board game rules