A closer look
The reason you always lose isn't just your incredibly shaky hands; the game is literally rigged against you. When Leslie Scott created Jenga, she didn't just cut fifty-four perfectly identical pieces of wood. She specifically instructed the manufacturer to include fractional, microscopic variations in the thickness and weight of every single block. This calculated lack of uniformity guarantees that the tower will inevitably wobble, ensuring friction is unpredictable and the wooden skyscraper is destined to crash onto your coffee table.
