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Leslie Scott

Jenga wooden block game

United Kingdom · TanzaniaEvidence: high confidenceChecked July 2026

Leslie Scott invented and commercialized Jenga, the wooden block game whose tower progressively loses stability as players remove pieces. A 2025 countryside association profile marks forty years since she launched it, while Glyndebourne’s interview calls Scott Jenga’s inventor and describes a box she designed for its shop.

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What Leslie did

invented and commercialized Jenga as a physical stacking-block game

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Why it matters

The 2025 profile marks four decades of Jenga’s worldwide gaming legacy.

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Living-status check

The Country Land and Business Association revised its profile of Scott and Jenga on February 25, 2025.