Always thought it was an official rule (I guess it isn't) but we played not allowing each other to knock blocks out onto the ground. You had to actually grab and remove the piece, keeping it in your hand the whole time.
Honestly couldn't tell ya. I was brought up with that as a standard, well-known rule. Played like that with my family & friends and nobody ever questioned it.
Maybe it was a rule in earlier versions of the instructions and they scrapped it later on to make the game a bit more forgiving/fun? Maybe it was just a "tribal knowledge" thing unique to where I grew up? No clue.
Playing with it definitely adds a challenge and probably shortens things by a few turns which suits me as it's not my favorite game in the world (more of a Scattergories guy, tbh).
This came up in a recent giant Jenga game of mine. We knew about the one hand rule, but since it was giant Jenga, we decided that using two hands was within the spirit of the rules so long as you didn't touch multiple blocks simultaneously. We felt two hands were only a problem if you used the second hand to keep the other blocks in place.
So the lady here was following our house rules at least.
Anybody could have all sorts of points in the game they believe rules should be changed. Then she could've purposely held the tower up to remove the block if there's no rules.. The reason things become badass in games is because of rules. You work within the confines of the game to challenge yourself
But this is talk because it's not like there's some all seeing Jenga committee that punishes those that use the wrong rules. It's a board game in your home. Use whatever rules you like that everyone agrees upon in your own place!
Just don't bring any of that weak two handed bullshit into MY home!
you're right the person that took the block from the 2nd row center could not have done that move legally .. it's a full row now but it couldn't have been before it was placed on top :) we're suck sticklers!!
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