The classic Jenga in a modern design: with a steady hand,

stones have to be removed from the block tower in order

to put them back on top.

But be careful: the higher the tower,

the greater the risk of collapse.

Jenga is played with 54 wooden blocks; each block is 3 times as long as it is wide,

 and slightly smaller in height than in width. The blocks are stacked in a tower

 formation; each story is three blocks placed adjacent to each other along their

 long side, and each story is placed perpendicular to the previous (so, for example,

 if the blocks in the first story are pointing north-south, the second story blocks 

will point east-west). There are therefore 18 stories to the Jenga tower. Since stacking

 the blocks neatly can be tedious, a plastic loading tray is included.

Once the tower is built, the person who built the tower moves first. Moving in Jenga

 consists of taking one and only one block from any story except the completed top story 

of the tower at the time of the turn, and placing it on the topmost story in order to complete it.

 Only one hand at a time may be used to remove a block; both hands can be used, but only one hand

 may be on the tower at a time. Blocks may be bumped to find a loose block that will not disturb 

the rest of the tower. Any block that is moved out of place may be left out of place if it is 

determined that it will knock the tower over if it is removed. The turn ends when the next person

 to move touches the tower, although he or she can wait 10 seconds before moving for the previous 

turn to end if they believe the tower will fall in that time.

The game ends when the tower falls in any significant way -- in other words, any piece falls from 

the tower, other than the piece being knocked out to move to the top. The loser is the person who 

made the tower fall (i.e. whose turn it was when the tower fell); the winner is the person who moved before the loser.

The same game concept was published in 1984 by Fagus under the name "Hoppla - eins zuviel!"