Jenga

English

A Jenga tower

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili -jenga (“to construct, to build”).

Proper noun

Jenga

1. (games) A game where players take turns removing wooden blocks from a stack formed brickwise, the loser being the player whose actions cause the tower to collapse.
2. (figurative) Any activity that involves great precision with a risk of great failure.

Translations

game

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 層層疊 / 层层叠 (cang⁴ cang⁴ dip⁶)

  Mandarin: 疊疊樂 / 叠叠乐

• Finnish: huojuva torni
• Japanese: ジェンガ (Jenga)
• Korean: 젠가 (Jen'ga)