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Not the silent type? This winter saw the full-steam emergence of another classic game in the boisterous yet thoughtful category (see: Trivial Pursuit)---Jenga! Who would've known it'd dominate late nights and fancy-dress parties alike? And who would've guessed it wasn't officially a game til the 1980's? Or that a lady named Leslie Scott based it off a game her family played while living in Ghana in the early 1970's and called it "Jenga" from the swahili verb "to build"? And who the hell would've imagined that that tallest Jenga tower may have reached 40 2/3 levels? Well, now you know. I dare you to beat level 34 without waking the neighbors.