I could be wrong, but wasn't there a "no touching the rest of the tower" rule in Jenga? I mean it does make sense to not have that in a timed variant but still, wasn't there such a thing?
@@doomse150 jenga rules are like UNO rules - different in every house, and everyone insists that they play it the "right" way when no one has read the instruction in the last 10 years. As for me and my house, you can stabilize with one hand while pulling with the other, pivot, rock, or resettle blocks without removing them, and otherwise do whatever the hell you want as long as you don't detach more than one block from the tower at a time or knock it over.
I now must make a bunch of little chessclocks and use them in Jenga, with an actual chessclock made from a giant Jenga piece for the chessclock bit of Tom's mundane chessclock Jenga.
You must be a math prodigy. Can I see your work? I mean obviously that was so hard to work out. I'd be interested to know what sorts of complicated mathematics go into such a difficult mathematical quandary.
@@ziyang8587 I don't think the question mark is because of that. Chess clock is already a part of Chess so it doesn't make sense to say that a producer of a show about chess would need to say "write that down". Maybe this is the reason for the question mark
*Game Design: Improve Games with Simple Changes* Jenga has a classic problem of people procrastinating, this simple addition of a chess clock timer solves the problem and ultimately changes the experience.
Matt cheated by using his second hand to hit the clock! Traditionally in chess you must only use one hand to move your piece and you must touch only that piece (rather like in Jenga) but then you must also use the same hand with which to hit the clock.
doomed89 It's just a convention on how chess clocks are used which makes it more fair - else there's potential discrepancy as to whether or not the clock was actually pressed before or after the move was completed. I'm being only a little tongue-in-cheek. :P
I don't think I've ever played normal Jenga but my goodness I want to play this. Not just play it, but continue to watch it be played. This should be a televised sport. Best-of-3 matches, tournaments, global rankings, the whole thing.
I'll occasionally fall asleep to Tom's videos. Nicely paced and relaxing and educational. This is an anxious nightmare of anxiety and anxiety. And I love it
I thought it would be Jenga combined with chess, where you remove one block and then do a move in chess and keep repeating until either the Jenga tower falls down or there is a checkmate.
It would have to be move either a chess piece or a jenga piece, because otherwise the jenga is going to dominate because it just doesn't last as many moves.
@@orsomethingorno But then you just play chess. It is hardly ever optimal to skip a move in a chess game, and its hardly ever optimal to move in a jenga game.
Chess clocks normally add one or two seconds for each move done (actually when you hit the clock to start the opponent’s clock). This allows you to actually gain time if you’re fast enough, or simply to make the tense end-game where players only have a few more seconds last longer. You should also do that imo.
I'd love to see a tournament of this with the guys from Technical Difficulties :D A winner gets a mystery fruit. Because... well... you know... Apples -> Newton -> Gravity -> Jenga
I've been playing with friends for a couple of months, and I think 1m + 2s Fischer leads to a balanced game. By the way, I think Matt technically should have lost, as he clocked with the wrong hand on his last move at 1:50.
I have hardcore analysis paralysis / choice anxiety. I like to examine every possible move and every possible move after that and every possible move after that. Basically when I play a strategic game, I try to plan 3 generations ahead in all possible moves I could take. I always want to take the most right move. Add a chess clock to any game, and I will give you the three worst moves possible, inadvertently letting you win in 10 seconds every time. xD
I would add a rule that you have to hit the clock with the same hand that you use for moving the blocks. Using the other hand for that (like Matt did in his last move) seems a bit like cheating to me.
I would disagree, requiring the same hand for both the move and the clock would be unfair to one person unless one of the people playing was right handed, and the other left handed.
2birdbrained4u In chess, you don't have to swing your arm past pieces that are easily knocked down. However in Jinga that would be required. Now if the chess clock could be split into to physically separate units (say linked together via radio or perhaps a cable routed to not interfere with the game in progress), then it would be fair.
I've only just noticed that Matt kinda cheats on his last move. In competitive chess, you use the same hand that moved a piece to hit the chess clock, and while Matt most his moves, his last move uses his right but taps the clock with his left!
I thought you were only allowed to touch one piece at a time... Tom was clearly using more than that to steady the stack a few times. Disqualified! Good video though
@@JustConcede Well, that rules exist because of a reason, If we're allowed to do this, we can literally just put our hand (that are not being used) in the clock, I don't think that would be a good thing to watch, it would also be hard to know if they touch the clock after they have made their move
