Leslie Scott (game designer)

Leslie Scott
Leslie Scott
Born	18 December 1955; Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika
Occupation	Game designer, author
Known for	Jenga
Partner(s)	Fritz Vollrath
Children	Frederica & Digby

Leslie Scott (born 1955) is a British board game designer and author,[1] best known as the inventor of the game Jenga, which she launched at the London Toy Fair 1983.

Early life and education

Born in Tanzania, Scott was raised in East and West Africa, and educated in Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Taunton, England.[2]

Career

Scott is inventor of the game Jenga, which she launched at the London Toy Fair 1983. She founded Oxford Games Ltd in 1991.[3]

She is a founder trustee of The Smithsonian UK Charitable Trust.[4]

Honours

She is the recipient of the 2010 Wonder Women of Toys Inventor/Designer Award,[5] and the 2012 Tagie award for Excellence in Game Design.[6]

Private life

Scott is married to the Oxford zoologist Professor Fritz Vollrath. They have two children, Frederica and Digby.

Works

Games

Jenga
Ex Libris, the game of first lines and last words
The Great Western Railway Game
Anagrams, the game of juggling words
Tabula, the Roman game
Bookworm, the game of reading and remembering

Books

About Jenga, the remarkable business of creating a game that became a household name[7]

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gollark: You can actually override DNS on Android even without root.

gollark: Idea: bot which compresses images then privmsgs them to Kit on IRC.

gollark: I am counting that.

References

"Radio 4 Woman's Hour – The woman who created a game that became a household name". BBC. Archived from the original on 20 November 2009.
Stevens, Interview by Jenny (30 March 2015). "How we made Jenga" – via The Guardian.
Wolfe, Lahle. "Leslie Scott, Inventor of Jenga and Co-Founder of Oxford Games". The Balance Careers.
Smithsonian UK Charitable Trust
Playthings Magazine
The Toy & Game Inventor Awards
Wall Street Journal

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[1] "Radio 4 Woman's Hour – The woman who created a game that became a household name". BBC. Archived from the original on 20 November 2009.

[Guardian_30_Mar_2015-2] Stevens, Interview by Jenny (30 March 2015). "How we made Jenga" – via The Guardian.

[3] Wolfe, Lahle. "Leslie Scott, Inventor of Jenga and Co-Founder of Oxford Games". The Balance Careers.

[4] Smithsonian UK Charitable Trust

[5] Playthings Magazine

[6] The Toy & Game Inventor Awards

[7] Wall Street Journal