Leslie Scott, is a British board game designer and author, best known as the inventor of the game, Jenga

Jenga

Jenga is a game of physical and mental skill created by Leslie Scott, and currently marketed by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. During the game, players take turns to remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, creating a taller and increasingly unstable structure as the game...

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Born in Tanzania

Tanzania

The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

, Scott was raised in East and West Africa, and educated in Uganda

Uganda

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, Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

, Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

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 and England

England

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Leslie Scott founded Oxford Games Ltd

Oxford Games

- History :Founded by Leslie Scott , and the graphic designer, Sara Finch.Finch & Scott co-designed Swipe and The Great Western Railway Game in 1985, and then went on to develop and design almost forty games together...

 in 1991, and she is the recipient of the 2010 Wonder Women of Toys Inventor/Designer Award.
Scott is married to the Oxford zoologist, Professor Fritz Vollrath. They have two children, one called Digby who is reading Politics at the University of Leeds.

Authored Games

• Jenga
  Jenga
  Jenga is a game of physical and mental skill created by Leslie Scott, and currently marketed by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. During the game, players take turns to remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, creating a taller and increasingly unstable structure as the game...
  
  
• Ex Libris, the game
  Ex Libris (game)
  Ex Libris, the game of first lines and last words is a board-less game of literary bluff in the dictionary game genre. First published in 1991 by the English board game company, Oxford Games Ltd, Ex Libris was devised and compiled by Leslie Scott , and designed by Sara Finch...
  
   of first lines and last words
• The Great Western Railway Game
• Anagram, the ingenious game of juggling words
  Anagrams
  Anagrams, Pirate Scrabble, Anagram, Snatch, or Grabscrab is a board-free word game that involves rearranging letter tiles to form words....
  
  
• Tabula, the roman game
• Bookworm, the game of reading and remembering

Authored Books

1. About Jenga, the remarkable business of creating a game that became a household name