This Dresden, Ont., resident's Jenga world record is all it's stacked up to be

Kendra Seguin · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 10, 2025 5:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

A Dresden, Ont., nonmigratory present holds a satellite grounds rubric for gathering a operation utilizing the pieces from a classical household game.

Meindert de Boer broke the grounds for astir Jenga blocks stacked connected a azygous vertical Jenga block, utilizing implicit 3000 pieces to create a operation measuring much than 100cm tall. 

He made the effort successful St. Catharines successful June 2024, and Guinness World Records awarded him the authoritative rubric past Friday. 

"It's not astir being amended than idiosyncratic else, but it's astir being capable to vie successful an astir Olympic-style way," de Boer said. "It feels similar a bully achievement."

To interruption the record, de Boer could lone spot 1 artifact astatine a clip and his operation needed to basal by itself for 30 seconds. After six hours of building, helium broke the grounds utilizing 58 Jenga game boxes, which totals up to 3,132 blocks.

"It could beryllium implicit successful a second. That's the amusive of it," said de Boer, adding that helium had 1 adjacent telephone wherever the operation wobbled astatine 39 boxes of blocks.

"That had my humor rising and I had to re-stabilize it," helium said. "You've got to beryllium quick."

Instead of gathering consecutive up, de Boer's operation took connected a triangular signifier astatine the bottom, earlier turning into a plus-sign signifier adjacent the top. 

"The triangle is the strongest signifier of each the shapes," de Boer said. "The method is fundamentally similar bricklaying. As agelong arsenic each artifact is connected apical of the other, it holds everything successful place."

de Boer prepared for the grounds by regularly practicing building, adding much boxes of blocks each time. He livestreams his at-home gathering attempts connected societal media, wherever he's known as The Professor Loves Balancing, and said followers nonstop him Jenga boxes to adhd much pieces to his stacks.  

"I'm ever trying antithetic patterns and antithetic shapes to spot what works best," de Boer said.

His idiosyncratic champion Jenga stack utilized 82 boxes of blocks, so more record attempts are successful his future, de Boer said, adding that he'll situation anyone who beats his title, and is besides funny successful trumping himself.