Leslie Scott (board game designer)

Leslie Ann Scott ( born December 18, 1955 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a British author games. She was known especially for the party game Jenga, which was shown at the 1983 London Toy Fair Toy Fair and published in the same year in the UK for the first time. In Germany, the game was released in 1989.

Life

Scott grew up in Ghana, Kenya and Sierra Leone. After schooling in these countries, she moved to the English Oxford to study there. There she met her future husband, Fritz Vollrath know, an Oxford zoology professor. The couple has two children.

Although she now lives mostly in Oxford, she feels Africa, which they called their home, very connected. It maintains a second home in Laikipia (Kenya) and is fluent in Swahili.

Leslie Scott founded in 1991 as the game manufacturer Oxford Games Ltd.. She was awarded the 2010 Wonder Women of Toys Inventor / Designer Award and 2012 with the Tagie award for Excellence in Game Design.

Ludography

• Jenga published, 1983 ( UK), 1989 MB ( D)
• Ex Libris, published in 1991 ( GB)
• The Great Western Railway Game, published in 1985 ( GB)
• Anagram, published in 1991 ( GB)
• Tabula, published in 1990 ( GB)
• Bookworm, published in 1994 ( GB)

Bibliography

• Leslie Scott: About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game did Became a Household Name. Greenleaf Book Group Press, Austin (Texas ) 2009, ISBN 978-1-60832-002-8, OCLC 502,340,081th