Sentences with phrase «jenga towers»

The game mechanics are pretty much the same with a lot of throwing balls block towers, blowing up bombs to get the most points, and variations of Jenga towers to take apart carefully.

The Scottish Parliament Building, a discordant ode to steel, oak and granite, and the streamlined neo-fortress of the Museum of Scotland are both comfortably embedded among precarious medieval buildings that teeter - like grey - stone Jenga towers over Old Town's cobblestone streets.

A husband and father of two, Chris and his wife, Kelly spend their nights / weekends completing complex jig - saw puzzles and hand fashioning their own Jenga towers from their home grown fungi collection.

Handsomely shot by Steve Yedlin, Rian Johnson's regular cinematographer, and boasting a typically likable Dwayne Johnson as its star, San Andreas nonetheless struggles to drum up tension or interest, even as skyscrapers topple like Jenga towers and massive tidal waves sweep through San Francisco Bay.

Currently under construction, the skyscraper has a very unusual shape, and is often referred to as «Jenga Tower» by locals.

Mark Carney, Bank of England governor, said that he agreed with Douglas Flint's «Jenga tower» description regarding the precarious position of London's economic system with Brexit on the horizon.

«The economic system (in London) is like a Jenga tower... you don't know what will happen if you pull pieces out,» Douglas Flint, HSBC chairman, told MPs on Tuesday.

Dubbed the «Jenga Tower,» this 58 - story skyscraper designed by Rhode: Partners will be Austin's tallest building when complete in late 2018.

Instead of a bubble, our beliefs should be like a Jenga tower that is built on a solid foundation (that of Jesus Christ and the «essentials» of the Christian faith).

The owner of this particular Jenga set had written an instruction on each block in permanent black marker, and we had played a few rounds when one guy slid a wooden block from the Jenga tower and flipped it over to see what it said.

I know (all too well) the vigorous (sometimes vicious) arguments that weave a complex scaffold of doctrine and interpretation in which anything other than a literal reading brings the whole thing crashing down, like a teetering Jenga tower when one slim block is moved.

Apparently pulling Davis out of the line - up collapsed the whole rotation like a jenga tower.

The Red Sox, meanwhile — in the house of their tormentor, Babe Ruth — built a lead like a Jenga tower and then awaited its inevitable collapse.

I won't go so far as to suggest that the departure of Čech was akin to pulling out the wrong pin from a Jenga tower, but maybe there's something in that.

One misjudged placement, and the stroller becomes a precarious Jenga tower.

Think of that same Jenga tower turned askew after several rounds of play.

These little baked tofu fingers are so darn crispy that you can literally stack them into a Jenga tower of plant - based deliciousness!

Like a Jenga tower, this story needs constant creativity and care towards the ending to keep the plot firm and engaging.

When weak - stomached Sheriff Vogel (John Malkovich) starts poking around and USPS Inspector Joe Barrett (Oliver Platt) demands to see a corpse before he starts writing checks, Dwayne's Jenga tower of a plan begins to teeter dangerously.

At any rate, you can dispense with the messy, noisy and tedious creation of the Jenga tower thanks to NaturalMotion's modern 3D update to this party - game favorite.

The structure shares something with Christopher Nolan's Memento, but while that film was a Jenga tower of narrative riddles, precariously stacked, The Captive feels more like a scattered pile of jigsaw - pieces, which you group by colour and tone until the larger picture starts to cohere.

Simply number the blocks in a Jenga tower 1 - 24 (you may need to do two of each number), pupils then take turns to pull out a block to reveal its number.

Try their amazing Pad Thai or Chicken Cashews and behold Pak Ketut's punk rock approach to flicking Jenga pieces out of the Jenga tower.

Take one Jenga tower, add Tetris blocks and, well you know the rest.

But it doesn't change the fact that, throughout playing it, I felt as if I was staring at a wobbling Jenga tower just waiting for it to crash.

REALISTIC PHYSICS Real - time 3D physics simulation, authentically recreating the behavior of a real wooden Jenga tower.

Indeed, Art Basel in Hong Kong opened one day after visitors flocked to openings at H Queen's, a Jenga tower of world - class exhibition spaces that are orders of magnitude larger than the broom closets that previously passed for galleries in Hong Kong's cramped environs.

As with all things Brexit, there is no certainty surrounding whether or not jobs will be relocated, and even senior financial services titans disagree on the current state of the City: when HSBC chairman Douglas Flint compared London's post-Brexit financial services sector to a Jenga tower, poised to collapse, Lloyds Banking Group chairman Lord Blackwell was quick to disagree.

Not exact matches

I worry that pulling one element out into the light for full scrutiny may cause the whole edifice to collapse like a tower of Jenga blocks, revealing it for the pile of conceited verbiage that it quite possibly is.

He thought for a moment, balanced the Jenga block on top of the tower and asked a question we had to answer truthfully: «When did you lose your virginity?»

Like a game of Jenga, however, researchers have recently been removing bricks and destabilizing that towering timeline.

An ecosystem is a bit like a tower of Jenga: it can usually survive the loss of a few pieces, but removing further pieces becomes riskier and riskier and in the end it collapses.

Place your bricks to build the titular towers and you'll notice they're very slightly uneven, adding a touch of Jenga - style balancing to the mix.

It took us along the shore in front of a giant Jenga - block scramble of horizontal white towers that belong to Statoil.

It's like a giant game of Jenga: if you're not careful about which block you pull out of the pile, the whole tower can come crashing down!