I never got a chance to play it, but a boardgame called Sarah's Vision came out a few years ago now that incorporated Jenga-like blocks in the game in what sounded like an interesting way. The whole game just sounded interesting, even the fact that the company that published it is an insurance company, and if I recall its design came about as the result of a team-building exercise within that company? A friend of mine who got the game (a German version of it, or possibly French) told me the story. Wish I had tried it out. The game supplies its own blocks, plastic and smaller than Jenga blocks. Adding story elements to the tension of a Jenga tower is brilliant. Who doesn't have Jenga lying around? 

A random thing to bring up on a cold Tuesday morning, but only because I saw mention of a horror RPG that also uses Jenga blocks which sounds really fascinating. I'm more of a boardgames than a role-player, though I do want to get way more into RPGs eventually (Pallas has been learning to DM and we have played a D&D game with her, we just need to do more). So this game is called Dread and even without knowing anything about the story itself, just the fact that it incorporates that stress of pulling a block from the tower, hoping it won't topple.... like why didn't I think of that?

Here's another one, called Star-Crossed, about forbidden romance and star-crossed lovers, who really really want to, but really really can't. 

I love the creativity in this whole realm of game design, whether boardgames or tabletop role playing games. Video games too but I am no expert in those. I mainly just play Clash of Clans and Super Smash Bros, games which reward button mashing more than skill. There are very interesting games now that incorporate journaling that I wish I had the time to really delve into. And dominoes are being used in new and interesting ways as well. There's a new game called Renature that I really want to try.