Toys and games news: young inventors challenge in Chicago

All toys and games lovers have a meeting in Chicago this November, at the Chicago Toy and Game fair (CHITAG), one of the most interesting events in the United States for the newest tendencies and the coolest releases in the playthings industry. The Chicago Toy & Game Fair is famous not only for its huge showroom and its great location in the suggestive Navy Pier in Chicago, but also because is the centre of many important initiative, like the Young Inventor Challenge (YIC), which every year give the chance to new young inventors to win rich prizes and promote their original toys and games inventions to the top industries in this field. If you are creative and you have invented new games and toys you can download the application form for the Young Inventor Challenge on the Chicago Toy & Game fair official website. In the weekend of 21 -22 November you can have some fun with your children at the Chicago Toy & Game fair playing and trying all the newest games releases. The video below shows the Kapla tower game made by Benjamin Takemori and build with over 5000 wooden blocks during the Chicago Toy & Game Fair. This is a massive and stylish version of the classic party game called Jenga, a game of physical and mental skill with 54 wooden blocks pieced together in a tower formation; you have to remove the wooden pieces from the bottom avoiding the fall of the entire structure. The Kapla tower is just one of the many live gaming performances of the Chicago Toy & Game Fair, an happy place where children and parents can enjoy some free time together having fun and playing with all the new toys and games concepts, before their release on the market.