![]() Read more: Young Salmon Arm Jenga record holder’s towers about to get much bigger Read more: Salmon Arm boy rests world-record attempt on single Jenga brick In addition to breaking his own record, Auldin also put those giant blocks to use, building a 500-block tower balanced on a single block, earning him another record title. On March 27, he built a tower of 1,400 regular-sized Jenga blocks on one vertical block. The toy and game company sent Auldin 24 packs of their giant Jenga blocks so that he might try breaking another record. In addition to getting his name in the Guinness Book of World Records, the Shuswap Middle School student also caught the attention of Hasbro, the company that produces Jenga. In January of this year, Auldin Maxwell’s talent for stacking Jenga blocks earned him a world record when he constructed a tower of 693 blocks on a single vertical one. ![]() ![]() He said in an unofficial attempt, he has tied the record for most Jenga blocks taken out of a game within one minute without knocking over the tower.A Salmon Arm youth’s knack for breaking world records earned him special attention during Autism Acceptance Month. ![]() She thinks the focus and determination required for the world-record breaking tower is a part of the way his autism manifests.Īuldin is already looking into other possible world records to attempt to break. Murray added that Maxwell is on the autism spectrum and he has always enjoyed stacking and arranging things. Maxwell’s mom Kelly Murray said one of his teachers at Shuswap Middle School thinks he has a future in engineering, but Maxwell hopes to be an actor one day. The official word that Maxwell had achieved a Guinness World Record came through on Jan. Read More: Oklahoma lawmaker proposes ‘Bigfoot’ hunting season Read More: Lake Country firefighters help deliver baby boy He beat the standing record on his first attempt but an error with the camera used to document the feat forced him to go again – on his third attempt he stacked up all 693 blocks over the course of a little more than an hour. Maxwell and his family geared up to officially attempt a record-breaking tower on Nov. Auldin experimented with a variety of tower designs from hollow squares to stacked octagons before settling on the solid column of blocks. Read More: Province’s vaccine timeline a shot of hope for Salmon Arm mayorĪlthough he has enjoyed testing the limits of his focus and balance by stacking blocks, cups and other items for a long time, the attempts at a world record began as a way to alleviate quarantine boredom in March 2020. Read More: Salmon Arm Elks support charitable giving with successful 50/50 draw Another stacker’s unofficial attempt has reached 518 blocks, still far from Auldin’s total. Maxwell was out to beat the previous record of 485 blocks by a convincing margin and now hopes to add at least another full box to his tower in order to ward off the competition. The risk of a toppling tower is only increased with 13 times as many blocks resting on a much less stable base. The record attempt used pieces from the game Jenga, in which players try to pull wooden blocks out of a stack without knocking the whole thing over. The only reason he stopped stacking on the top-heavy tower was because there were no more blocks in the house. When Maxwell had completed it, the solid square tower resting on top of a single narrow piece of wood contained 693 blocks, the equivalent of 13 full Jenga sets which had to be carefully stacked one at a time. The 12-year-old Salmon Arm boy says he has wanted to break a world record since he was six years old, and after months of honing his technique, Maxwell crushed the record for most the Jenga blocks stacked on top of a single vertical block. Auldin Maxwell’s November 2020 world record attempt rested on a single Jenga block.
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