Jenga is a stacking game in which players pull blocks from a tower and place them on top until it topples. It was created by Leslie Scott, a British designer born in Tanganyika who grew up speaking Swahili. The game grew out of a family pastime in the early 1970s played with wooden blocks bought from a sawmill in Takoradi, Ghana. Its name comes from kujenga, the Swahili word for to build. Scott launched it at the London Toy Fair in January 1983, and the first blocks were made by the Camphill Village Trust in Yorkshire. The rights passed through several companies, and by 2019 more than 80 million games had been sold worldwide. In 2020 it entered the US National Toy Hall of Fame.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.