Today, I’ll show you one of the coolest projects I’ve ever done!

It’s the Gigga Paletti, a funkier version of the Villa Paletti, an award winning stacking game that won the Spiel de Jahres in 2002! For those who haven’t seen it before, here’s the BoardGameGeek Link. However, to fully understand it you must play it: the pieces are too colorful and at first glance the game looks like one of those childish wooden toys.

Anyway, I brought the game to work one day and, after some hesitancy, everyone played it and they were thrilled! We started to think of ways to improve the game: It shouldn’t be that tiny! To fully comprehend the greatness of designing a Paletti tower, we should make it huge!

Some sketches were made to provide a good height for the endgame: since the tower grows taller as the game progresses, we couldn’t let it become so tall we’d need stairs to finish the bulding…

So it turned into this:

More images and a quick description of the project after the break!

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