KAPLA Challenge — 16 Natural Planks & 12 Cards Box

Sixteen planks. Twelve cards. One rule: your structure has to hold for three seconds.

The KAPLA Challenge takes the open-ended logic of the standard plank and turns it into a game of skill. Each of the 12 challenge cards shows a KAPLA structure; the task is to reproduce it exactly using the 16 natural pine planks provided. The cards progress in difficulty from the first to the twelfth — early structures are achievable in a minute or two; the final challenges require genuine concentration, patience, and a steady hand. Play against the clock, play against a friend, or work through the cards alone. The compact box (12.8 x 12.8 x 3.8cm) goes anywhere and starts fights at dinner tables. Landes pine from KAPLA's own sustainably managed French forests, no glue required.

• 16 natural Landes pine planks and 12 challenge cards, progressing in difficulty
• Reproduce each card's structure — it counts if it holds for three seconds
• Play solo, against the clock, or competitively — suits ages 6 to adult
• Compact box: 12.8 x 12.8 x 3.8cm, 300g — takes it anywhere
• Landes pine from sustainably managed French forests; food-grade dyes on coloured planks

KAPLA was invented in 1987 by Tom van der Bruggen, a Dutch antique dealer who fell in love with a ruined farm on the Tarn river in southern France and decided to turn it into a castle. To plan the build, he made a scale model — and finding that wooden blocks were too bulky for the details, he designed his own plank, based on the precise ratio 1:3:15. The result was KAPLA: a single plank that can build anything. The planks are made from sustainably managed Landes pine, grown in KAPLA's own forests in the south-west of France, and coloured with food-grade dyes. The company remains based near Bordeaux.