Tom Van der Bruggen, a former antiques dealer and piano salesman, invented the game of small pine-wood planks that can be used to form buildings or other objects after using them to help design ...

Marseille (France) (AFP) – The Dutch inventor of hit wooden construction game Kapla, which has entertained children and inspired architects for four decades, has died at the age of 80, his wife told ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Van der Bruggen hit upon the idea for Kaples when he used small planks to design his castle (REMY GABALDA) (REMY GABALDA/AFP/AFP) ...

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The Dutch inventor of hit wooden construction game Kapla, which has entertained children and inspired architects for four decades, has died at the age of 80, his wife told AFP. Tom Van der Bruggen, a ...

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