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The Jackbox Party Pack (series)

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The games in the series are for playing with friends, family and streaming (not all modes), online. In order to play, one copy of the game is required. Other players only need to see the game screen and connect from their mobile devices or computers via a special website - jackbox.tv . In most games the maximum number of players is 8 (there are exceptions), but the rest can connect to the viewers (starting with Party Pack 2 ) and influence the course of the game.

2.1 Settings
3 Game Type
4.1 The Jackbox Party Pack
4.2 The Jackbox Party Pack 2
4.3 The Jackbox Party Pack 3
4.4 The Jackbox Party Pack 4
4.5 The Jackbox Party Pack 5
4.6 The Jackbox Party Pack 6
4.7 The Jackbox Party Pack 7
4.8 The Jackbox Party Pack 8
4.9 The Jackbox Party Pack 9
4.10 The Jackbox Party Pack 10
7 Promotional Art
8.1 "Disabled"
8.2 JACKBOX Advertising App

History [ ]

Jellyvision was involved in the creation and development of the You Don't Know Jack franchise . The game series became famous back in the late 1990s, but by 2001 it was decided to disband the headquarters and all but six employees were laid off. The company focused on business software development.

In the future, Jellyvision returned to developing You Don't Know Jack , releasing new games first for consoles and later for mobile devices and social networks. The franchise brought the company its former success, and all future efforts were devoted to developing similar games. In 2013, the company was rebranded Jackbox Games , and in 2014 the first The Jackbox Party Pack was released.

On June 30, 2022, Jackbox Games released The Jackbox Party Starter - a separate kind of Party Pack in foreign languages in which the games were taken from the previous numerical Party Pack and improved it a little bit. In the meantime, in August 2022 it was announced that The Jackbox Party Pack 9 will have localization.

Innovation [ ]

Having demonstrated the success of The Jackbox Party Pack , the developers decided to release Party Pack 2 , including "Audience" and "Family Friendly" modes. Starting with Party Pack 3 , each game can play with up to 10,000 audience members, as in Party Pack 2 , the game can have up to 200 audience members.

With each release, Jackbox Games have added more and more options, so, for example, in Party Pack 4 they added the ability to adjust the volume of the sound, effects, music and overall volume; in Party Pack 5 they added the ability to specify the maximum number of players; in Party Pack 6 they added the ability to include subtitles, password the game; in Party Pack 7 they added the ability to moderate, function of reading the room code, etc; starting with Party Pack 8 the design of settings has completely changed, now divided into categories; in Party Starter they added a QR code function; in Party Pack 9 they added the ability to easily host reconnect; in Party Pack 10 they added the ability to adjust the audio mix.

Settings [ ]

In Party Pack there is only a sound and screen resolution setting. In Party Pack 8 the design of settings has completely changed, now divided into categories: Audio/Video, Content Control, Accessibility, Gameplay. Can access the settings menu during gameplay.

Audio/Video
Content Control
Accessibility

Game Type [ ]

Most games are based on players having to type/draw something, and after that a vote will take place for the best version, or the truthful one (in trivia games). Most games are played in multiple rounds. At the moment , the games are divided into the following types:

Drawing - games where drawing is the main element.
Trivia - games where players answer questions and/or select the correct answer. This is the kind of game where players need knowledge.
Fill-in-the-blank - is a game where players receive a prompt with a BLANK space and must fill in a response. Unlike typical " Writing " games, the player's goal is to provide the correct answer to the task.
Roleplay - games where players play the role they have chosen or are chosen by the game.
Hidden Identity - games where players hide their identities and/or have to uncover someone by performing various actions.
Teamwork - games where several players play for a single team. Players must communicate with each other and do actions that benefit the team. In these games, no individual can win, only the team can win.
Music - games where music is the main element.
Other (ex: Role Models )

These classifications of game types are not official (partially). Games with a "game type" can change if necessary. This mainly occurs when new games emerge, allowing for the identification of commonalities with older games. Otherwise, it would be categorized as an untyped " other " game. (This was the case, for example, with "Teamwork" games, which were categorized as "Other" until games like The Poll Mine, Dodo Re Mi, and FixyText appeared.)

For the moment the community will be supported by this classification until Jackbox Games publicly announces the classifications of all their games.

The Jackbox Party Pack [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack was released on November 26, 2014. The games included were:

The Jackbox Party Pack 2 [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack 2 was released on October 13, 2015. The games included were:

Audience caps at 200 players, according to the Jackbox Games website.

The Jackbox Party Pack 3 [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack 3 was released on October 17, 2016. The games included were:

Audience caps at 10,000 players during every game in Party Pack 3 and beyond.

The Jackbox Party Pack 4 [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack 4 was released on October 19, 2017. The games included for the pack are:

The Jackbox Party Pack 5 [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack 5 was announced in April of 2018, and released October 17th of the same year. It includes five games:

The Jackbox Party Pack 6 [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack 6 was announced on March 30, 2019 at PAX East, and was released on October 17th, 2019. The games that it includes are:

The Jackbox Party Pack 7 [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack 7 was announced on February 29th, 2020 in a teaser trailer on the official Jackbox Games YouTube channel. It was released on October 15th, 2020. The games included in the pack are:

The Jackbox Party Pack 8 [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack 8 was announced on March 18th, 2021 in a teaser trailer on the official Jackbox Games YouTube channel.

The Jackbox Party Pack 9 [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack 9 was announced on February 11, 2022. The game was released on October 20, 2022, it was announced on September 27.

The Jackbox Party Pack 10 [ ]

The Jackbox Party Pack 10 was announced on February 8, 2023.

Bundles [ ]

Jackbox Games provides several collections of games that can be purchased once and enjoy all the games that are included in them. They can be purchased in digital stores such as Steam, Microsoft Store, PS Store, Humble Bundle, Fanatical.

The Jackbox Party Pack Trilogy
The Jackbox Party Pack Trilogy 2.0
The Jackbox Party Quadpack
The Jackbox Party Quintpack
The Jackbox Party Bundle (Exclusive to Nintendo Europe)
The Jackbox Party Pack Trilogy 3.0
Jackbox Jukebox: Playing the Odds

"Disabled" [ ]

?????????? , known in the files of multiple Jackbox Party Packs as " Disabled " and commonly referred to as the " Bottle Game ", is a recurring mystery in the Jackbox Party Pack series. This "game" only appears if another game in the Pack is disabled in an internal file. This game's picker video is usually a static animation, and is usually represented by a bottle symbol, hence the name "Bottle Game."

JACKBOX Advertising App [ ]

This is the internal name for Party Pack 9 Demo , since the demo is used to advertise the new game. But it was added onto every pack and soundtrack, but it was never possible to download it. According to Jackbox Games , this is a mistake on Steam side, so if the Demo has been downloaded, the Release version could not be bought. One of the versions of the reasons is that there was one of the developer pages that showcases the games but randomly was added to each game.

1 The Jackbox Party Pack (series)
2 Trivia Murder Party 2
3 Fibbage (series)

How to play Jackbox games online with friends and family

Play Jackbox games remotely

Getting started

How to play jackbox games using video conferencing, how to play jackbox games using steam remote play.

The ability to play Jackbox online is a handy tool given that it's hard for friends and family to meet up and play games together. Jackbox games are some of the most popular party video games around, with each pack offering plenty of fun multiplayer games to partake in.

Jackbox packs contain quizzes, drawing tasks, and even word rap challenges and more, and they're super popular for in-person meet-ups. Since that's not possible right now, we thought we'd write up a guide on how to play online.

Jackbox games don't offer online matchmaking, but don't worry, you can still play Jackbox games remotely. All you need is willing participants equipped with smartphones, a host equipped with a PC version of a Jackbox game, a somewhat stable internet connection, and a video chat service that allows for screen-sharing.

Below, we'll run you through the simple steps you need to take to play Jackbox games online with your friends. It's worth noting that this guide will show you how to play Jackbox remotely on PC, as this is the easiest ( and best) way to play with others.

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1. Make sure the host owns a Jackbox Party pack

The first step to playing Jackbox games online with friends is making sure that person who wants to host the game owns a Jackbox Party Pack – no one else needs to have it – much like playing in-person. Remember, you need a PC version of the game to play properly online with friends.

You can find all Jackbox Party Packs to date on Steam , Humble or GMG – with Jackbox Party Pack 6 being the most recent addition to the series – alongside some special bundles that include more than one pack.

2. Launch game

Pretty straightforward, but the host of the game should launch whichever Jackbox Party Pack or game that you're planning to play. Make sure the game is launched on the PC or laptop that you plan on screen-sharing (or using Steam Remote Play) from.

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1. Jump into a video conference

If you're planning to play Jackbox games online using video conferencing software, then you and your friends need to jump into a video conference service that supports screen-sharing.

Jackbox Games suggests using Zoom , Discord or Google Hangouts , but it's worth noting that Zoom will kick you out after a certain amount of time unless you have an upgraded account.

Once you're all in, use the video conferencing software's screen-sharing option to allow all players on the call to see the game.

2. Connect to Jackbox TV

Once the game is booted up, and a specific game from within that chosen, a code will be shown in that individual game's lobby.

All players can then use their smartphone's web browser to go to Jackbox.TV , where you can fill in your name and the room code shown in the lobby - which you should be able to see on your screen thanks to screen-sharing.

Players should then appear in the game's lobby, once everyone's in then the host can start the game. It's as easy as pie.

However, each time you start a new game, you'll get a new code to input, so simply refresh Jackbox TV in your browser and input the details again.

Steam Remote Play Together allows you to play local co-op with friends on Steam, and is a great option for those who don't want to bother with video conferencing, however this option only allows up to four players to join - whereas video conferencing allows for more players.

Using Remote Play Together is super simple. While the game is launched, the host can go to their friends list on Steam and right-click each friend they want to invite. An option should appear that says "Remote Play Together". Click that and it should send that chosen friend an invite.

Other players just need to accept the invite in chat and you should all be thrown in the game together.

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All Jackbox Party Packs, Ranked

Out of all the releases, and many mini-games within, which Jackbox Party Pack is the best amongst them?

The Jackbox Party Packs are a great go-to entertainment source for any gathering. Just one person needs to buy a pack, and then everyone else can join in on the fun via their phones or any other device with a web browser. It's that simple.

Best Free Web-Browser Party Games To Try

With eleven fantastic Jackbox Party Packs to choose from, there are now so many different minigames to try. Some of the games involve drawing, while other games are all about writing the funniest answer. You'll likely have a lot of fun no matter what pack you go for, but what party pack offers the most incredible, most entertaining experience? To help make that decision, here are all the Jackbox games ranked.

Updated October 26, 2023, by Luke Ackroyd: A brand-new Jackbox Party Pack is released yearly, offering a fun selection of games. Each pack will often include a sequel to a classic game from the series, such as Fibbage, and many unique new experiences to try. So, what is the best Jackbox game? Whether you are into classic minigames or enjoy the more experimental editions, there is a Jackbox game out there for you and your friends to enjoy. With the launch of the Jackbox Party Pack 10, it is time to add it to the rankings of the best Jackbox Packs so far. Whether you agree with this ranking or not, each entry includes all the details you need to decide which Jackbox is the best for your group.

11 The Jackbox Party Pack

The jackbox party pack.

In a list to determine which Jackbox Party Pack is the best, unfortunately, one pack has to be in last place. The original party pack has five casual games for you to enjoy. Fibbage is a classic — it involves crafting convincing lies to fool others. Drawful allows everyone to test their drawing skills. Both are great games that will always go down well.

The main issue with this first pack is the lack of variety . You Don't Know Jack and Lie Swatter are two variations of trivia games. Drawful and Fibbage are similar as well. The remaining game, Word Spud, can fall flat at a party. Although the selection of games in this pack can be a lot of fun, you'll get more variety elsewhere.

10 The Jackbox Party Pack 5

The jackbox party pack 5.

Jackbox Party Pack 5's games are worth trying at least once . Patently Stupid is the best one. You design silly inventions and pitch them to your friends. You Don't Know Jack returns for more interesting trivia, and Mad Verse City has you crafting lyrics in an epic robot rap battle.

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Zeeple Dome is probably the most unique game here. You'll attempt to fling your character around an arena to hit your enemies. It can be chaotic fun, but the fiddly controls can make it quite frustrating. Split The Room has a great theme, but the game doesn't quite hold up. This pack offers some creative experiences, but you'll likely not be rushing back for more rounds of most of the games.

9 The Jackbox Party Starter

The jackbox party starter.

The Jackbox Party Starter is a great choice if you have not already purchased some of the other packs and are trying to figure out what is the best Jackbox Party Pack for your group. It includes Quiplash 3, Tee K.O., and Trivia Murder Party 2, which are all incredible games. There is a bit of everything: trivia, jokes, and drawing . They are all fast-paced games that will get everyone in your group laughing . The pack is also cheaper than the other options, making it less daunting for newcomers to take a chance and buy it for their friend group.

This starter is probably not worth getting for those who already have other Jackbox Party Packs . You'll have more variety with other packs on this list. The Jackbox Party Starter does update these games to include the same accessibility options as later Party Pack releases . Still, there is not enough new content to justify buying them twice.

8 The Jackbox Party Pack 6

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The Jackbox Party Pack 6 is a bit of a mixed bag. Trivia Murder Party 2 is fantastic - It captures the tone of the previous version well, and its final round has less of a runaway-winner feel to it. Role Models is great for getting to know your friends. Joke Boat is an attempt at a new Quiplash but feels too restrictive. Dictionarium can be enjoyable as you create new words, but it isn't the most exciting game.

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Push The Button is one of Jackbox's more ambitious games that takes an alternate approach to Among Us . It is a fun game, but it often comes down to random guesswork when attempting to find out who the aliens are. It is excellent to see Jackbox getting more ambitious with their games, but sometimes simpler ones work best. The pack has some great additions but some duds too.

7 The Jackbox Party Pack 4

The jackbox party pack 4.

The fourth party pack has some fun and creative games within it . Fibbage returns and adds a fantastic 'enough about you' round that makes it more personal to your group. Monster Seeking Monster is a quirky dating game. Survive The Internet relies on your friends giving you good prompts to work with, but with the right group can be hilarious.

Civic Doodle is similar to Gartic Phone in some ways. It isn't the strongest drawing game out of the Jackbox series, but you can get some beautiful creations out of it. Bracketeering can be fun with a big group or an audience to add to the votes but can feel a little repetitive, even with various twists in each round. Overall, this pack has a great selection of games that will keep you coming back .

6 The Jackbox Party Pack 10

The jackbox party pack 10.

The tenth Party Pack is more hit than miss , meaning there are a few Jackbox Party Packs ranked higher than it, but you can't go too wrong with the fun minigames available. The T-shirt drawing hilarity returns with Tee K.O. 2, bringing some welcomed updates to the original game. Timejinx offers some date-guessing trivia and fully embraces its entertaining time-travel theme throughout its varied rounds.

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Dodo Re Mi is a rhythm game that doesn't quite feel like the classic party game experience but is worth performing a song or two. FixyText has you writing incoherent messages with your friends but feels slightly repetitive. Finally, Hypnotorious is initially confusing but very engaging. The addition of a secret outlier adds a delightful twist to the experience. Overall, the Jackbox Party Pack 10 has a unique set of games that show that the series can still get creative with its concepts .

5 The Jackbox Party Pack 7

The jackbox party pack 7.

The Jackbox Party Pack 7 has some great games . Quiplash returns for its third installment. You get to answer silly prompts with ridiculous answers. Its final round perhaps isn't as strong as Quiplash 2 but is still a hit. Champ'd Up is an incredibly creative take on the classic drawing game formula. This time, you're drawing fighters to go up against one another for random events. It's a fresh take that works well. Blather 'Round is an excellent guessing game too.

Talking Points and The Devils And The Details are probably the weakest in the pack but are still entertaining. Talking Points works best with an outgoing group, eager to give ridiculous presentations. The Devils And The Details can get very chaotic with too many players shouting over one another, but it is a great cooperative experience if you can overcome that. Each game is worth playing.

4 The Jackbox Party Pack 9

The jackbox party pack 9.

The Jackbox Party Pack 9 is the 2022 release for the series. It certainly proves that the franchise has not got stale. It is full of great entries . Even the weaker games of the pack are still delightful.

Quixort is the big highlight , splitting your group into teams to organize trivia questions into a timeline. The prompts are intriguing and will ensure plenty of discussions across the teams. Roomerang is like an extended Quiplash that benefits greatly if your group gets into character as reality tv stars. Fibbage is always a classic, and the fourth entry builds upon this in creative ways. Nonsensory is Jackbox's version of the Wavelength board game, but the addition of drawing rounds adds a silly layer of chaos.

Junktopia is probably the weakest entry of the pack , as you attempt to create ridiculous backstories for pieces of junk. With a creative group, you'll still have a laugh, but it feels a bit limited in scope. With this pack, you might not be blown away, but you'll still be in for a fantastic experience .

3 The Jackbox Party Pack 2

The jackbox party pack 2.

This pack has many creative games to play, such as the hectic Bomb Corp. This cooperative game offers a fun challenge that will have you all in a flustered state, but it's incredibly satisfying to pass each level.

There is the return of more lies with Fibbage 2. Earwax has you voting on ridiculous sound effects. Bidiots has you competing in an auction over your drawings. Finally, Quiplash XL offers a vast collection of hilarious prompts. There isn't a miss with this pack . All five games are a lot of fun. Simple concepts that will have everyone laughing throughout .

2 The Jackbox Party Pack 8

The jackbox party pack 8.

This Party Pack has some of the best Jackbox games to try. Once again, there is not a single flop in this pack . Drawful: Animate gives a unique twist to the Drawful series but remains a simple, entertaining game. Weapons Drawn is for those who want a more intriguing, complex game that is still easy to grasp after one round. Weapons Drawn is the standout game from this pack.

The Wheel Of Enormous Proportions is silly fun, with plenty of fast-paced trivia involved. Job Job allows you to give ridiculous answers to interview questions. The Poll Mine is a fantastic team game that will get everyone talking. Jackbox Party Pack 8 has a lot of variety, is full of hilarious situations, and is one of the best Jackbox Party Packs to get .

1 The Jackbox Party Pack 3

The jackbox party pack 3.

The third pack in the series offers some of the funniest game modes. Quiplash 2 is the best version of the Quiplash series. It has a great final round that provides a lot of variety, with acronyms and comic strip prompts. You have trivia covered with the creepy but hilarious Trivia Murder Party.

For Drawing, you get Tee K.O. The best drawing game of all the packs, as you compete to be hailed the ultimate t-shirt designer. Guesspionage is an interesting one for strange statistics, and Fakin' It is a fun bluffing game that has you looking away from your screen for once.

The Jackbox Party Pack 3 has a wonderful selection of games, having something for everyone to enjoy . Trivia. Drawing. Deception. Guessing. Comedy. It has it all. They are all fast-paced games, silly and lighthearted, and will have your group eager for round after round . This is the best Jackbox Party Pack in a very close competition.

NEXT: All Jackbox Trivia Minigames, Ranked

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Fun party games have iffy content that can be filtered out.

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What you will—and won't—find in this game.

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Positive Messages

Competitive and cooperative play encourages a friendly social gaming experience, creativity, and confidence in public speaking.

Positive Role Models

There aren't any traditional characters, but narrators both encourage and tease players.

Ease of Play

All instructions are provided on screen. Players typically don't need to do anything more complicated than tap out words and doodle drawings.

Violence & Scariness

Players don't participate in any acts of violence, though game content (questions and activities) occasionally reference violence and death, and players will see photos of subjects such as skeletons and people screaming.

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide.

Sex, Romance & Nudity

Some questions and activities make passing reference to dating and romance (nothing explicit), but players can avoid this content by switching to family friendly mode in the settings menu.

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Sex, Romance & Nudity in your kid's entertainment guide.

User-created content may contain inappropriate language, but a censor option in the settings menu allows players to filter both profanity and hate speech.

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide.

Products & Purchases

Some activities incidentally reference familiar brands, music, movies, and celebrities without intention to promote them. This is the latest chapter in the Jackbox Party Pack franchise.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Game content references the use of controlled substances -- such as asking questions about drunkenness -- without promoting use of these substances.

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.

Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know The Jackbox Party Pack 7 is a compilation of party games for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Windows PCs. This is the latest chapter in the Jackbox series. Gameplay involves answering questions, improvisational public speaking, drawing pictures, and creating your own content. Some activities include iffy language and reference more grown-up subjects -- including dating and drunkenness -- but parents can activate an option in the settings menu that suppresses potentially inappropriate content. You can also turn on a language filter that pre-emptively censors profanity and words associated with hate speech from any user-generated content. Some activities include references to brands, music, celebrities, and other pop culture subjects, but without intention to promote or sell anything. Parents should also be aware that each player must have their own handheld device (phone, tablet, etc.) to play.

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What’s It About?

The JACKBOX PARTY PACK 7 continues along the well-worn path established by its predecessors , providing a handful of games and activities for groups of three or more players. Each player needs a handheld device (phone, tablet, etc.) with a web browser. Once a game has been chosen, a four letter code is provided that players must enter on the jackbox.tv website in order to join the game on their device. The games are designed to inspire creativity and funny interactions between players. For example, Blather 'Round sees one player selecting words from a limited, random list in an attempt to provide useful hints to the rest of the group to help them guess a subject from pop culture, such as Tinkerbell or Game of Thrones. Quiplash 3 involves filling in blanks in simple sentences to make them funny, then having the rest of the group vote on which is wittiest. Talking Points has players ad-libbing a presentation with pictures and a handful of talking points based on topics created by other players. A cooperative game called The Devils and the Details is probably the most complex of the bunch, with players taking on the roles of a family of cartoon devils attempting to live like humans. Each player tries to earn points for the team by selecting tasks that may involve memory, tapping and swiping on cue, or verbally cooperating with other players. The fifth and final game, Champ'd Up, makes players draw simple little characters on their screens using their fingers, then pits the drawings in competition with each other to vie for made-up titles, such as Most Intimidating. Each game is quick, self-contained, and has content settings that allow players to filter out any content that might be considered inappropriate for younger players.

Is It Any Good?

If you've any experience with the prolific Jackbox franchise, you know what you're in for here. Jackbox Party Pack 7 is good fun, especially in larger groups. So long as you possess a slight knowledge of pop culture and aren't afraid of making a bit of a fool of yourself, you'll have a decent shot at winning. Quiplash 3 makes for a great entry point, requiring players to do little more than come up with funny words to fill in blanks. It also has a creation mode that allows players to create their own quips -- which can be especially fun if players take the time to personalize content for the group. Even The Devils and the Details, which can be a bit confusing as players attempt to talk over each other to provide help to one another on timed tasks (this is part of the fun), doesn't take much longer than a quick game or two to understand and begin enjoying.

Some activities may turn off more timid players, though. Talking Points basically makes a game out of the office presentations many adults are used to giving at work by forcing them to speak aloud to the group, making up jokes on the spot based on random images and topics. Shy players may, understandably, choose to opt out. Champ'd Up, meanwhile, risks hurting the feelings of some players -- especially younger ones -- if their drawings aren't voted the best. Still, you always have the option to avoid the games that might not fit with a particular group of players. If you want to entertain a large and/or disparate group of people with some quick, easy-to-learn games that encourage social interaction and help to break the ice, The Jackbox Party Pack 7 is a pretty safe bet.

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Families can talk about screen time . The Jackbox Party Pack 7 is broken into a handful of relatively short games played with friends and family, so how long do you and your fellow players typically play before taking a break or moving on to something else?

The Jackbox Party Pack 7 includes a game that forces players to ad lib slideshow presentations, but did this game make you nervous? Did you start to feel more comfortable as it went on and you became used to speaking in front of your fellow players?

Game Details

Platforms : Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , Windows , Xbox One
Pricing structure : Paid
Available online? : Available online
Publisher : Jackbox Games, Inc.
Release date : October 15, 2020
Genre : Party
ESRB rating : T for Sexual Themes, Fantasy Violence, Crude Humor, Drug Reference
Last updated : January 16, 2022

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The 7th Jackbox Party Pack Is the First Perfect Pack

The Jackbox Party Packs are, collectively, a great collection of mini games that can liven up any party. Individually, though, they can often be a bit of a mess. Some of the packs have a few good games with a couple snoozers , while others have maybe one or two fun games, tops . Which is why it was a pleasant surprise to learn that the company’s latest, Jackbox Party Pack 7 , is the closest thing the company has ever had to a perfect party pack.

Quiplash is one of Jackbox’s classic games, so putting in a third version feels like a cheat to raise the pack’s average quality. However, this version does something crucial: it fixes the godawful endgame. In previous Quiplashes, players would compete to fill in prompts against each other, only for everyone to get the same prompt in the final round.

That ending is ... fine. It’s fine! But having so many answers to one prompt can drive home how difficult it is for your group to be funny. Plus, it’s over pretty quickly in something of an anti-climax. Instead, Quiplash 3 gets rid of this ending and swaps it out for a three-prompt round, where two players are pitted against each other, and can provide three answers to a prompt such as “The three steps to have a perfect little morning.” Each answer is read out one at a time, giving players more of a sense of timing and presentation to their answers. Overall it just flows better and feels more like a proper ending to the game.

To make things even better, Quiplash 3 supports user-generated packs, so if the usual stable of questions start to get boring, you can try your hand at some prompts generated by other players, usually centered around a theme. In my experience, these were hit or miss, but after playing the regular game a few times, the extra content will come in handy.

The first time I played Blather ’Round, it didn’t go well. “Ah, here we go. One of the first duds of the pack,” I thought. Fortunately, I have a general rule that I don’t give up on a game after one round, and coming back a second time paid off.

This game is a Taboo or Catch Phrase–style game, where players have to choose from a set of preexisting prompts and then have to use mad-lib style sentences to help the players guess what phrase they chose. The trick in this game is that players can’t arbitrarily choose what clues to give. If I get the phrase “Olive Garden,” I can piece together the clue “It’s where you are the crowd,” but I can’t arbitrarily write “When you’re here, you’re family.”

You can also follow up with sentences based on things your friends have already guessed, like “It’s kinda similar to Taco Bell.” Which is sort of true, I guess! And that’s where the real fun with this game comes from. Once you get into the swing of it, trying to figure out what convoluted hoops the host has to jump through to make a clue land is more fun than the game might be if you had all the freedom in the world to make up your own hints.

If there’s one game that did actually bomb (for my groups, anyway), it was The Devil and the Details. Although it seems that, much like a lot of things in 2020, it’s a victim of circumstance. In this game, players have to coordinate to accomplish tasks in the totally normal home where devils are pretending to be human.

It’s a game designed to be chaotic, forcing players to both work together, and undermine each other, which would be exactly the kind of convoluted, messy gameplay that would liven up any party ... if it could be played in person. Unfortunately, my group has been playing these games over Discord, where it’s a lot harder to direct conversations to one other person without disrupting everyone else. We tried a couple times and it fell flat, but the potential is so clearly there. Maybe someday I’ll be able to leap off the couch and run to Chris’s chair and collaborate with him to undermine Amanda, but for now it’s firmly in the “good, but we can do better” camp.

Which is still a step up from some of the other Jackbox duds.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Over the next three paragraphs, I’m going to describe to you the fascinating world of trying to explain randomized topics to a room full of people who are constantly judging you, while your presentation partner screws with your slides. That’s the set up for Talking Points, a game where you have to put on a presentation about ... whatever your colleagues decide.

The game is reminiscent of the also-great Patently Stupid, though with a lot less drawing and planning involved. Players fill in some simple prompts to generate topics that other players have to choose from to give a presentation on. Each presenter is paired with another player who will choose from some pre-set images of nonsensical graph charts to a dinosaur with a traffic cone on its head. The presenter can type or mark on the images to draw attention to whatever helps make this presentation make sense.

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All the while, the audience has a thumbs-up or thumbs-down button they can use to judge the presenter. If there’s one downside to this game, it’s that it’s easy for the audience to forget that they have a role to play while listening to the presentation. Fortunately, scores don’t really matter when you’re listening to your friends explain why you shouldn’t give into despair...you should give into melancholy instead.

Jackbox’s drawing games can be a tough sell. For certain drawing games to be fun, players either need to be really good artists ... or really bad ones. Perhaps the best Jackbox drawing game, Tee K.O., is a little outdated these days, but its biggest flaw was the set up time. It took what felt like ages for people to draw their shirts, create slogans, make matching pairs, and finally get them battling each other.

Champ’d Up balances its downtime much more effectively. Players are given a prompt along the lines of “The Champion of Good Vibes!” and they have to draw who or what they think could win such a contest. Then another player is given that drawing to create a competitor, but the trick is they don’t know what contest they’re competing in.

Not only does this make for some fantastic mixed signals, but it gives the second round of drawing an entertaining mid-prep break. Everyone sitting quietly and drawing for five minutes would be kind of a party-killer, but Champ’d Up manages to balance it’s time well. This is only driven home more when future rounds let players bring back the drawings they’ve previously used. The longer the game goes on, the more potential matchups there are with minimal extra work.

It’s small changes like this—not just to Champ’d Up, but to all of the games—that push this pack over the edge. Jackbox games are, en masse, great ways to liven up a party, but it’s rare to see one single pack that has so many bases thoroughly covered that you don’t need to buy another one to entertain a crowd for an entire night. Finally, for once, we have one.

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The Jackbox Party Pack 9 is funny, if players can put in the work – Review

Several elements make the annual Jackbox collections of games so enduring and enjoyable, and one that Jackbox Games should be proud of is the series’ accessible nature. Even for those who don’t game, Jackbox provides experiences with concepts easy to wrap one’s head around. And while The Jackbox Party Pack 9 still mostly succeeds in continuing this streak, some offerings in the 2022 title are a little less high concept.

I’m always lucky to be testing these games with friends and players who are “veterans” of the Jackbox series. Even when a particular game is somewhat complicated, there are still reference points we use from previous packs to understand it — a literacy of Jackbox, almost. But looking at Fibbage 4, Junktopia, Roomerang, Nonsensory, and Quixort, I have to imagine that some casual players jumping into one of these party games might find the rules to require more brain juice than needed.

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It seems that every one of these packs needs an old standby, and The Jackbox Party Pack 9 has that in Fibbage. The popular game returns, giving weird fun facts and leaving part of it blank; players then have to input plausible-sounding lies to fill in the blank, and then guess the truth from all the options. The aesthetic is a bit random and absurdist — player icons include a moth with claws and a skull with eyeballs and feet. A new round type uses old movie clips instead of fun facts, eerily reminiscent of RiffTrax: The Game .

Fibbage: Enough About You from The Jackbox Party Pack 4 returns; once again, instead of using trivia fun facts, the prompts are based on personal questions given to the players. It’s still a great game amongst close friends or as an icebreaker. However, my sessions of Enough About You lacked the final round from the previous iteration of the game, which used to ask you for one truth and one lie. The goofy style of Fibbage 4 and some omissions from previous versions made this return somewhat inferior to its predecessor — a new for a legacy Jackbox game.

The premise of Junktopia revolves around the idea of trash as treasure; as humans who have turned into frogs, a mysterious wizard tasks you with selling strange little trinkets by coming up with names and two details about these objects. These can include quirky paintings, statues, or household objects with a twist. Players then “appraise” the products, and the player with the most money at the end wins and turns back into a human.

Much like Talking Points from The Jackbox Party Pack 7 , this is a game where verbal presentation is crucial; players can choose what order they want to present their facts and add a bit of zest to their presentation. Of course, those lacking public speaking skills or confidence can have the game do it for them, but it’s always a plus to be given opportunities to be funny for your friends. With some clever quips, a charming presentation, and foot-tapping music, Junktopia is a winner here.

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The star of this party pack is likely going to be Roomerang, Jackbox’s take on a reality television show. Each player chooses a role (i.e., “Naughty Scientist,” “Hates Mopeds”) before participating in this competitive game, where point totals are hidden from other players until the end. Each round presents players with a prompt, and they can either play up their role or use their answers to seed discord and target other players; everyone votes on the best response, and the round usually ends with a vote on who to eliminate.

Luckily, being eliminated doesn’t mean that’s the end for the player; they come back as a new character — one with the same name, albeit with one vowel changed. Despite the host’s uncomfortable post-modern painting look, the characters are pretty adorable, especially when they return after elimination with extra headgear, i.e., a hat or cat ears. It’s hard to recall the last Jackbox game that had this level of role-playing, and it easily became the repeat favorite of the pack amongst my friends.

Featuring an unsettling 3D-rendered monkey named Professor Nanners, who looks like something from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron , Nonsensory is an intriguing premise with an execution that led to some head-scratching. It’s difficult to verbalize — the tutorial even has player participation, something I’m not used to in Jackbox — but this game depends on your ability to understand how your fellow players will respond to certain prompts.

For example, the game might ask a player to come up with a movie title, based on that fictional movie’s chance of winning Best Picture at the Oscars. I wrote “Titanic: Back 2 the Surface” (admittedly stolen from a classic YouTube parody trailer) since the prompt asked for a title with a 100% chance of winning that award. Players are then prompted to guess the probability of it winning Best Picture; some might take “Titanic 2” as Oscar bait that will definitely win (which is what I was going for), and others will interpret it as a trite attempt to capture lightning in a bottle twice and vote for a lower number. Basically, you have to be able to read minds to know what other players were going for, if they even understood what they were supposed to write in the first place.

Finally, there’s Quixort, a game that I will make a bizarre argument about — I think it plays far too much like an actual video game. Think of this as Tetris mixed with trivia, if you had to give trivia answers in a contrived manner. Players will split up into teams of two; teams will alternate voting on a topic, and each player on the team will take turns dropping blocks and putting items in the right order. One instance had a team putting the lyrics of The Golden Girls theme song from start to finish. Good luck with that one if you’re below a certain age.

It’s really the luck of the draw, and the idea of stacking and ordering these blocks seems like an unnecessary way to turn these prompts into something more interactive. Not to mention, the other team not playing in a round simply interacts with a clicker on their phone to prevent it from going to sleep, which is maybe the laziest thing I’ve seen in a Jackbox game. Perhaps Quixort would work better as its own separate game, with some expansion. But as part of a larger collection, it may go the way of the forgotten interactive action game Zeeple Dome from the fifth pack.

The verdict

If you’ve played the bulk of the previous Jackbox games, and you are down to roleplay, make your friends laugh, speak up, think hard, and take your time, then The Jackbox Party Pack 9 should have at least a few games to engage you. There’s still fun to be had from these titles, and having one or two favorites while never touching the other games is pretty standard for each pack. But it’s certainly not a starter pack for new players or family members who may have never touched a game before. Maybe stick to Scene It? with those folks.

Final Score:

Gamepur team received a PC code for the purpose of this review.

These Design Principles Made Jackbox a Party Game Phenomenon

Jackbox games are all variations on a theme. That’s no accident.

On New Year’s Eve, my siblings and I wanted to do something fun with our parents. We couldn’t agree on what movie to watch, and a card game for that many people didn’t seem feasible. So I proposed we play The Jackbox Party Pack .

My suggestion was met with blank stares.

For the uninitiated: The Jackbox Party Pack is a bundle of virtual parlor games. Each player’s phone acts as a controller, with shared information displayed on a screen everyone can see. Cheeky voiceover narration and zany animations guide players through games, which involve trivia questions, word guessing and picture drawing. When you play a Jackbox game, winning is secondary; the true objective is to get the group to laugh.

Eventually, my family agreed to give the game a shot. Within a half hour, we were all smiling and laughing. Even my parents.

In the wake of pandemic lockdown, the popularity of Jackbox Games has reached new heights.

The Jackbox Party Pack series has been enjoying a steady six-year run. But in the wake of pandemic lockdown — and the resulting uptick of social gaming — its popularity has reached new heights. Traffic to the games’ servers is surging . Celebrities are streaming themselves playing.

The mass-market accessibility of Jackbox is there by design. The Jackbox Games studio crafted a tried-and-true game-design formula — it relies on a playbook, called “The Jack Principles,” outlining its design philosophy — and stripped down its games to have as little friction as possible, lowering the barrier to entry so that even my septuagenarian parents can enjoy them.

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The Phone as Controller

The immediate differentiator between Jackbox and other games is the form factor: Players gather around a main screen, and each uses their personal smartphone as a controller. They punch in a shared room code on a web page and are immediately connected. There’s no additional app for each player to download, no gaming peripherals required.

The phone-as-controller set-up limits what Jackbox can do in some respects (you can’t feasibly cram a dozen buttons and replicate a joystick on an iPhone). But there are some creative mechanisms that the constrictions help to unlock. For example: The game can send each player’s phone unique information that only they can see.

In the game Push the Button , two random players are assigned to be aliens disguised as astronauts. Their job is to sabotage the crew and survive. The remaining players are astronauts, and they’re tasked with exposing the identities of the moles before time runs out.

The game asks players inhabiting the two roles to answer a slightly different set of personal questions via phone. Then, everyone’s answers are broadcast on the shared screen, and based on the apparent strangeness of answers, people try to figure out who’s an alien. This inevitably leads to finger pointing and social deduction. And it only works because specific instructions can be sent privately to different players’ devices.

“You can’t do that on the PlayStation controller, because you can’t assign player roles like that,” Chase McClure, senior software engineer at Jackbox Games, told me. “That’s just the kind of game that only works on a phone.”

McClure, whose background is in UX, was hired by Jackbox Games in 2019 to be an “advocate” for the phone. He said the studio has found a go-to formula for everything the phone-as-controller can accomplish without overwhelming the user.

First, the Jackbox phone controller has a limited pool of components — the user can draw, choose between a collection of buttons, or input text.

“We try to keep it pretty simple,” McClure said.

“We try to keep it pretty simple.”

Limiting the number of ways in which players can interact helps them get the hang of the games pretty quickly. Once the user plays a few, they have essentially learned how to play all of them — even if the plot, animation and tone of each new game feels different.

McClure added that the studio still likes to consider new ways in which it might be able to advance the controller’s capabilities even further.

“We have a ton of ideas on if we could use motion controls, like if we could use the [phone’s] gyroscope, or if we could use the camera,” he said.

Ultimately, he said, Jackbox Games doesn’t want to alienate players who don’t have the latest and greatest smartphones. Their aim is to create games that just about anyone with a phone and an internet connection can experience.

How to Make a Game Fun and Easy

Since its early days, the Jackbox Games studio wanted its games to have the broad appeal of Seinfeld .

“That means keeping the interface really simplified,” Allard Laban, Jackbox’s chief creative officer, told me. “If I find it difficult, then, you know, my aunt’s going to find it very difficult, so let’s get it at least dumb enough for me to understand so I can actually interact with it.”

To keep things streamlined, the team’s designers take guidance from “The Jack Principles”: a document written by Harry Gottlieb, the company’s founder. The secret sauce, according to the document, is the creation of an “Interactive Conversation Interface” — meaning, basically, that designers should generate the feeling that there’s a real-life host talking to the players, pulling them along. This is what Jackbox Games aim for.

They achieve that vision by heeding three overarching principles:

Maintain pacing — limit the user’s choices, give them one task at a time, make sure they always know what to do next, make them aware that the program is waiting for them, make their inputs as efficient as possible.
Create the illusion of awareness — respond to the user’s specific choices with human intelligence and emotion.
Maintain the illusion of awareness — use dialogue to convey intimacy, and have the game act appropriately based on what users are doing.

“We’re pretty well steeped in these principles,” Laban said.

He said the key to designing intuitive games is simple interactivity: The games never ask players to make multiple choices in a given moment; it’s always either pick an answer, draw a picture, or enter a word or phrase.

“We pace that out as part of the gameplay,” Laban said. “The games are kind of constructed in a way where we pull you along, and you’ve got something to do, and we will react to it, but it’s not [a stressful experience] where you’re juggling a lot of different things at the same time.”

The game Quiplash , for example, begins by giving each player two prompts on their phone to which they’re supposed to provide a funny answer. Then, players who received the same prompts are pitted against each other, with the remaining players voting for their favorites. In the final round, every player is given the same prompt, and everybody votes for their top three. The player who ends with the most points wins.

The game sounds awfully plain when explained in clinical terms like this, but in practice, it’s a ton of fun.

“We’ve developed this as one product, and we’re constantly burnishing new facets on it.”

There’s another component to the party pack’s design: While the game experience is immersive , it isn’t actually all that interactive (compared to the average video game, at least). That’s why a person who’s never played a video game, but grew up watching television, can still pick up Jackbox pretty quickly. The games draw on the language of TV — elements like narrative timing, transitions and dialogue.

Laban explained this to me: “When you’re playing a game with your 70-year-old parents, they’re tuned in because we’re speaking media language to that. We’re kind of doing timing and pacing that they might expect from a TV show. But they have a small amount of interaction, and they’re like, ‘Oh, I have to do something now because the man on the TV wants me to do something,’” he said. “It’s kind of this weird hybrid of passive and active media.”

Early successful Jackbox games gave the studio a blueprint for what structures resonate with users. For the most part, new Jackbox games are extensions, remixes or inversions of the studio’s earlier games. Drawful is Fibbage but with drawing. Joke Boat is an evolved Quiplash . Push the Button is Fakin’ It with a few added twists. The thing is, though, these similarities don’t really register at a conscious level.

“It all comes down to: It’s a Jackbox-type game,” Laban said. “I always think of the technology that we’ve developed for this [as] one product, and we’re constantly burnishing new facets on it.”

Testing, Playing, Iterating

At any given point in time, Jackbox Games has a backlog of about 50 game concepts to choose from. The team talks and argues and tests and eventually picks the five it wants to build into a pack.

Most of the time, a game starts as somebody’s silly concept, or a unique spin on a traditional party game. Then they’ll sketch it out on paper and distribute it to other team members.

“It’s a big part of the daily culture at Jackbox, which is, ‘I’ve got a dumb idea,’” Laban said. “We paper-test everything initially.”

It’s often as simple as a slip of paper with fill-in-the-blank prompts. (“We have a cutting board that gets a lot of use at the office,” Laban said.) Others quickly prototype crude versions of their game on the Jackbox engine.

Then they play, play, play. Team members are often lured in with pizza to play-test games during lunch. Sometimes it’s three players. Other times it’s eight. (They need to make sure the game is fun for various group sizes.) After playing, they’ll discuss what works and what doesn’t, and walk through the emotions they felt while playing. Then, they’ll iterate on the game, and try it out again the next week. This process can last for months.

Jackbox also relies on external testers. The company has a list of people it brings in to play in-development games, whom they’ll survey. The studio’s designers also keenly watch Twitch streamers. They listen for laughter — and frustrations.

“The directors and designers try not to take prescriptive notes from the players and the testers, because everyone ’ s got opinions about how things should be done,” Laban said. “It’s mostly trying to solve frustrations or general bigger ideas, [such as] ‘I wish there was a feature that would do this.’ Those types of prescriptive notes are interesting, but they usually point to a bigger problem. Like, why are people asking for that feature? It’s a matter of observing and playing.”

“We’re always coming up with a different take, but still try to hit similar emotions.”

These days, Laban and the rest of Jackbox Games’ designers are rarely surprised by user feedback about their games. They have a pretty good idea of what pacing and rhythm works. They have a firm handle on how much time to allot players to input their answers. Their job is to see how far they can push the boundaries of the form, and what new directions they can take game concepts in without deviating too far from the principles they know work.

“We’re always coming up with a different take, but it’s still trying to hit similar emotions. And most of those emotions have to do with laughing, having a good time, making stupid jokes and making your friends laugh,” Laban said. “There’s nothing more gratifying.”

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Jackbox 10 is a perfectly good entry into the series, with the majority of the games within it being "good" and not all that stand out. It can certainly lighten the mood of any party or social gathering, but it won't elevate it in the same way that previous Jackbox games might. Tee K.O. 2 and FixyText are the standouts, with the other three games being just alright. Taking all the previous scores adds up to a total of 7/10. This year's Party Pack is undoubtedly an acceptable entry in the Jackbox franchise, but it won't hit the same peaks as the previous games would.

K.O. 2 fixed most of the flaws from the original game
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Occasionally there are a few bugs that break the game
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If you’re someone who plays a bunch of multiplayer games with your friends and family, you’ve definitely heard of the Jackbox Party Pack series before.

It’s a series consisting of compilations of five smaller games to make a well-rounded package of fun times that can be played with around 1-8 players or, in some cases, much more by using the audience feature.

These games usually have somewhat consistent genres, namely, a drawing game, a writing game, and a trivia game, with the other two being more interchangeable.

Still, there’s usually a hidden role game (the best ones) or a presentation game. These are all fun and make for incredible games to put on at an event, and the ones within Party Pack 10 are no exception.

Within this pack, we have the typical three, on top of a hidden role game and a rhythm game (which sounds like a bad idea, but let’s hear them out). As always, only one person needs to buy the game, and the rest can use their phone or the web browser on their computer. This is the tenth Jackbox game, and with the price increase up to $35, it’s got a hell of a lot to live up to.

This review will go much differently from the other reviews on Indie Game Culture. Instead of going for specific aspects of the game (i.e. Visuals, Sound Design, etc.)

I’m going to be individually ranking each game on a scale of 0-2, 0 meaning the game will barely get played even if the pack is on, 1 being a fine party game but nothing to jump for, and 2 being a great party game that is worth booting up the entire pack for. Let’s dive into Indie Game Culture’s Jackbox Party Pack 10 review.

Rating: 2/2

Player Count: 3-8

This game is peak; I take no other answers. Tee K.O., the iconic classic from Jackbox 3 with some of the most hype presentation ever, finally gets its sequel, and it’s fixed almost every flaw in the original game and topped just about everything its predecessor did.

It’s still about drawing silly tee shirts with funny catchphrases, and this time, you get the addition of the marker, undo, and eraser tools from Champ’d Up, with the game offering you prompt ideas for when you don’t know what to draw.

The basic structure of drawing a few potentially quality things, writing a few hopefully funny things, and then combining the drawings and slogans your friends made hasn’t changed much.

However, you do get to modify any previous drawings (I have never seen anyone opt not to do this) in the second round now, as well as the final round consisting of mashing as hard as possible for the shirt you liked most.

The most glaring issue from the first game still present here is the scoring system. You’re actively rewarded for making bad art and slogans since you’re not using it (outside of the second round), but that isn’t fun.

The person making the shirt is the only one getting points; you just get a little mention at the end, and that’s it. Regardless of that small blunder, though, Tee K.O. is hilarious and still just as fun as ever, especially with the improvements.

One unforgivable blunder made by Tee K.O. 2, though, is replacing the original characters with existing ones from all throughout Jackbox’s history. I have not met a single person who liked this change.

We all adored the original characters from the first game, and it’s so weird that they changed this. It doesn’t affect gameplay in the slightest; I want to know why they did that.

Rating: 1/2

Player Count: 1-8

This is the standard trivia game of the pack, and as it goes for almost every trivia game, it’s fine. I’m not a huge trivia buff, so bear with me on this one, but I think this game is just okay; it consists almost entirely of answering questions, asking you when something happened, and giving you a general range of what to answer.

This continues for around three questions and rounds, all following the same general format.

Unlike something like Trivia Murder Party, there’s nothing here for people who don’t like trivia, no minigames or diversions to help you catch up if you get something wrong.

There are in-between rounds that can improve your score, but to win, you have to answer more trivia; it’s just a different kind of trivia from the usual. You get something like “What is the correct answer for this era?” or “Fix the word in this sentence,” all sticking to the time-traveling theme.

It’s super chill, some pretty fun trivia, and guessing isn’t too bad since you get a range of answers and get rewarded for getting as close as possible, rather than open-ended or straightforward multiple-choice questions.

The vibes of this game are immaculate, and it’s great if you want something to relax a bit instead of the usual loud and chaotic Jackbox experience.

It’s fine. It’s chill, a tremendous wind-down game and something that people dedicating half their brain to useless fun facts will enjoy. If you hate trivia, you might still enjoy it since it’s easy to guess, and the losing players get hints.

Bonus points for the creative final round, making you say when something in the future will happen, almost always on the 100th anniversary of something, which is just a more creative way to word the standard questions.

This is the writing game of the pack, and man, it’s so good, guys. The premise is pretty simple: write a response to an awkward text that you can choose from several categories.

However, you and 1-3 other players are editing the text simultaneously like you’re all on the same Google Doc, and you can’t delete anything that anyone has typed; you just add more.

This simple concept continues across a few messages, and each team swaps off each message. The opposing team will choose their favorite words, and the person (or people) who wrote them will be rewarded with points.

I don’t think the points matter too much since just seeing what chaotic amalgamation of terribly spelled words is more than enough entertainment, and it’s potentially the most entertainment I’ve seen from a Jackbox game in a while.

You tend to win the better you are at making chaotic and unhinged posts on social media, so this is like getting fed the wildest things you’ll ever see on your timeline, but with a million hilarious spelling errors.

The game will also reward scores to both players if you co-authored a word with someone else, which is a super nice addition, considering some of the best things in this game are word amalgamates that are hilarious when said by the text-to-speech reader.

The only issue I had with the game was having to wait quite a bit for the other team to finish writing, and it occasionally started breaking and not putting everything my team wrote on the screen.

We wrote at least 50 words, and the only thing that came through was “an.” When functioning, though, FixyText is a great reason to get this pack; it’s honestly just as funny as Job Job for my fellow broken English enjoyers.

Player Count: 1-9

This is the unique game of the pack, going completely non-traditional with a very competent Rhythm game within Jackbox. This means we don’t have a traditional presentation game, though Tee K.O. and FixyText have presentation elements, so I don’t mind.

This game has a ton of content to go through, and for me, personally, the main problem is that it is, in fact, a Rhythm game within Jackbox.

Phones aren’t great at delivering many inputs fast, and mashing keyboard buttons to play a Rhythm game isn’t great either.

It still works fine, and it’s crazy that they developed a way to play this without latency rearing its ugly head, but if you don’t like Rhythm games, then this will not appeal to you at all; there is nothing else here. And people who want Rhythm games probably already have plenty to play, so what’s the point?

Frankly, it’s funny and is more “content” than is typical for Jackbox. You get a Rhythm game you can focus on and try to do well at, and then you can hear everyone’s efforts combining to make a beautiful symphony or a chaotic mess. It’s neat.

Also, this is the extremely rare co-op and non-competitive Jackbox game, and it’s pretty satisfying and especially great if you want to play one thing for a long session.

That said, there are a ton of songs; it’s fun hearing your and your friends’ parts being played in multiplayer, and for some reason, this and TimeJinx can be played in singleplayer if you’re some kind of weirdo who’s into playing Jackbox by yourself, god that sounds depressing. This is definitely a super niche game, but if you’re looking for co-op rhythm games, this is for you.

Player Count: 4-8

Taking the place of the Hidden Role game of this back, Hypnotorious is a unique concept that I think needed much more time in the oven.

You and 3-7 others get hypnotized into believing you’re something, whether an object, person, or location, and you have to answer three questions from the perspective of that thing. While charades are almost always fun, the twist this game adds is… Meh.

One player is in a category of things all to themselves, while the others are in one or two different categories. Naturally, the players have to identify the odd one out, give their answers, and sort themselves out into jars.

However, the odd one out does not know that they’re the impostor in this scenario but still gets points if they, somehow, gaslight everyone and themselves and are coincidentally correct.

This leads to something between the energy of Push the Button and Fakin’ it. You’re still actively accusing others and yelling, but the fact that no one knows who anyone else is leads to everyone just being kinda confused and calmer than usual.

Every time I’ve played this, the impostor just gave up and conceded to being the odd one out because there’s not much point in arguing if you don’t even know the argument is correct.

I think this is the weakest hidden role game Jackbox has ever put out. Don’t get me wrong, that’s still a high bar to clear, but being unable to strategize, troll, or actively deceive others by the skin of your teeth is… Weird.

I also wish the categories could be chosen because we often got people or things none of us knew about, meaning the game would be impossible without Googling things. It’s not bad by any means; it’s just that Push the Button and Fakin’ It are way way way better.

If you’re looking for something other than this party pack for your friend gathering needs, I have several recommendations on some great party games, including other party packs that are more consistent in quality.

Jackbox Party Packs 3, 6, and 7 are the easiest three games to recommend, in my opinion. They contain absolute bangers like Trivia Murder Party, Quiplash, Push the Button, Talking Points, and Champ’d Up, and in my opinion, are more consistently fun times and are worth pulling out at any decent gathering of people.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is similar to Mario Maker but takes a much more chaotic and multiplayer-centric take on the idea, having you build levels while playing them and competing against your friends to win. This is it if you want something with more meat on its bones.
Overcooked is a chaotic cooking simulator where you try to manage a restaurant’s constant flow of orders while also having to play around with the other cooks in the kitchen. It’s a fun time if you want something easily understandable that can get all your friends yelling at the screen.

The Verdict – 7/10

It’s hard to live up to 3 or 7, but the fact that three still has an excellent version of Tee K.O. on top of four great games means you should only get ten if it’s your third or fourth Jackbox.

That said, it’s certainly better than most Jackbox titles, which is refreshing after Jackboxes 9 and 8 didn’t include anything notable besides Job Job. This one having two standouts is certainly a nice change of pace after two years of overall “eh” titles that wouldn’t make you the coolest person at the function.

Still, with more time, Hypnotorious and Timejinx could’ve been incredible showstoppers, and Dodo Re Mi would be what it is.

If you want an overall pretty consistent package of perfectly good party games, some single-player content to go along with it, and two titles that will get everyone in the room excited or laughing hysterically, then this one is great. Just note that while there isn’t anything quite like Jackbox, there are Jackbox games that are entirely better than this one.

Pros and Cons

Tee K.O. 2 is an unsurprising hit, fixing up most of the flaws from the beloved original.
FixyText is a surprising banger, offering easily understandable hilarity anyone can enjoy.
The overall pack is consistently quality, with incredible visuals and sound design as usual, and no “bad” games in the collection.
Timejinx and Hypnotorious could’ve used some extra time; one feels alienating, and the other feels underbaked.
Dodo Re Mi is probably the best it could be, but a rhythm game in Jackbox isn’t the best idea to begin with.
There are still quite a few minor annoyances and bugs that can occasionally break the game.

Questions and Answers

Answer: Tee K.O. 2, the T-shirt tournament game. Timejinx, the time-traveling trivia game. FixyText, the hilarious text response game. Dodo Re Mi, the cooperative rhythm game. And Hypnotorious, the hidden role game of charades.

Answer: As with every Party Pack, this one was simultaneously released on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. So, pretty much everything.

Answer: Most games go up to 8 players, aside from Dodo Re Mi, which goes up to 9. As always, you can have an absolutely massive amount of players join using the Audience feature.

I played Jackbox 10 for around 10 hours, usually in groups of 3-6 people; as usual, it was more fun with more people, and as usual, it works perfectly on Steam Deck.

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What is "Jackbox Games"? Jackbox Games is the party game-making studio best known for hit games like YOU DON’T KNOW JACK, Quiplash, Fibbage, Drawful, Trivia Murder Party , and more! Think of us as the child of classic social games like charades… the child who dropped out of college, then earned the family’s respect by founding a jam company.

What is a Party Pack? We make a variety of games designed to appeal to everyone in the convention hall, Zoom call, or livestream. Drawing games, writing games, trivia games, hidden identity games… no event attendee gets left behind.

Every year since 2014, we’ve released a new collection of games, grouped together as a Jackbox Party Pack. In each pack, you’ll find 5 different games that can accommodate from 1-8 players. If you have more people in your group, many of our games allow audience play-along, meaning they can still jump in and be part of the fun!

What makes Jackbox easy to play? All your players need is a smartphone or web-enabled device! There is no app or additional purchase needed in order for them to play. They only need a mobile device; a way to access the internet; and to be able to see the screen running the game. This makes Jackbox games a great option if you're looking for something ineractive to engage large groups.

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We have a variety of tutorials and resources to help set your event up for success.

Jackbox Games titles are released on a variety of digital platforms. You can run our games on PC/Mac desktops or laptops, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, iPads, Apple TV, or Amazon Fire TV. You only have to purchase our games once to be able to play them indefinitely. Only one person needs to purchase a game in order for others to join and play along too. Pricing ranges from $9.99-$29.99 per copy.

We recommend hooking your PC/Mac to a screen or projector if you have a crowd. For this reason, buying our games on Steam is the most common platform for events. Steam is a free software you can download after creating an account, and it runs our products like a charm. Learn more about Steam here . Review our system requirements here .

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Choosing Your Games

Most of our games support 1-8 players. For bigger groups, any additional players can join as an audience via a web-enabled device and take different actions to influence the outcome of the game. You can find a guide to choosing the best game for your group size here . You can learn more about our recommended games for larger groups here .

Playing Jackbox games at a virtual event is very possible: as a game host, it’s up to you to allow your remote attendees to see your game screen. This can be done with a video conference call where you share your screen, or an online live stream. We have a whole page of tips about how to get started: it’s one of those things that may require some thinking the first time, and then you’ll laugh at how easy it was. You’ll laugh, and laugh, until the neighbors grow concerned.

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Audience-Friendly Settings

Many of our titles, especially recent ones, have special settings that you can activate in the game's lobby menu before you start a round. Our games are rated T for Teen, but if you turn on the family-friendly setting , suggestive prompts and content will be filtered out of the game.

Some titles also allow for someone to join the game as a moderator to review player-created content before it appears on the screen.

Want to really make sure player-created content is as safe as possible? Turning on profanity filtering and setting it to the "Strict" setting will reject answers containing profanity.

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Every Game in Jackbox Party Pack 10 Explained

Just like its predecessors, Jackbox Party Pack 10 comes with a selection of party games to play with friends, loved ones, and so forth.

Another year means another Jackbox Party Pack , but Jackbox Party Pack 10 is special. It's in the name; this is the tenth pack to release, celebrating an anniversary of sorts for the franchise. The result is an awesome selection of games, with Tee K.O. getting a sequel that features many beloved mascots from games past and Dodo Re Mi representing the first music game to ever hit the pack.

Of course, fans are able to dive in, and one of the hardest choices is going to be what to play first and with whom. Each game offers something a little different, and that sheer variety will ensure anyone picking up Jackbox Party Pack 10 has a lot to enjoy.

How Jackbox Party Pack 10's Timejinx Stands Out From Other Trivia Games

Tee K.O. 2 is a drawing game and a sequel to the original title way back in Jackbox Party Pack 3 . In it, players must make designs with the goal being to make the funniest. After everyone has submitted their designs, as well as their slogans, players must vote gauntlet style to see which wins. The combination of slogan and design is great for humor. In improving on the original, Tee K.O. 2 includes more garments than the original like hoodies, more slogan fonts, an improved drawing interface, avatars from the past Party Packs, and a more involved final round. It's everything fans loved about the original, dialed up. On top of that, if there's a design fans want, they can order it and get it in real life too.

3-8 players

FixyText is a group word game where players collectively respond to prompts and other text messages together. There's no delete button, so every typo, shenanigan, and so forth remains. Previously, Jackbox Games has said that FixyText embodies the chaotic nature of a friend group chat , with the funniest changes winning. In a bit of synergy, it's not unusual for a slogan from Tee K.O.2. to translate to FixyText (and vice versa, with all games) for some added fun.

Trivia games are nothing new, in the Jackbox Party Pack or beyond, but Timejinx puts a fun spin on it. Players represent time travelers who must discern when certain historical events occurred. All the trivia questions deal with years of certain events, and scoring is based on how close players get. It's been compared to golf scores. If the question is about something happening in the year 1930, with one player guessing the year 1931 and the other guessing the year 1942, the first player gets 1 point and the second player gets 12 points. The player with the lowest score wins, and there are a few futuristic curveballs thrown in as well.

1-8 players

Hypnotorious

Hypnotorious is a social deduction game in the vein of Among Us , but there's a twist. The imposter, or outlier in Hypnotorious , does not know that it's their role. In this game, players are given a specific role and have to figure out where they fit in among a handful of groups. One person doesn't belong and must figure that out as well, with the results being hilarious at times. One example is someone could be given Gandalf, which could be paired with other characters with beards, characters straight up from The Lord of the Rings , or characters out of a book. If the Outlier is Tom Cruise, but they think the others in the group represent characters from books (Gandalf, Harry Potter, Alice), then they must figure that out as well.

4-8 players

Presentation-wise, Dodo Re Mi sees players become birds who are trying to avoid being eaten by a carnivorous plant. To do so, they must sing for survival, with players' phones and controllers becoming the instrument. There's also a song list players can unlock similar to Guitar Hero and Rock Band. They can play a wide variety of real and absurd instruments, including but not limited to, constant screaming, guitar, drums, a kazoo, the Lip Flipper, Taz the Cat, and more. The music is then played back for players to see who did well and who didn't, with the game also avoiding the typical round structure found in Jackbox Party Packs . Instead, players can play a round or two if they wish and move on.

1-9 players

The Jackbox Party Pack 10 is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series X|S.

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The best games in Jackbox Party Pack 9

Jackbox Party Packs have always been fun, but Party Pack 9 feels a little more special than the rest. It has one of the few most requested re-releases of all time and a ton of new games to try. The best part about this pack is how more than eight players can join every game. Nobody needs to be left out of the fun. Of course, like all Party Packs, each has its best and worst. Jackbox Party Pack 9 is no different.

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Quixort is arguably the best game of the pack. This is a trivia-sorting game where each team’s goal is to arrange falling bricks, with notable events listed on them, in the proper order before they hit the floor. While Quixort’s “trivia-sorting” premise doesn’t sound that great in theory, you and your friends will have an absolute blast if you like fun facts and internet culture. The categories are extremely creative, from “math equations whose answers are smallest to largest” to “oldest to most recent viral internet clips.” Expect a ton of arguing and the slow realization of how old you are now.

Related: Every Jackbox Party Pack Game, Ranked

Of course, no Jackbox top list would be complete without mentioning Fibbage whenever a new one is released. If you didn’t already know, Fibbage is a game where you’re given prompts and are tasked to write answers that could be the “truth.” You and your friends will then have the opportunity to guess the real truth with everyone’s answers collected, and those who find the current answers and fool the most players win the game. The prompts in Fibbage 4 are funnier and timelier than its predecessor.

What makes Fibbage 4 and other Fibbages a great game though is its Enough About You mode, which lets players guess the truth about their co-players. Fibbage 4 is a good warm up game before playing everything else in Jackbox Party Pack 9. It’s also a good icebreaker if you’ve invited new friends over to play.

Nonsensory plays very similarly to games like Drawful and Skribbl.io . It’s a guessing game where each player is given a percentage-based prompt and is expected to write or draw it to the best of their ability. After, other players will get the opportunity to guess its placement from a scale of 0% to 100%. For example, the guessee could get a prompt like “it needs to be 40% on a ‘manly’ scale” and would then need to think of an answer that best fits that. If you’re a bunch of silly creatives, this game is a ton of fun. Just look at these finger fries we’ve drawn!

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Other games in Jackbox Party Pack 9

Since the advent of Patently Stupid from Party Pack 5, Jackbox Games never forget to include a presentation game in every other Party Pack. Junktopia is Party Pack 9’s addition to the category. It tests the players’ ability to convince other players to buy literal junk and profit from it. There’s a part where you purchase and haggle your items and a second one where you’ve been allowed to sell them. It’s a fun thinking game but definitely not for everyone.

Roomerang is a reality TV game where you’re tasked to roleplay characters with predetermined traits (like a country-music lover or someone who despises the holidays). The goal is to finish assigned tasks—in character—and convince fellow players that you deserve to stay in the game. It’s a good game in theory, but players need to be a good sport and follow the rules for it to be fun. After all, there’s always an opportunity to gang up on one person and send them out of the show until the final round.

For more party game recommendations, check out Every Jackbox Party Pack 8 game, Ranked and 25 Party Games You Can Play Online With Friends – PC, PS, XB, Switch, iOS, Android on Pro Game Guides.

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The Jackbox Party Pack

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For 1-100 players! Your phones or tablets are your controllers! The team behind YOU DON’T KNOW JACK presents FIVE guffaw-inducing party games in one pack! Games include: The comedy trivia sensation YOU DON’T NOW JACK 2015 (1-4 players) with hundreds of all-new questions. The hilarious bluffing game Fibbage XL (2-8 players), with 50% more questions added to the original hit game Fibbage. The bizarre drawing game Drawful (3-8 players) - you draw right there on your phone or tablet (very little/no real skill required). The racy-as-you-want-to-be fill-in-the-blank word game Word Spud (2-8 players). The wacky-fact-filled Lie Swatter (1-100 players). Players play using their phones, tablets, or even computers as controllers – making it the perfect easy-in entertainment piece for your next game night or party. Once a game is started from the in-pack menu, players simply connect to the “jackbox.tv” web address on their device and then enter the on-screen room code to enter a game. No big mess of controllers needed! You’re gonna need more than one party for this. Note: The games included in this pack are in English only.

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While Joy-Con are necessary to navigate the in-game menus, it is not possible to play through any of the games, other than YOU DON'T KNOW JACK, in the Jackbox Party Pack using Joy-Con. In order to play, users are required to connect additional devices (such as smart phones, tablets, computers, etc.) as controllers via a website called Jackbox.tv. Any device that has a web browser supporting websockets and HTML 5 may work as a controller for the game. Internet connection required during play.

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