#THE JACKBOX PARTY PACK 8 REVIEWS TV#

I’ve seen this one getting a good response online, which is why it was surprising it fell flat for us. Successful picks will see that team survive and escape the mine their characters are trapped in, while wrong answers will rob a team of life-protecting torches.

Players get separated into two teams, who then have to successfully sort out where every answer lies on the board, sometimes having to pick the top 3, or middle options, or even work from the bottom backwards. It’s kind of a take on the Family Feud poll format, where everyone ranks their preferences for a certain topic, like ‘favourite old-school desktop screensavers’, which gets tabulated by the game. The Poll Mine is a shorter game, for 2-10 players, although audience viewers can also take part. Of the games in this collection, this one definitely had us laughing the hardest. It sounds odd, but basically the more off-the-wall your players can get with their ice breaker responses, the funnier and more hilarious your jumbled answers to basic interview responses will be. Then, the words used to compose these answers are all jumbled up, and given to players as groups of random words they’re allowed to re-arrange to form answers to job interview questions. With an Office Space-like veneer of corporate parody, Job Job gets players to write statements or mini-essays in response to ‘ice breaker’ questions.

Job Job is the surprise sleeper hit of the package, for 3-10 players. It can be difficult to follow, but this one also kept everyone engaged. Players can’t qualify to win the game until they clear 20,000 points and as point rewards increase and random luck comes into play, there’s more upsets than you might otherwise expect from a trivia game. At the end of a round, everyone places their slices on the wheel and take turns spinning, with those who spread out their slices more likely to receive the plentiful points on offer if the wheel lands one of theirs. The more correct you are the more points your receive, and the most ‘slices’ you’re awarded to place on the eponymous Wheel. It’s a little overcomplicated compared to the simplicity of YDKJ, with a sentient overbearing golden wheel acting as host, asking players trivia questions with multiple correct answers. The Wheel of Enormous Proportions is a trivia game reminiscent of You Don’t Know Jack, for 2-8 players. Drawful always was fun and animating doesn’t shake up the concept so much as it just adds another opportunity for jokes that players can sneak into their images. Finally, everyone’s suggestions are shown on screen including the actual phrase, and everyone has to sniff out what was the original phrase. Later, the animations are shown to the entire party sans-phrase, and everyone has the chance to make up their own caption to describe the image. The concept is simple and easy for players to understand – everyone is given some phrases from which they have to make two-frame basic animations illustrating the concept.

Like every Party Pack released so far, the just-released Jackbox Party Pack 8 has some winners and some clunkers, but it definitely adds some new laughs for you and your mates.įirst up is Drawful: Animate, for 3-10 players, which takes the basic concept of Drawful from earlier Jackbox games and adds two frames of animation.

#THE JACKBOX PARTY PACK 8 REVIEWS TV#

Times have changed, and now The Jackbox Party Pack has become a mainstay for parties around the world, not only allowing friends to crowd around a TV playing on their phones, but also online via streaming on Twitch, YouTube or similar. I can remember the original You Don’t Know Jack releases and the slew of sequels that came after, where kids would huddle around a single computer with different keys as buzzers.

Jackbox games have been making party games I’ve enjoyed since I was a kid – they’ve been at it that long.

The jackbox party pack 8 reviews