TheJackboxPartyPack9 brings five new party games, but two in particular steal the show.
The Jackbox Party Pack series went from a fun party series to an institution almost overnight. Before 2020, it was a fun collection of minigames that worked wonders as a social icebreaker. It became a much bigger phenomenon in the isolation phase of the COVID-19 pandemic though, as it proved it could keep friends, family, and co-workers united even from afar. Jackbox Games has only pushed the momentum since then, pumping out annual installments full of comedic potential.
Keeping it simple Of the five minigames featured, two particularly stand out. The first is Quixort, which is one of the series’ most intuitive inventions. Here, players are split into two teams and must compete in a sorting competition. A round begins when a team picks a category, choosing either a purposefully confusing prompt or a mystery option. Once selected, teams are given a clear prompt that’ll require them to place different words and phrases in the correct order.
Of the new games, I’m most impressed by Nonsensory. The game revolves around a scale that goes from 0% to 100% or one to 10. Players are given different prompts that have them write answers and draw pictures based on how they’d rank on that scale. For instance, a player may be asked to draw a robot disguising itself as a human — but their costume is only 30% effective. Based on the answers, other players have to guess the correct percentage to nab points.
Other games are a bit more complicated, which may make this pack a mixed bag in casual settings. Junktopia, for example, has players buying items from a pawn shop and writing silly backstories for them. Of all the games, it’s the one that seems like it’ll live and die by a player’s ability to spin up a complex joke on the fly. The game show-like Roomerang is even more involved, as players have to roleplay as a specific character and answer questions as them.
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