![]() ![]() The game has us drawing t-shirt designs and creating slogans, before everything is mixed up and we need to connect two from among all the entries. Though this edition of the JBPP doesn’t include the sketch-based Drawful, it does include the novel creativity-based Tee K.O. It’s actually kind of charming, if you like escape rooms. This is done by answering more questions than them, so the heat remains on the survivor to actually try to answer correctly.Īll of this is represented as a sort of sock puppet doll house, with players taking the roll of dolls (and eventually ghosts), flashing lights and a “spooky” atmosphere. ![]() Trivia Murder Party is a standard-fare trivia game, but one in which players can “die” along the way. Answering incorrectly enough times transforms us into a ghost, which, during the final round, requires us to chase the survivor before they escape the house. It’s a bit diabolical, but that’s part of the joy of the experience. I purposefully go to the edge of what I think my limit is, in hopes that others will over- or under-shoot the total and miss points. As percentage-based trivia questions pop up and one person answers, the remaining try to determine if his or her answer is lower or higher than the actual amount. Possibly our favorite of the games to play, Guesspionage plays a bit like Family Feud but with a little sabotage thrown in. It’s also the best of the bunch with the full eight in-room players, since the speed of the game is conducive to chaos. This is clearly the star of the package, as it’ll probably get the most play time and works great with streaming/Twitch. It’s a bit like Cards Against Humanity in enabling creativity, although with my set of friends that quickly turns into sex jokes with every elderly-related prompt. The game asks a few players to answer prompts, often resulting in some beyond crazy answers, with the remaining competitors voting for their favorite. The Party Pack comes with five games, ranging from one to eight players, that haven’t been available in other iterations sans Quiplash 2‘s standing as a sort of sequel/expansion. However we persevered, connecting the console to a mobile hotspot on a couple of the occasions and realizing this could be a way to play out on the patio or a Nintendo Switch commercial rooftop. Hooked up to home networks is easy, corporate ones a little more difficult (damn firewalls) and Tim Horton’s sometimes impossible. The Switch’s portability allows us to take it anywhere, and should we get connected to wifi we’re able to have an instant party. The game is played via mobile phones, with players entering “rooms” in their browsers and using the screens as the gamepads for up to eight players (with up to 10,000 via Twitch… yikes). Since getting our hands on the game we’ve managed to bring it to three different houses, a corporate office and a Tim Horton’s, all with smashing success (and almost a police escort out of one - don’t be too loud, kids). ![]() So when the Jackbox Party Pack 3 was released for the Nintendo Switch, I realized one thing: oh baby, I have become the Party King again. The calls stopped coming and my social popularity dropped. But all that waned as consoles became more complex and plastic peripherals disappeared. I was the guy who lugged around his Guitar Hero/Rock Band/Dance Central kits to people’s abodes just to keep the party going. It isn’t exactly easy to pack up a console and take it to a friend’s home for party gaming, let alone one where setup time and TV HDMI inputs are an issue. Though it released on other platforms last year, one of the biggest (and only, really) issues with the latest edition in the Jackbox series is that it’s confined to one house. Not since we discovered that putting alcohol in Jello did a party combination feel as right as the Jackbox Party Pack 3 coming to Nintendo Switch does. ![]()
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