The Jackbox game series is filled with great multiplayer fun no matter your platform. Here’s the best and most fun Jackbox mini-games, ranked.
Hosting bundles of zany party and trivia games, the Jackbox Party Packs offer tons of fun, hilarious multiplayer romps for (almost) all ages. Debuting in 2015, these compilations allow gamers to use their phone as their controller and answer device; a seamless method that was ahead of its time. Jackbox Games, formally Jellyvision, is no stranger to these types of wild social games.
Despite their modernized sensibilities that stress mobile gaming and streaming, their cheeky trivia romp known as You Don’t Know Jack dates back to the ’90s on PC. Their current offerings embody this spirit, but also round things out with everything from wacky word games to collaborative bomb diffusals. There’s no shortage of amusing games to pick from — but which among them is the best?
Updated June 25, 2024 by Stephen LaGioia: After a decade of party game bundles and a vast, diverse lineup of amusing romps, Jackbox Games looks to come full circle back to their raunchier roots (somewhat), back when they were branded „Jellyvision Games“, with the more risqué and boundary-pushing Jackbox Naughty Pack.
Another recent development in this series involves a more streamlined quality-of-life upgrade for PC players of the series. Dubbed the „Megapicker“, players can now compile and more seamlessly browse the list of 50+ trivia, „fill in the blank“, and other minigames that comprise the Party Pack bundles. Still, with so many fun (and funny) games to choose from, it seemed fitting to revisit this list of the best Jackbox Party Pack games. 24 Survive The Internet
Players: 3-8
Type: Fill-in-the-blank, Comedic
Family Friendly Optional
In a clever play on the often wild, raunchy, and unpredictable nature of the internet and social media, „Survive the Internet“ brings a cheeky fill-in-the-blank game through this framework. There are shades of the comedy hit „Quiplash“ here, as players will want to end up with funny or absurd answers for others to vote on.
Though this game goes a bit deeper, using internet prompts and browser motifs to set the stage for funny, often random scenarios and questions. Also, players are given answers from other players, which they must twist in humorous ways by tacking on new blurbs — twisting them out of context for laughs.
The main angle is to supplement an already funny prompt with a fitting blurb or comment (either known or unknown) — emulating, for instance, the comment section of a news article or YouTube video. It’s a mess of trolling, humor, and bizarre statements spurred by playing off one another. Then again, this does somewhat represent the internet and social media at large. 23 Drawful: Animate
Players: 3-10
Type: Drawing, Comedic
Family Friendly Optional
Building on the foundation of the already-amusing doodling game „Drawful“, this fleshed-out version allows players to bring their sloppy drawings to life (sort of). By way of usually simple, choppy (two frame) animations hastily sketched by players and based on prompts, opponents will play off of these visuals.
This is done by coming up with a vague interpretation or „fake answer“ to what they’re seeing. Players will then conclude and pick what the animation is based on the pool of (usually silly) guesses. Points are then given to the correct answer as well as the person who made the successful drawing. However, if a popular answer is voted on (that happens to be wrong), only the writer of the answer is rewarded points. 22 Fixy Text
Players: 3-8
Type: Writing, Teamwork, Comedic
Family Friendly Optional
Perhaps the best way to describe this laugh-out-loud „word game“ is that it’s an anarchic fusion of Mab Libs and Google Docs collabs. The game rewards participants for their comedic skills a la „Quiplash“, using the far more chaotic template of collective text messages to do so.
With the backdrop of different themes or tones that include flirty or „unknown numbers“, players will craft goofy, convoluted messages by working together and filling in different text lines for one another. To ensure the resulting hodgepodge of text will be as drawn out and jumbled as ever, backspacing and deleting are not permitted.
The game then isolates each user’s particular contribution so they can get rewarded with points from others. There isn’t much to „FixyText“, though its comedy factor and mindless nature make for a good icebreaker at parties. 21 Job Job
Players: 3-10
Type: Fill-In-The-Blank, Comedic
Family Friendly Optional
Wrapped in a stuffy office job interview motif, this deceptively dry tone gives way to some hilarious party gameplay. Players are tasked with answering random questions in any manner they choose. What follows is a silly take on the „Mab Libs“ concept, as players are thrown a hodgepodge of already-used words to cobble together funny answers.
Points are then doled out according to favorite answers and the ownership of the words being used. It doesn’t quite rise to the hilarity of the fan-favorite comedy game „Quiplash“, but „Job Job“ is good for some juvenile laughs. 20 Wheel of Enormous Proportions
Players: 2-8
Type: Trivia
Family Friendly Optional
This is a creative, off-kilter trivia game that takes on more of a board game-like feel. It revolves around gathering coveted wedges, which later down the line represent the player in tense wheel spins. Players must answer questions that often involve multiple or numerical answers, matching up choices, and even writing answers with a mobile device.
