![]() You could mistake the Jackbox offices for pretty much any office block in the country: a semi-open floor plan of desks and computers where people are quietly and diligently typing away. All of them encourage heated rivalries with your friends. Some games make you a know-it-all some games make you a comedian some games make you a liar. It’s hard to summarize your average Jackbox Party Pack game-there are 25 and counting-but the basics are roughly the same: an eclectic mix of trivia and wordplay that implicitly nudges the player to be as crass and clever as possible. That’s the annual task for the team at Jackbox Games, a company whose annual Party Pack-downloadable on computers, video-game consoles, smart TVs, and anywhere else they can make it work-has become the definitive party game of this generation. And imagine that your intended audience is, uh, everybody in the world, probably several beers deep. ![]() So imagine coming up with not one but five new party games every year. Even decades-old standbys like Charades and Pictionary and Trivial Pursuit get played out of tradition or duty-and not because they’re, you know, fun. Nothing kills a good time like thumbing through a rulebook to figure out what happens when you roll two sixes, or when your drunk uncle and his new wife get into a messy fight over whether her drawing looks more like a battery or an eggplant. ![]()
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