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#19





Years of release: 2014 (Pack 1), 2015 (Pack 2), 2016 (Pack 3), 2017 (Pack 4), 2018 (Pack 5), 2019 (Pack 6) (PC/PS3/PS4/360/XB1/Switch/Mobile/Apple TV?! You can get these on APPLE TV?)
Beaten?: I am the best Quiplash player on Board 8 and I'll fight you

This ranking is for all six Jackbox Party Pack games mashed together into one spot. (Drawful 2 can also be here, in spirit.)

I cheated. I'm sorry. This list is tainted.

I didn't know what to do here. The way I saw it, I had five options:

1) Rank each individual game in the Jackbox Party Packs on their own merits. This seemed really hard to do, since they're minigame collections, and those are already a thing in video gaming, anyway (it's even already a thing on MY LIST - see Game & Wario). Like, I can tell you what I think of Jackbox Party Pack 1 compared to the rest of my list well enough - but specifically judging Fibbage, or Drawful? I don't know, that just seemed really hard, and I feel like it would have made my list a huge mess. I DO have stuff to say about all these games, but it would have been repetitive.

2) Rank each individual party pack. This would be the normal thing to do, but again, it kind of messes up my list - I think each pack of games is probably good enough to get into my top 100 here, but most would be further down the list. I just didn't want to write about each pack individually. Again, I have stuff I could say, but it would get very repetitive, so I didn't do this.

3) Rank all the packs in one slot. That's cheating, kinda, but it's my list and I'll do what I want. So this is what I did.

4) Rank only my FAVORITE pack and give the rest honorable mentions. I almost did this, but I decided I was going to end up talking about the entire series anyway. If I WAS going to rank my favorite Party Pack, it would have been 3. So if you want to consider my #19 game to be Jackbox Party Pack 3, that's fine, if it helps you sleep better at night. I know the fact that I cheated on my list is very upsetting.

5) Throw all of the Jackbox Party Packs out of my list entirely and consider them to not be video games. This seemed stupid. While they do kind of occupy a space that almost feels more like board game culture than video game, they're clearly video games and I don't think anyone would argue against this. Plus, they're great, they're some of my favorite video games released this decade, and I want to talk about them. So I didn't do this.

So that's my dilemma.

We've all played these, right? I don't need to do a huge writeup about them. Every Jackbox Party Pack has become a significant staple of our board game night diet (usually at Shad's house. Yes, me and Shad play board games irl, I live 5 minutes from hise house) as well as a fixture of Board-8-playing-stuff-together-online for years. For good reason - these are just about as perfect a party game as I could ask for. I love games like this that are just about being funny and creative and having a big ol' laugh with the group. I still play them to win! I like to play them competitive and see how well I can really flex my funny-creative muscles. But it's never too competitive or stressful - I always feel like I've had a great time after playing. The Jackbox games are incredibly clever and well-designed, and the way they work with having the game on the TV and everyone playing on their phones is a work of pure genius.

Jackbox Party Pack 3 has the best overall assortment of games - Quiplash is a brilliant game with the right group of people who are funny enough to come up with good answers, Trivia Murder Party is one of the most entertaining and replayable trivia games I've ever played, Tee K.O. has had some of my biggest laughs in any of these games, Guesspionage is an underrated and fun little stats game, and Fakin' It is great if you have a real-life group to play it with, since you can't play it online. Other games I love include Fibbage, which I'm glad they released sequels of since I completely exhausted the entire list of prompts from the first game; Drawful, which I would have replace Telestrations in every family board game night if I had a device with access to Jackbox games; Mad Verse City, which is extremely fun to write funny rhymes on and hear them spoken back; and Push the Button, which is like Fakin' It but playable online and structured more like a Mafia game, which is perfectly up Board 8's alley. I like pretty much every game in the series though, aside from Lie Swatter in the first pack. Pretty much everything else is a winner, or at least playable. Bomb Corp is also great if you can get four people in real life to play it with.

It's tough to rank these among other games, but some of the times I've had playing these games have been the most memorable and fun times I've ever had, so I don't think it's dumb to rank these this high at all. All of the work that the Jackbox people went into coming up with questions, doing voice acting for them, and all of the hilarious characters and music and presentation in general that they put around it make for a really excellently produced package, so I have no doubts that they're some of my favorite games of the decade. I hope Jackbox Party Pack 7-16 rank highly on my next game of the decade list.