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#3 - Champ'd Up

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Champ'd Up is a solidly fun drawing game sort of in the style of Tee KO, but I prefer Tee KO, and here's why; in Tee KO, most of the humor comes from the juxtaposition of your drawing and someone else's slogan mashed together by a third person, and it's just sort of beautiful to see what shakes out of that - it doesn't really matter if your drawing is good or not. In Champ'd Up, it sort of matters if your drawing is good. I feel like it's another game that's very creatively demanding, in that if you can't draw well, then you at least have to have some really good idea for a character. I feel like I just totally strike out on this one a lot. When it hits, though, it hits.

#2 - Quiplash 3

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Having at least some variant of Quiplash in your Jackbox toolbox is an absolute requirement, as it's one of the biggest crowdpleasers on pretty much any night in most groups. That said, I wouldn't remember most of Quiplash 1 or 2's prompts by now, so either of those will usually do, which renders Quiplash 3 one of the more inessential Jackbox games out there (not to mention it has the worst music of the three). The main improvement it has is the final round, which is now questions that you answer in sets of threes, which can be really good when you do it well. It's the definitive Quiplash now, but it doesn't add much over its predecessors. (This could easily rank #1 if I wasn't taking that into account.)

#1 - Blather Round

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Easily the dark horse favorite, and I think nearly everyone agrees on this. Blather Round feels like it harkens back to actual party games that you'd pull out of the closet at a family game night, like Taboo and such. It's chill and relaxing and not a very demanding game (although guessing can be surprisingly hard sometimes), and makes for a great opener or closer to the night since it only goes up to 6, which makes it perfect for when people are filtering into the group. It's surprisingly funny; the descriptions that people have to come up with for various characters or movie titles based on the given words leads to a lot of comedy, although I sort of wish Blather Round didn't give you so many freebies if you're having trouble; there are definitely words programmed in to make it easy. Great game though - easily the most essential game to have out of the pack.

Overall, Jackbox Party Pack 7 is really solid all around, but I think for me it's one of the least essential packs; Blather Round is still one of the weaker 'best' games of any of the packs, and I feel like most of the games here I wouldn't really miss if I didn't have access to them. If I were buying all of the packs to introduce them to a brand new group of players today, 7 is probably the last or second last I would buy (I might buy 7 over 2, since it would cover the Quiplash requirement, and I like Blather Round more than Bidiots or Earwax; 4 covers Fibbage). That said, it was still really great and I liked it a lot at the time of its release; every Jackbox pack is a riot. It basically gets onto this list for free.

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