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#2 - Poll Mine

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Poll Mine is incredible, and in almost any other pack it probably would have been my favorite game; Poll Mine is seriously a top 5 game for me. In this one, you get a question with 8 choices, which can range from anything from fairly straightforward like "what's the best bird?" to crazier shit like "which of these gross objects found on the sidewalk would you actually use?" or "which of these presentations would be the worst to give to a kindergarten class?" Then everyone in the group ranks their top 3 (or 4, or 5) favorites, and it's up to two competing groups to debate where each one of them ranks. It's a VERY board 8 game - arguably even more board 8 than bracketeering, in my opinion, since it involves a lot of debating the strength level of each options and how likely each person was to vote for them. Most of the poll questions are REALLY good and fun to answer honestly, and then debating the right answer can be challenging and really fun to do as a group. Some people love this game, others are a bit more lukewarm on it, but I'm firmly within the 'love' camp - I want to play this one every time we play Jackbox because I love trying to guess the ranking of each poll question. It's like a better Guesspionage, really, which is somehow the second time I'm mentioning that game. Poll Mine is great, and it's absolutely part of the reason I ranked this game so high - for me, it's a must-have in the Jackbox pantheon.

But then there's Job Job.

#1 - Job Job

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The act of laughing so hard and uncontrollably that you almost can't breathe can be incredibly cathartic, and it's a feeling rarely experienced - only occasionally is something so surprisingly and profoundly funny that it snaps the wiring in the brain just right to break it momentarily. Job Job, for my money, has been the most reliable generator of this specific emotion in the past year, and it's really hard to put a price on that. This simple game of answering job interview questions basically using magnetic poetry words randomly dealt to you by other players' batshit ramblings is an absolute masterpiece of found comedy, and it so reliably has me in tears that it has immediately usurped any other Jackbox game as the GOAT Jackbox game, without a doubt. I feel like nearly every person who plays Job Job has it as one of their favorites, and even the most Job Job skeptics still tend to enjoy it. Every single time we do a Jackbox session, from now until god knows when, I will always need at least one Job Job. It's supplanted Fibbage and Quiplash as the easiest go-to. Every single session of Job Job has made me, at minimum, smile, and it's so goddamn fun to make prompts for it - it really walks the line nicely between creative participation without feeling required to generate a full joke from your own brain like Quiplash. There's just nothing like it - it's one of the most fun multiplayer gaming experiences I've ever had, and how is that not worth serious GOTY consideration? Job Job and Poll Mine, along with three other decent games, combine to make Jackbox Party Pack 8 the best Jackbox ever, in my opinion, and one of my favorite multiplayer games of all time. It absolutely belongs here.

Next up: My 2020 GOTY, and currently my #2 game in Steam playtime at 1,270 hours.