As the presenter does not know what slide is coming up next, there is a ton of adlibbing involved, but that’s what really makes the game shine. ![]() It’s a presentation-style game where you have one player presenting on a topic they know nothing about and another player feeding the first player new text and picture slides for their slideshow. And not just regular laughs, but the kind where you find yourself wheezing. Talking Points is the game that had the most laughs from my group. Jackbox always seems to knock it out of the park with the drawing games and Champ’d Up is no exception. This was one of the two games in the pack where my group literally couldn’t breath because we were laughing so hard at some of the drawings, and the way the game facilitates these matchups just makes it all that much better. ![]() ![]() This can create some very cool matchups and the worse your drawing skill, the funnier it becomes. You’re basically tasked with drawing something against another drawing without knowing the category that the two are competing in – only the original drawer knows the category. Every pack has a drawing game, and Champ’d Up not only expands on the drawing tools offered in the previous packs through colors choices and an undo button, but pits drawings against each other in a very cool way. Champ’d UpĬhamp’d Up ended up being my favorite game of the pack. It may not get the laughs, but it will definitely get the communication going in a chaotic fun sort of way. It can get very loud, but that’s the point of the game and I quite enjoyed the change of pace compared to the other games’ comedy-centric focus. They oftentimes require you to instruct another player, but when you have seven or so people playing at once, it quickly becomes a mess of players shouting instructions at others and trying to get everything done by the time limit. The actual tasks are divided into individual and group tasks – with the latter being where the chaos comes into play. This creates this cool dynamic where you’re both trying to help out the rest of the group while also trying to stay above the rest. However, each family member has a personal score and it can be increased by completing selfish tasks that harm the rest of the family. It plays very differently from the rest of the pack, being a co-op survival game of sorts where you each play as a member of a family trying to complete certain tasks before the end of each day. ![]() The Devils and the Details is easily one of, if not the most, chaotic games I have ever played in any of the Jackbox games. Regardless, Quiplash 3 is a solid first game for the pack and one my friends and I will be returning to. This is something you’ll see extend to the other games in the pack as well, they’ve really upped the visual side of things this time around. It’s pretty simple really, but the Jackbox team has done a great job with all the creative prompts, the visuals and music, and just the overall presentation. You basically answer a series of prompts with what you think is the funniest and best-fitting answer and those answers go up against others in a series of rounds until you get to the multi-answer finale and all the points are tallied up. It’s by no means the strongest game in the pack, but it takes the already solid Quiplash formula and delivers the best version yet. As I did with my previous Jackbox Party Pack reviews, I am going to talk about each game individually instead of doing my usual pro/con format.
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