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Champ'd Up is probably my absolute favorite Jackbox game, even if you suck at drawing the potential for hilarity will always be there because comedy doesn't care about art quality.

Single-handedly makes it my favorite Jackbox despite the shitty devil game trying it's damnedest to drag it down, just not a fan of trying to talk over everyone else especially when the group is bigger.

SUMMARY:
Every game on this pack is good. Has a standard "be funny" game, a fairly hectic co-op game, a drawing game, an improv game, and a trivia game. If you're only looking to buy one pack, this is a great candidate.

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QUIPLASH 3
You get a prompt. Someone else has the same prompt. Everyone else votes on who gave the funniest answer. Pretty much the standard-bearer for Jackbox games.

Has a somewhat better final round than Quiplash 2 - instead of trying to answer an acronym or complete a comic, you just get a prompt that you have to give a three-item answer to. This format also means you can add custom prompts to the last round, which wasn't a feature in Quiplash 2's custom prompts mode.

The claymation background when everyone is writing their prompts reminds me of the parachute from elementary school gym.

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THE DEVILS AND THE DETAILS
Kind of like co-op WarioWare with a house chores theme. Or co-op Among Us tasks. Most of the gameplay takes place on the browser or phone.

You're typically working with only one other player at a time, so there's a lot of crosstalk, which adds to the hectic nature of the game.

It's pretty fun! Probably won't be a staple of your game nights, but nice for a change of pace once in awhile.

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CHAMP'D UP
You're given a prompt in the form of a wrestling match title. You draw a character to fit that prompt and name it. Someone else is shown your character, and has to come up with a challenger without seeing the original prompt.

In the final round, you make new characters, but you can also tag in previous characters for a new fight.

Meant to be a spiritual successor to Tee K.O. I prefer Tee K.O. myself, but this is in no way a bad game. Can provide a whole different kind of laugh when you can very clearly tell who got the challenger prompt rather than the match title.

The drawing tools are also vastly improved over other Jackbox drawing games. There are separate pens for lineart and colors, meaning you can actually work in layers to a small degree. The prompts also make it a lot easier to come up with a funny drawing than in Tee K.O.

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TALKING POINTS
Improvised TED Talks. You're given a couple subjects to choose from, written by other players. The images for your slideshow are provided in real-time by a randomly selected partner.

The scoring system is a little abstract, but I rarely pay attention to scores in Jackbox games anyway.

Can be the highlight of the entire pack if your friends are good at improv. It's a unique experience!

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BLATHER ROUND
It's charades with words. You're given a subject and have very limited options to describe it to other players. Has a lower player limit than other Jackbox games, at six players + audience.

This is my favorite game in the pack, and one of the best Jackbox games in my opinion. It's fun to just patch together an absolutely ridiculous sentence that still somehow describes your prompt perfectly.

Be aware there are a lot of nuances to the game that might be non-obvious at first. For example: if you don't like your prompts, you can generate three new ones; you can use more than one word from each column; if you don't like your options when describing the prompt on your turn, you can skip to the next set of words; and if there are words underlined in the prompt, you can click those to change them.

Probably best as a wind-down game when there are less people around, because there are only six slots and the audience doesn't get to contribute much.

If you or a loved one is not from America, make sure to turn on the be-less-American mode in the settings. It will improve your life expectancy.

Clue: It's where you delight in the beast
Answer: Build-a-Bear Workshop

probably at least as good as mario party 7

The new best jackbox pack, all the games are kino (except devil in the details which im told sucks i aint ever gonna play it anyway)

Honestly, it amazes me the talent and budget in this Jackbox Pack. It is almost certainly the best Pack yet, with quality in every single game. So, I will now rank all of the games.

5. Blather 'Round: Surprisingly, this Trivia game with eyes on the clock is the most relaxed game in this entire pack. While it's great fun, that's all it is - it does little in comparison to the rest of the games in this pack.
8/10

4. The Devils and The Details: A great, hectic cooperative game, with the brilliant twist that it actually isn't that cooperative. The mechanics of the game are perfectly made to balance out working together and working alone with selfish intentions, but unfortunately, the tasks aren't as fun as they could be - rather than quick-fire WarioWare games, they can feel very low-key like actual chores. They're still great though.
8.5/10

3. Quiplash 3: Hey, #3 for number 3! This is still Quiplash, and it's still a brilliantly fun and quippy time. The additions make it a great sequel, with gorgeous playdough animation and a fun, thought-prompting Thriplash for the final round. It's more or less the same thing, but that's good.
9/10

2. Champ'd Up: They really went all out on the music - it sounds like stadium music, but five times better! The game itself is a much improvement on TeeKo, with the fighter and underdog mechanic making the round quite close, with one opponent knowing the criteria and the other knowing how to follow up the other's drawing. There is a pesky glitch in the presentation of the drawings on the TV, so I hope they fix that.
9/10

1. Talking Points: This might just be my favourite Jackbox Game of all time. It's like Patently Stupid, but you have no idea what you're presenting, and that's actually way better. Even the audience has fun watching the presentations, and the assistant role is surprisingly fun as well. I actually looked forward to assisting the presenter by deciding on slides!
Unfortunately, this does have the glaring flaw of the points handed out by the awards at the end - this little, joke award basically wins the entire game, so I hope they patch that out.
10/10

Overall Score: 5/5. The perfect digital board game collection.


Look up "______" in the dictionary and there will be a picture of THE

Champ'd Up is the greatest game of all time.

One of the most solid party packs in a while. None of these games are duds, they just serve different kinds of vibes/purposes. That kind of variety and quality makes for really strong entries in this series. Champ'd Up is a great follow up to one of the best Jackbox games, Tee K.O., Talking Points is fun as a vehicle mini-improv with friends and Blather Round is a fun guessing trivia game without excluding people bad at trivia.

The Devils and the Details is fun, but my group didn't get as much out of it as the others, it's a very different game than what's usually on these packs and I admire it for that. Honestly the weakest link here was Quiplash 3, mostly because it was just more Quiplash with not that much different outside of cool aesthetic changes. Overall really great and consistent set of games, especially compared to 6.

Talking Points and Champ'd Up both rule but something about Quiplash 3 was just utterly rancid, even though 1 and 2 remain good times. I can't even put my finger on it but the default questions just seemed absolutely asinine; "what would Bob Ross's name be if he was a renaissance painter?" I don't fuckin know man. Boiel Rosset XII? Happiel Accidente? What do you want from me? Claymation is fun though.

Quiplash 3 alone is the perfect excuse to go fully uhinged with your friends

Might actually be the best one? devil's in the details is the mandatory dud that shows up in all of these but champ'd up is probably the best thing they've ever made

Jackbox returns with its best pack to date. This is the only pack where I think every single game is a certified banger!

Its good but please, cum isn't funny anymore

The only Jackbox Party Pack where every game is great.

Clue: It loathes the chunk.
Story: Green Eggs and Ham

I don't get it. Generic minecraft youtuber uwu softboy #74 plays it live on twitch and gets circlejerked on twitter forever for being so funny, but when I write a racial slur in Quiplash not a single one of my friends laugh? The fuck is wrong with society

Champ'd Up is good because you can draw as many depraved YouTubers/internet celebrities as possible and make then fight for the title "Champion of Expendable"

I am dead serious when I say this is the best Party Pack we've seen, yet. Never have I seen a line of games in a Jackbox pack that is this consistent in quality.

Quiplash 3 is an easy win because it's more Quiplash. Quiplash is a party favorite, and it remains that way with new prompts and "last lash" rounds that spice things up.

The Devil's in the Details is a super fun task-related game that forces cooperation with subtle seeds of people trying to screw each other over without completely ruining it for everyone. It's a tad complicated to understand at first, but after everyone gets it, it's a smooth, hilarious experience.

Champ'd Up is additionally hilarious, combining shitty phone drawings with stupid prompts for a basic "vote for the best" game with enough creativity to keep it refreshing.

Talking Points is almost entirely on the players to make the most fun out of it. Teaming up with random players to create dumb speeches about wacko things is a lot of fun, but you'll need to have really good improvisational and public speaking skills to really get the most out of it.

Blather Round is basically Pictionary with just words, which works, yet isn't too exciting. Nevertheless, it's still a lot of fun!

This is a required purchase for people wanting to play stupid, fun party games.

Party games peaked here. This is a genuine 5 star review. Stop looking at me like that.

Best JPP. All games are fun, no exception. Quiplash 2 still better than 3 IMO, but The Devils and The Details and Champd Up are top tier Jackbox games.

Champed up and Quiplash? Massive W

yahoo yahooo yayayayayayayayayayayayayaya

Yelling at people with a hot devil MILF is fun

My friend coby draws really cool guys in the game champd up

this one is AMAZING if you're all playing in the same room, and champ'd up is the goat


THIS IS THE BEST ONE AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHER WISE

Quiplash 3: In my opinion the best Quiplash.

The Devil And The Details: Really fun from the one game I played of it. I appreciate Jackbox going after games that are less comedy-oriented, even though comedy games are still in their wheelhouse.

Champ'd Up: Not a huge fan, another case of great premise with not enough done to make it work as much as it should.

Have not played Blather Round or Talking Points yet.

another great pack! I love the additions they made to quiplash, and I don't really have any major complaints, I like all the games, but at the same time, the games don't reach the same level of quality as something in party pack 6, imo