Easily the weakest set of jackbox games, with drawful and fibbage being good but not good enough to carry it. Lie Swatter can be alright and You Don't Know Jack is outclassed by every other jackbox trivia game. Word Spud is possibly the worst game in the series, or at the very least the most boring. Skip this one, the good games have better sequels in later packs.
A good start, but nowadays there's no real point in getting this one - all the good games got sequels in other party packs
A landmark that transformed the party game scene, rendered retroactively pointless by the best games getting sequels & spiritual successors with better mechanics, visuals, and accessibility options.
You Don't Know Jack - C tier - The standout of the pack in terms of visual style and constantly throwing loud novelties at the player. Stay with this one long enough and eventually you realize it's a lot of flashing lights to distract from shallow game mechanics. It's a trivia game where the real challenge is to parse confusing questions with limited time, that's about it. Wrong Answer and Jack Attack are neat concepts with poor implementation, and the latter means that final scores always give the W to whoever has the fastest reflexes and lowest device ping.
Fibbage XL - B tier - The best of this pack's 3 trivia games. You Don't Know Jack has more style but Fibbage stands the test of time with better game mechanics. Player-submitted trick answers allow an actually social game, rather than trivia devolving into parallel single-player. Not as good as Fibbage 3/4 or Trivia Murder Party.
Drawful - A tier - For my money drawing games are usually the best in the pack, including this one. Drawful uses the same trick-answer mechanic as Fibbage while enabling even more player expression through drawing instead of listening to trivia. Better than Weapons Drawn, worse than Tee K.O. and Champ'd Up, about the same as Drawful 2 & Drawful Animate.
Word Spud - D tier - The biggest gameplay standout that hasn't really been replaced by any newer Jackbox game. I can see why they never returned to it though: It's barely a game and more like a word association stim toy. Can be fun if getting high doesn't impede your reading & typing abilities.
Lie Swatter - F tier - The least interesting trivia game in a pack of 3 trivia games. There is no freeform player input, only answer true/false. It's barely a game and more like a tech demo, testing the server's ability to handle a massive number of players, what would later be better implemented as the audience feature.
You Don't Know Jack - C tier - The standout of the pack in terms of visual style and constantly throwing loud novelties at the player. Stay with this one long enough and eventually you realize it's a lot of flashing lights to distract from shallow game mechanics. It's a trivia game where the real challenge is to parse confusing questions with limited time, that's about it. Wrong Answer and Jack Attack are neat concepts with poor implementation, and the latter means that final scores always give the W to whoever has the fastest reflexes and lowest device ping.
Fibbage XL - B tier - The best of this pack's 3 trivia games. You Don't Know Jack has more style but Fibbage stands the test of time with better game mechanics. Player-submitted trick answers allow an actually social game, rather than trivia devolving into parallel single-player. Not as good as Fibbage 3/4 or Trivia Murder Party.
Drawful - A tier - For my money drawing games are usually the best in the pack, including this one. Drawful uses the same trick-answer mechanic as Fibbage while enabling even more player expression through drawing instead of listening to trivia. Better than Weapons Drawn, worse than Tee K.O. and Champ'd Up, about the same as Drawful 2 & Drawful Animate.
Word Spud - D tier - The biggest gameplay standout that hasn't really been replaced by any newer Jackbox game. I can see why they never returned to it though: It's barely a game and more like a word association stim toy. Can be fun if getting high doesn't impede your reading & typing abilities.
Lie Swatter - F tier - The least interesting trivia game in a pack of 3 trivia games. There is no freeform player input, only answer true/false. It's barely a game and more like a tech demo, testing the server's ability to handle a massive number of players, what would later be better implemented as the audience feature.
Drawful and Fibbage are good, You Don't Know Jack is alright, Word Spud and Lie Swatter are very meh. Decent party pack, though I would probably recommend getting Drawful 2 and another party pack instead.
Worth it for word spud