My son’s problem being me passing wind prompted me to come up with the ‘Butt Cork’ which you then have to present to the other participants with a catchy slogan. The better game though is Patently Stupid.Ī party pack isn’t complete without a drawing game, and Patently Stupid not only asks you to draw, but create a problem, then come up with an invention to solve it. Split the room gives you a hypothetical scenario to fill in the blanks with the sole goal being to either appeal to or put off the people you’re playing with, if you manage to get a good split of people between the two possibilities you created then you get bonus points. Player interaction is absolutely key in getting people invested in a party game and here there are two stand outs. I just don’t feel that, as the main event, this has as much going for it as something like Fibbage does, and it really doesn’t help that there’s no family friendly filter for it, so you can’t really get the kids involved. I mean, a question about which book to read to ensure a happy ending in a massage parlour initially drew as many confused looks as it did laughs when the answer was revealed. That said, the questions are an incredibly unpredictable set of downright bizarre and improbable answers guaranteed to make you shout out your disbelief on a very regular basis. I’m not sure what it is, but while the scattergun approach of You Don’t Know Jack 2015 from the first party pack kept the pace flowing quickly, this feels a little slower-paced, and the cue card layout across the bottom plays host to a series of pictures with very little humour, context or purpose. It’s a bold move to make the generally rude General Knowledge game the headliner here, considering the series thrives on the input of the participants and there’s something off about its format. This fifth party pack then comes with another five games, four new ones and the return of You Don’t Know Jack. I guess the relative cheapness of the compilations helps keep the constant releases more palatable, but the packages are getting incredibly inconsistent with their overall quality. I’d have much preferred it if Jackbox Games just released new questions for existing games or new games via DLC. We’re onto a fifth instalment of the Party Pack series, which really does seem like overkill. After a few games at home I dragged my PS4 around to my mother’s house and got a load of extended family into it, and before I knew it my mum had bought a copy, my brother, my aunty and my cousins – the sense of fun is infectious and the sheer insanity of it all helps proceedings along. It was three years ago that my family got hooked on the original Jackbox Party Pack.
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