

Second, your friends get to joke about the stuff you like, and you can all have a laugh. First, you get to tell your friends something about yourself, in a way that isn’t forced or awkward. This really is an ideal bonding exercise. Except for when they all pick “SNAS UNDERTAL” like with my friends. Basically, the game asks you a question about yourself like, “If you had to get a tattoo, what would it be?” You write the truth, your friends write lies, and then they have to guess which one was right. Take another personal favourite game of mine, “Fibbage.” Specifically the “Enough About You” version in the third one. Except for shared hatred, of course.Īnd that’s another thing, a lot of these games can help you to learn more about your friends, and what they all think about each other. It may sound dumb, but there really is nothing like shared laughter to bring two people closer together. Not only does this let you learn more about your friends’ sense of humour, but it also lets you share in a victory, strengthening your friendship by just that little bit. You make funny headlines and comments with the help of your friend, and when you win, you win together. Like, they would write “Hairy, but undeniably sexy” about Chris Hemsworth or whatever, and you would turn that into a comment about “My dad’s back.” Boom. The game gives you all the tools necessary to make all types of different jokes and lets you play off the jokes already made by your friends. I mean, look at “Survive the Internet.” A perfect example of what I’m talking about. Really, you can learn a lot about a person by the type of penis they draw in Tee K.O.

There are many party games out there that are designed to make you have more fun with your group, but very few that seem designed to bring you closer together. Whether it’s through drawings, rap lyrics, or good old fashioned fart noises, nearly every game seems made for you to make your pals giggle, or at least exhale sharply out of their nose. To put it simply, the purpose of most Jackbox games is entertaining the other people you’re playing it with.
