13 Best Jackbox Games For Big Groups
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In 2014, Jackbox Games changed party games forever with the first Jackbox Party Pack. It contained a collection of fun games that could easily be played by anyone with a cell phone. This spawned a gaming powerhouse that would release many more Party Packs and numerous classic games. If you had a party and there were between four and eight people who wanted to play, you were going to have a good time.
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But sometimes parties can get big. Like, really big. Sometimes you need to entertain a whole auditorium or live stream full of people. And if you want to play with everyone there, these are the best Jackbox games for large groups.
Updated by Jeremy Hanna on February 7th, 2023: With the release of the Jackbox Party Pack 9 in October of 2022, the time has come to update this list with even more games you can play with a whole gaggle of friends, assuming your friends are geese. On top of this, every entry has been given a table referring to the number of players and audience members each game supports, what type of game they are, and whether or not they are in a Party Pack.
13 Lie Swatter
Not every Jackbox game is a runaway hit. Some are just quick distractions that can get a lot of people in on a single game. Such is Lie Swatter, a game where players have to quickly identify whether the fact in front of them is true or not.
What's surprising about Lie Swatter is that it can support over 100 players. That means it's the perfect game to start getting large groups playing together. Lie Swatter may not be the most memorable Jackbox game out there, but it definitely gets the job done.
12 Push The Button
One of the best games to play with any group of people has got to be Among Us . While that is the pinnacle of Mafia or Werewolf-style video games, Jackbox took their own swing at the genre with Push The Button. Every turn, someone is randomly selected as the captain. They will then choose players to partake in a specific test to figure out who is secretly an alien.
This seems easy, but aliens will often receive a slightly different prompt than the other players and will have to justify their often strange choice. While Push The Button doesn't have an audience, it does have a large number of potential players, capable of up to ten.
11 Roomerang
Roomerang from Party Pack 9 puts you in the shoes of a reality show contestant. In five rounds, everyone will fill in prompts to earn points and vote to see who is eliminated. The player with the most points wins.
What sets this apart from other fill-in-the-blank games is that each player is given a description of the character they play in the show, like "Loves Fast Food" or "Thirsty Architect." This can inspire how they act and what choices they make. And if you're eliminated after a round, you'll come right back as a completely new character. Roomerang can be a lot of fun if everyone playing is willing to get a little bit weird.
10 The Drawful Series
The first Drawful game was a wonderful breath of fresh air amongst a pack filled with games all about trivia. It has a single player draw a prompt while the other players try and guess what prompt was originally given or just give a funny answer. This has been given two sequels with Drawful 2 and Drawful Animate.
While audience support has been added for the latter two games, any version of Drawful is wonderful to watch. The answers can get genuinely funny, and the drawings are always great to see, especially when they're particularly terrible. Drawful is always a crowd pleaser that can draw a smile from anyone, no pun intended.
One of the best things to come from Drawful was the creation of more games centered around drawing, including the crowd favorite Tee K.O., where players create t-shirts to battle it out and determine which one reigns supreme.
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This is great fun for a big crowd because not only can the audience vote for which drawings they like more, but at the very end, you can purchase any of the shirts at the end of the game. But if you don't want to spend the money on your own t-shirt, you can actually download the shirt designs into Animal Crossing: New Horizons. So even after this game is finished, Tee K.O. can live on with you forever.
8 Split The Room
Split The Room is a single-player yes-or-no-question game with the goal of splitting the other players as evenly as possible. Add on a cool Twilight Zone-esque aesthetic and an adorable cat host, and you have the makings for a really memorable game!
What's fun for larger groups in Split The Room is that the audience becomes a single player who makes decisions by majority vote. This makes the whole audience not just spectators but participants in the game. While they may not all be able to act individually, this still allows them to become even more invested in what's happening on screen.
7 The Quiplash Series
Quiplash is the quintessential Jackbox game to play with a huge audience. Players get two prompts where they try and give the funniest or most clever answer possible. Answers are then displayed head to head, and the people vote for their favorites.
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The audience plays a major part here because each member gets to vote for their favorite answer. This means that the audience has a lot more sway than the players, so the players will have to play toward the audience a lot more. The best part is that every version of Quiplash is equally fun and hilarious, especially when you've got a crowd.
6 Champ'd Up
Champ'd Up from Party Pack 7 carries on the torch of Tee K.O. by having two drawings duking it out for supremacy. The difference here is that the first person makes a drawing for a prompt while the other player makes a drawing in response to the other without knowing what the prompt is. It's not only hilarious seeing people's art, but it's even better when the competitor gets the prompt completely wrong.
Champ'd up is made even more fun with a crowd. Not only do they get to react to the great or terrible drawings, but they can actively see the votes change on the drawing they want to win. It creates a similar atmosphere to watching a professional wrestling match. And if you particularly like any of the drawings, you can order a card game featuring them to take home with you!
5 Talking Points
Are you part of a particularly charismatic or outgoing group of friends? Then you will love Talking Points. Talking Points puts a player front and center of everyone else as they give an impromptu speech based on the title and slides selected by a secondary player. Everyone else reacts in real-time, giving the speaker a thumbs up or down on their mobile device.
Talking Points is also a great game to play in front of a crowd because of the presentational style of the game. It is one of the few Jackbox games that does best with a live audience.
4 Bracketeering
In Bracketeering, players are given a single prompt they must answer. Afterward, each answer is put into a tournament-style bracket to see which answer reigns supreme. The following rounds feature the same format, except the prompt can randomly change. Suddenly, your answer may not be so great.
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Match like in Champ'd Up, you can see these answers battling each other in a cool energy beam effect, but what makes this work for the bigger get-togethers is that 16 people can play at a time. It gets a lot of people involved at once, and the games are relatively quick since players only have to enter a single entry at a time.
Quixort is one of the rare team-based Jackbox games. In it, your group of friends will be split into two teams where it will become your job to sort different items based on prompts like game consoles from oldest to newest or peppers based on the Scoville scale. Each team will be scored based on accuracy.
However, if you don't want everyone to get competitive, you and your friends can choose to play forever mode, where every player works together to get the right answer. Of all the Jackbox games, Quixort is by far the most collaborative.
2 Trivia Murder Party 2
Trivia Murder Party has become one of the most popular games in Jackbox because of its incredible theming and cut-throat gameplay that makes you feel like you're actually trying to escape from a serial killer. It's become a fan favorite and is guaranteed to bring enjoyment to any sized crowd. And the sequel is just as good, too.
What separates Trivia Murder Party 2 from the original is the ability for the audience to swoop in at the end and win the game. So not only do you have the thick tension and macabre atmosphere that already makes this game enjoyable, but now the audience gets to actually be a part of it too. It's a great addition to an already wonderful game.
1 The Poll Mine
The Poll Mine from Party Pack 8 is the perfect game for a colossal congregation. Players are trapped in a magical mine where they have to escape by navigating different doors. Which door is correct is decided by various answers to a prompt and which answer the players and audience liked the most.
Not only can The Poll Mine support up to ten players, but it can also be organized so that all the players are against the audience. This means that the audience isn't just a viewer or another participant but your only opponent. This gives them even more agency, forcing them to be invested in what happens on the screen.
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