The Jackbox Survey Scramble will turn your game night into Family Feud

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The heat is on. I’m halfway through a round of Hilo, a new game featured in The Jackbox Survey Scramble, and I need some points if I’m going to win. I’m competing against three members of the Jackbox staff as we’ve taken turns guessing the best sandwich fixings and getting points depending on how popular our responses were among other players. Now, we need to guess the worst response on a list that’s over 270 entries long. My instinct would have been to write “mayonnaise,” but, sickeningly, that’s the No. 2 most popular answer. If I want to win, I’ll need to think like a Jackbox player.

“Poop,” I write. Sure enough, it pops up near the middle of the list.

That’s the comedic reversal of The Jackbox Survey Scramble compared to the developer’s previous Party Packs. Rather than writing witty prompts and cracking jokes, this side collection is more about letting other player’s gags lead the comedy act. The result is a fun experiment that finds the Jackbox team at a creatively invigorated phase of its career — all to the benefit of its players.

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Survey says …

The Jackbox Survey Scramble isn’t your typical Jackbox Party Pack. You won’t be drawing pictures, following along with a long set of rules, or playing a variant of any familiar games. Instead, all four games (with two more to come) here are focused around a core idea: surveys. Each game asks players a question. What’s the best cat name? What are words you see in a comic book? Each submitted one-word answer is then stored in a database, reviewed by a moderation team, and pushed back into the game. That means that its answers aren’t static; they change over time as more people play, making for Jackbox’s most dynamic game yet.

“When you come back to this game, it will be different,” game director Tim Sniffin