Job Job puts a comedic spin on a process I’m far too familiar with: job applications. The Wheel of Enormous Proportion ends up feeling like the Mario Party of trivia games: sure skill can help, but you’re mostly relying on luck to win. Even if you get a ton of slices, you can still end up losing through bad luck. In most rounds, the wheel isn’t anywhere close to being filled so it makes the question phase feel like it matters much less. Any not filled slices turn into normal score spaces, which give the spinner points then switch over to power spaces to give whoever answered the final question points.
Sometimes they even get two slices or the person who comes in second gets one, but this leaves things with overall few slices going around. Most questions have multiple answers, so whoever gets the most correct gets the slice. I didn’t really enjoy this one, the trivia portion was OK but my problem with it is that only the top scoring answerer will receive slices. Of course it’s meant to be a joke, since the game can only really tell what type of question you asked (who, what, when, why, etc.), but it can be a decently funny way of ending the game. Whoever wins has their question, entered at the start of the game, answered by the wheel. You go back and forth between these two phases until a player reaches 20,000 points, they then spin the winning wheel to see if they win the game immediately or have to continue playing. This phase has some strategy to it in where and how you place all your slices, you can stack them together and some parts of the wheel give more points, but it all comes down to luck when you’re actually spinning. After three rounds of questions, players proceed to the wheel where they place their slices and spin to allocate points. In the first phase, players answer trivia questions and, depending on how many answers they got correct in each question, receive slices. This game is similar to You Don’t Know Jack but with more reliance on luck.
Next up is The Wheel of Enormous Proportions. However, this is one of the better games in the pack and can make for a good time if you’re not really worried about competition. They attempt to mimic how players may type in answers, but the prompts end up being so out there that they stand out from the rest. For example, it’s very easy to recognize what was written by your friends in the room and what was written by the Jackbox team, so the actual guessing part can be a little too easy. It can make for some hilarious moments, if you’re bad enough at drawing, but the actual guessing part can be hit or miss. The other players then, much like Fibbage, type in fake titles to fool their opponents while trying to guess the correct prompt. Starting off the pack is yet another Drawful, but with a twist! This is Drawful Animate, where players make two frame animations to convey a prompt. The 8th Party Pack has some interesting games, but after the newness wears off I don’t see myself turning to this pack again for friendly gatherings. The developers have kept this train rolling like clockwork since 2014 and, to be completely honest, it’s starting to run out of steam. It’s that time of year again, a new Jackbox Party Pack comes to digital storefronts for some party time fun.
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