The Jackbox Party Pack 2

The second Jackbox Party Pack follows the same model as the first — phones and tablets as controllers, no extra hardware required, up to eight players plus a web audience of up to ten thousand — and bundles five new games covering most flavors of party play.

Fibbage 2 returns the trivia-bluffing format with more than 500 brand-new questions (over twice the original's pool) and a new deFIBrillator feature for hint use. Earwax is a sound-effect game for three to eight where players assemble the funniest combination of clips to fit a prompt — cow moo, huge explosion, tiny fart, all on the table. Bidiots, for three to six, is an art-auction game in which the art itself is drawn on the spot by other players, and bidding wars escalate accordingly.

Quiplash XL is the expanded version of the say-anything writing prompt game, with everything from Quiplash and Quip Pack 1 plus over a hundred new prompts. Bomb Corp., for one to four players, breaks pattern as a cooperative bomb-defusing game: you're an intern at a company that defuses random office bombs to keep your job, the defusal rules are constantly changing, and most runs end badly.

All five games support remote play through any video-conferencing tool with screen share — Zoom, Discord, Twitch, Steam Broadcast — so the pack works as well across continents as it does in a living room. English-language only, like most of the Jackbox catalogue.