4 Fun Learning Games You Should Play
If you're looking for new quiz and trivia games that can be used as a tool for learning, Jackbox has plenty of incredible options to choose from. Jackbox Games are the perfect group activity, whether you're hosting game sessions with your students, as an icebreaker activity at work, or during casual get togethers with family and friends. Jackbox Games has tons of challenging and outrageously entertaining quiz and trivia games that can be played in-person or online on all major digital platforms, including Steam (PC/Mac), Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and more!
Jackbox Games are easy to play - just make sure everyone can see the TV or screen where the game was launched and then all of the players in your group use their phones, tablets, or computers as controllers to play. Plus, only one member of your group needs to own a title to launch the game! We have a helpful video tutorial and step-by-step instructions for how to connect all of your players to the game here and a resource related specifically to playing Jackbox with Students here.
Quizizz users will love these fun and educational Jackbox titles:
#1 - The Jackbox Survey Scramble
Jackbox has made an all-new party experience! Taking real surveys from real people around the globe, The Jackbox Survey Scramble is constantly changing based on answers submitted from players, including you! Invite your friends, family, coworkers, and enemies to see how they think when it comes to questions like, “In one word, what’s the best sandwich topping?”
Play with your phone or tablet - no special controller required. All modes support 2 to 10 players and 10,000 audience members.
All Jackbox Survey Scramble modes can be played in English, French, Italian, German, Castilian or Latin American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. And we'll be making sure we have localized answers for the UK and Australia, as well. Crikey!
The Jackbox Survey Scramble is available as a standalone game. Learn more here.
#2 - Timejinx
In Timejinx you play the role of a time traveler who meets up with their ragtag group of friends for trivia night at the residence of our acerbic host, Jerri Rig.
In each round you are tasked with traveling to certain years when important, or not so important, events took place. Your goal is to land as close to the correct year as possible; the farther you’re off on the timeline, the higher your score gets. And in this game, high scores are bad!
Fortunately, there are a series of side missions you’ll go on that can help reduce your score. These include:
Blending into random parties from different decades Navigating your way through a time loop Saving a real historical figure from their evil imposter Identifying locations in an alternate timeline Fixing the absurd butterfly effect you’ve caused
The game ends with one final task that sends you on a high-stakes mission into the distant future!
Can you handle the year pressure?
Timejinx is available in The Jackbox Party Pack 10.
#3 - Quixort
Quixort is a game that simply asks you to arrange the multiple answers to a singular trivia question into their proper order. And even better, the answers are contained in blocks that fall from the top and are guided by adorable, hard-working robots. So, you not only get the satisfaction of putting things in order but also the anxiety caused by an unrelenting industrial process that JUST KEEPS SPITTING OUT BLOCKS! Fun, right? You and your friends divide into teams and see who can do the best job sorting the answers to something like “The Order of Planets In Our Solar System” or “Celebrity Heights From Shortest to Tallest.”
Okay, maybe you’re not a team player and would like to go it alone. Great! There’s also Quixort Forever, a mode that lets you play by yourself (or with other players on the same team) to see how long you can answer questions until your wrong answers cause you to top out.
Additionally, we added some cool controller features such as:
- A real-time map on your phone to show your block position in case you’re experiencing lag from playing on a stream
- An audience function that lets you sort along at home and see how your score compares to the players’
Quixort is available in The Jackbox Party Pack 9.
#4 - The Wheel of Enormous Proportions
Who is the Wheel of Enormous Proportions? An ageless deity? An ancient oracle? A massive being that craves the company of tiny humans for trivia and casino-esque hijinks? The answer is yes!
In the beginning… you are invited by the omniscient Wheel to ask any question that gnaws at your soul, anything at all. No question is beyond the Wheel’s infinite wisdom to answer. But all players must survive a contest of trivia and wheel-spinning first. The Wheel only bestows its knowledge on the game’s champion.
Once assembled on the Wheel’s sacred summit in the sky, players are challenged with an enlightened brand of trivia. Every trivia round is followed by a round of wheel-spinning.
If the Wheel stops on a slice with your name on it, you move onto (CUE angelic choral music) The Wisdom Wheel. This is it, the proverbial moment of truth. Remember that burning question you asked at the start? As winner of the game, you’ll have it answered with one final twirl of the Wheel. Will it be… pepperoni, anchovies, or something completely unexpected?
Only the Wheel knows for sure.
The Wheel of Enormous Proportions is available in The Jackbox Party Pack 8.
Other games among the Jackbox catalogue include aspects of trivia along with a variety of other fun concepts. You can get five unique and incredibly entertaining Jackbox Games for under $30 by purchasing a Party Pack!
