How To Ask For Jackbox Games For The Holidays Without Confusing Your Parents

Whether Christmas, Chanukah, or a nondenominational holiday your atheist parents made up so you wouldn’t feel left out, Jackbox games are the #1 thing on your wishlist no matter the year! They’re the perfect gift; they’re fun for the whole family, easy to play, and a great thing to put on to relieve the tension after your uncle started talking about politics over the honey roast.

But what if your parents are technically illiterate and they don’t understand how digital games work? Don’t fret! We have the perfect guide for teaching your parents where and how to download Jackbox Party Packs!

STEP ONE: INFORMATION ON THE GAMES - What are The Jackbox Party Packs?

First things first, do they know what Jackbox Party Packs are? Try testing the waters by randomly bringing up “great party games for your friends and family” and see how they react. Do they talk about a funny Quiplash that their boss wrote on a company retreat last year? Or do they start talking about a hoop and stick game they loved growing up? If it’s the latter then good friggen luck because your work is cut out for you! 

Don’t give up hope just yet! Simply sit your parents down and let them know that there are currently ten Jackbox Party Packs. Each Party Pack comes with a collection of five games that generally support about 2-8 players, but a full list of games and their player counts can be found here. 

Jackbox titles are available across game consoles, computers, and TV streaming devices. Only one person in your group needs to own the game for everyone to play. Everyone else can join from a browser on their phones by heading to jackbox.tv.

Did your parents get all that? Use graphs and charts if you need to. Maybe start this conversation in June to give them time to learn what a computer is.

STEP TWO: WHERE TO BUY - Where can you buy The Jackbox Party Packs?

Now this question is maybe something that you need to figure out on your own before approaching your parents at all. Jackbox Party Packs are widely available across most digital gaming platforms. They are available for download on modern Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox consoles. If you have a computer, they are also available on Steam and the Epic Games store. Jackbox party games are also available in the App Store for Apple TVs and on Amazon Fire TV! 

Once you do some soul searching, perhaps a little journaling, and decide where you’d most like to play your Party Packs, let your parents know your digital platform of choice. Surely your parents know what at least one of those is, right? RIGHT?

STEP FOUR: GIFTING - How to gift the Jackbox Party Packs

Now that you know where you want to play the game, you have to teach your parents how to buy the game. Most digital platforms let you gift digital games from one account to another. But what if your parents don’t have a Steam or Xbox account, you ask? Well you can head straight to the Official Jackbox Games online shop. From here, they can purchase a Steam code directly from our website! Make sure they know not to try to activate the code themselves. That’s your code, baby! We also offer digital gift cards so you can pick out games yourself! 

And if all else fails, they could always go to their local brick and mortar store to buy a digital gift card to your platform of choice for you to buy your Party Packs with. Then your parents can tuck your gift card into a card where they can write a little note about how they’re proud of you even though you wasted your college education on an art degree.

FINAL STEP: REAP WHAT YOU’VE PARTY GAME SOWED - Play The Jackbox Party Packs!

Now that you have downloaded some new party games, show your relatives how easy it is to join the game just by using a browser on their phone! They’ll be so impressed with the advances in technology and Jackbox’s user-friendly design, that they won’t even bring up your insistence on writing c*m jokes in front of your grandma!

Happy holidays, gamers!