

Once your killer joke has been constructed, you’ll be performing it live on deck. You and your mates are competing to be the best amateur comedian aboard your cruise ship. Joke Boat is next, and a strong contender for my personal favourite. Role Models adds a bit of social science into the mix and is a fun way of testing just how well you know your friends, and they know you. It’s always a beautiful moment when everyone matches the same category to one person, which is certainly possible.

Shortly after this you are challenged to match your fellow players to categories, and see where the common ground lies within the group. To kick things off all the players vote on which category to play with. Role Models is the third game in the collection. That’s not to say it isn’t fun for a time, you’ll just be playing the other games far more often. It lacks the replayability of the others, mostly due to how simple it is. In later rounds you’ll be using it in a sentence, and it’s here where things can get ridiculous.ĭictionarium is fun but the weakest game of the collection. Your ultimate goal is to get your new word into the dictionary. Your job is to create definitions for made up words. Next up is Dictionarium, a pretty simple but fun word game. Otherwise it’s loads of fun, and most likely the strongest game of the lot. The only snag is that some questions are clearly aimed at an American audience, and therefore can be very difficult to answer for us across the pond. The final round is thrilling stuff, and usually goes down to the wire.Ī round of Trivia Murder Party 2 lasts a decent amount of time, on average 15 minutes or so.

If a dead, or ghost, player leapfrogs the leader, then can steal their life force and go on to win. Here, all players answer multiple choice questions and move ahead for each correct answer. If you lose, you die but still play on your only hope laying in the final dash to the exit. These range from games of chance to memory tests, and there are lots of them to keep things varied. If you get a question wrong, you’ll need to play a mini game to survive. Basically, you’re trapped in the “Murder House” and need to use your general knowledge to escape the madman who is running the show. The scene is immediately set by a brilliantly stylised intro sequence.

Depending on the game, you can even win as an audience member, which helps to keep everyone invested.įirst up in The Jackbox Party Pack 6, and the only sequel featured, is Trivia Murder Party 2. If you are unlucky enough to not secure a place in the game as a player – the max is usually 8 – you can still join the audience.
