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50 free Jackbox trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Jackbox is the party game you play with the phone already in your pocket: one person owns the pack, everyone else types a room code, and a living room or a stream full of strangers is suddenly writing terrible jokes and worse drawings. Behind the packs sits a studio that has been making irreverent trivia since the CD-ROM era, and whose snarky host has outlived three corporate names. These 50 questions are about the games rather than a set of prompts. They cover which pack introduced which game and what each one makes you do, player counts and the audience, the hosts and the people who voice them, the You Don't Know Jack origins and the reboot that brought the studio back, the platforms the packs have reached and the bundles and standalone releases around the numbered series. Play it if you can name the pack from a single game, hand it to the friend who always picks the drawing game, or print it for a quiz night between rounds of the real thing.
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Q 01Under which earlier company name did the Jackbox Games studio make the original 1995 You Don't Know Jack?
Jellyvision
Jellyvision shut its games arm in 2001 as players left CD-ROM PCs for consoles, and it sat dormant for seven years before a 2008 revival.
Q 02Instead of downloading an app, Party Pack players type a room code from the host's screen into which website?
jackbox.tv
jackbox.tv is the studio's own server, so only the host needs to own the pack; the rest join from a phone, tablet or laptop browser.
Q 03Beyond its eight active players, how large an audience can Quiplash 3 admit to vote through the room code?
10,000
10,000 audience members can pile in after the eighth player, and their votes count as a block alongside the players' picks.
Q 04Which game in the first Jackbox Party Pack admits up to 100 players, all judging whether odd statements are true?
Lie Swatter
Lie Swatter began as a single-player mobile app before the pack reworked it into a 100-player true-or-false free-for-all.
Q 05Jackbox said its player base doubled during the 2020 lockdowns; what total did the studio claim by that October?
200 million
200 million players by October 2020 was double the 2019 figure, and the studio answered the surge by expanding its server capacity.
Q 06Which voice actor, brother of the company's founder, plays Cookie Masterson in You Don't Know Jack?
Tom Gottlieb
Tom Gottlieb also helped write the 2011 reboot, and the studio credits much of the Cookie persona to his own performance of the character.
Q 07Which US network aired a prime-time You Don't Know Jack game show in summer 2001, hosted by Paul Reubens?
ABC
ABC ran it for only a few summer weeks, with Paul Reubens, better known as Pee-wee Herman, playing over-the-top host Troy Stevens while Cookie Masterson announced.
Q 08In You Don't Know Jack, what does a player's single 'screw' per game do to an opponent?
Forces an instant response
Forces an instant response, within five seconds in the 2011 version, and if the victim gets it right they steal money from the screwer instead.
Q 09In Cookie Masterson's trivia show, which word-association final round hides every running total behind ominous music?
Jack Attack
Jack Attack pairs a subject with a stream of candidates and pays for buzzing on the right match, so it often decides the whole game by itself.
Q 10On which crowdfunding site did Jackbox raise over $30,000 in March 2015 to build Quiplash?
Kickstarter
Kickstarter backers, more than 1,600 of them, doubled the $15,000 goal, and Quiplash became the first Jackbox game to let an audience join in.
Q 11What did the 2016 standalone Drawful 2 add that the first Party Pack's Drawful never offered?
Two colours per drawing
Two colours per drawing was the headline upgrade; the standalone reached PC and consoles on June 21, 2016, with a handheld port exactly two years later.
Q 12In Trivia Murder Party, missing a question sends a player to a mini-game on what grimly named level?
The Killing Floor
The Killing Floor mini-games can cost a player's life, and the endgame only starts once a single player is left alive and at least three questions have been asked.
Q 13Which Party Pack 5 game has players fill in rap-battle lyrics that are then performed by giant robots?
Mad Verse City
Q 21Starting with Party Pack 3 in April 2017, which console joined the list of Jackbox platforms?
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch owners got Party Pack 3 first, on April 13, 2017, and the two earlier packs followed that August.
Q 22Which cloud-gaming service sold the Party Packs from late 2021 until it shut down in January 2023?
Stadia
Stadia listed the packs from November 16, 2021, and they were pulled on October 20, 2022, three months before Google switched the service off.
Q 23Party Pack 3, the one that introduced Trivia Murder Party and Tee K.O., was written in which technology?
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash powered the 2016 pack even as browsers were abandoning the plugin, and the games still shipped to consoles, Apple TV and certain Android devices.
Mad Verse City has 3 to 8 players out-rap one another in freestyle battles, with the room and the audience voting on every head-to-head.
Q 14Which Party Pack 6 game puts 4 to 10 players on a spaceship hunting the aliens hiding among the crew?
Push the Button
Push the Button gives the aliens a different prompt from the humans, so their answers look subtly off, and the crew must eject them before a timer runs out.
Q 15How many games come in every numbered Jackbox Party Pack, from the 2014 original through Party Pack 11?
Five
Five games per pack has held since 2014; only the cut-down bundles — Party Starter, the Naughty Pack and Party Essentials — break the pattern, with three games each.
Q 16Which US city is home to Jackbox Games, a studio that began life as the educational outfit Learn Television?
Chicago
Chicago has hosted the company through every name change, and a 1996 TV pilot of You Don't Know Jack was produced there too but never picked up.
Q 17Jackbox's December 2020 extension lets viewers on which streaming service join a game without leaving the stream?
Twitch
Twitch streamers had driven the packs' popularity since Fibbage in 2014, and the extension lets a streamer run the whole room from the channel itself.
Q 18Fibbage, the 2014 bluffing game that launched the Party Pack era, debuted first on which unlikely device?
Amazon Fire TV
Amazon Fire TV got the bluffing game free at the box's April 2014 launch, months before the console versions, and its popularity with streamers convinced Jackbox to bundle games into packs.
Q 19Which adventure-game studio published the boxed retail editions of the first Jackbox Party Pack in November 2015?
Telltale Games
Telltale Games put the pack on store shelves on November 3, 2015, the day the Xbox 360 version arrived, making it the only pack ever sold on that console.
Q 20Which publisher backed the 2011 console revival of You Don't Know Jack on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii?
THQ
THQ signed on before full-time development began in February 2010, and the reboot shipped with 73 ten-question episodes plus 40 more as DLC.
Q 24From 1999 to 2001 the You Don't Know Jack studio built five PC games based on which US quiz show?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire spawned a run of studio-built games using Regis Philbin's likeness and voice, right up until the games arm shut down in 2001.
Q 25Of the first eleven Party Packs, all default to an ESRB Teen rating except Party Pack 8, which carries which rating?
Everyone 10+
Everyone 10+ made the 2021 pack the family-safe outlier, while the Teen packs rely on an optional family-friendly filter that censors questions and player input.
Q 26Which You Don't Know Jack host is voiced by the company's founder himself rather than a hired actor?
Nate Shapiro
Nate Shapiro, voiced by the founder, also emceed the Tiger Electronics tabletop version of You Don't Know Jack.
Q 27Which British comic actor voiced Jack Cake, host of the UK edition of You Don't Know Jack?
Paul Kaye
Paul Kaye fronted the British release as Jack Cake, while the German editions had their own Quizmaster Jack and the Japanese version was hosted by Masatoshi Hamada.
Q 28In the 2011 You Don't Know Jack, which question type is played only by the lowest-scoring player in offline multiplayer?
DisOrDat
DisOrDat survived from the CD-ROM era into the 2011 reboot, which dropped typed rounds like the Gibberish Question because consoles lack keyboards.
Q 29In the 2011 You Don't Know Jack, which hidden bonus is hinted at by each episode's fictional sponsor?
The Wrong Answer of the Game
The Wrong Answer of the Game hides among one question's options each episode, so a baby-crib sponsor points to the answer 'Cat's Cradle'.
Q 30In You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream from Party Pack 5, which fictional streaming service now owns Cookie Masterson?
Binjpipe
Binjpipe is the joke corporate owner behind the 2018 version's 'Data Mining' questions and device-jamming screws, and it seats up to eight players instead of four.