It’s a classic game of espionage and deceit, but done completely at a level of wordplay and plausibility.Īs we mentioned with just about every Jackbox game, Fibbage XL works only in a multiplayer setting, and it really, truly requires at least four players in order to enjoy it properly. Players who guess correctly gets a good number of points, whereas the creators of the wrong answers get points if they successfully convince other people to vote for them. Afterwards, everyone votes on what they think is the correct answer. A group of players is given a factoid with some crucial piece of information missing: “To micturate is another way of saying _.” Players then each come up with their own idea of what the dropped words could be, whether it’s wildly outlandish or somewhat close to the truth.
The concept for Fibbage is unique, and it only gets better in the right company.
This is Fibbage XL, out on a solo release for the Nintendo Switch. Several, in fact, but we’re going back to the source, to the first Party Pack, to see what turned us all into professional fibbers.
The folks at Jackbox understand that the world is full of filthy liars, and they made a game out of it. As long as you can project your untruth with all the weight to sink into someone’s brain, you can convince a person that 5G waves cause COVID-19, that the ice shelves surround a flat world or that you definitely can’t get pregnant as long as we’re both standing up. As we all know, the key to a great lie isn’t just confidence: it’s believability. Hell, it’s second nature to breathing in some people, and that’s reprehensible, but we can’t even tell because they’re such good liars. From lying to your parents about where you were last night to telling your boss that the report is done and you just need to email it in, we have all lied to some degree over the course of our lives.