The Jackbox

This is a fun game (the puzzles start off crazy easy, but they’re just teaching you the conventions for later puzzles). The biggest problem is that there are also Hidden Object puzzles. I avoid hidden object games because my eyesight is not great and the phone is already tiny. Now that I’ve figured out what’s going on, I’ve accepted that I have to enlarge the screen and scan every pixel — I know I’m not the game’s demographic, so that’s fine. I just wish I had known ahead of time. You can pl

I’m not a fan of timed puzzles and just don’t feel like it’s worth $6. Cute but not great.

So, the game is great! But.. how are you supposed to beat the green pack when it doesn’t even give you enough time to do the puzzles? I’m doing them quickly, but it keeps making me restart before I can finish the last puzzle on level 12

I love how there’s not even any instructions to play you just have to figure it out on your own

I get it: The menacing clown is the central theme. And I don’t mind him popping out every now and then to annoy me. But the constant banging from inside the box is not really artful; it’s disruptive annoying — and it’s pretty distracting when I’m trying to solve a particularly knotty puzzle. Maybe “Turn Banging Off” could be an option in the settings.