The Jackbox Naughty Pack’s November Update Brings Wanted Changes

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The Jackbox Naughty Pack's November Update Brings Wanted Changes



My friends and I thoroughly enjoyed playing The Jackbox Naughty Pack when I reviewed it a few months ago. Like so many, we’ve spent the last decade belly-laughing our way through drawing, text, and trivia games, and it’s never long before things get R-rated with our answers. That said, we haven’t gone back to The Naughty Pack since, as other, better Jackboxes have remained first choice.



Jackbox Game Director Brooke Breit with one of the sprites from Fakin' It from the Jackbox Naughty Pack.

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Find Jackbox at a con near you, but don’t expect to see The Naughty Pack on the big screen at a convention anytime soon.

Maybe it clicked more for newer players, but for people like us who have spent the last ten years finding organic ways to make these games filthy, it felt a little forced.But ahead of playing over the holidays with grandma, Jackbox has put out an update for The Naughty Pack to add more content, as well as revamping what was already on the menu. I assembled a group of friends over Discord this past weekend, and we got down to getting dirty once again.


Let Me Finish Even Quicker

One of the biggest changes is the new Quick Mode for Let Me Finish, a game tasking you with assigning naughty notions to a slew of standard, everyday items, thinking as dirty as you possibly can. The original version of the game where you’d argue your points out loud is now referred to as Debate Mode, and the only real change there is the addition of extra prompts. In Quick Mode, you’re still doing the same thing, but with fewer than 30 characters in a caption.


We doubled down on this mode by enforcing a strict ‘no elaboration’ rule, and it led to some interesting, awful notions. Something about not being able to defend yourself for the weird things you say makes it that much weirder, and this policy made us enjoy Let Me Finish significantly more this time around. We likely won’t play Debate Mode much, because while it’s hilarious to watch someone fumble trying to explain why what they just said isn’t that weird, it’s so much better watching them turn beet-red knowing that they can’t.

Regardless of which mode you play, you’ll not only have additional time to enter your responses in each round, up to three minutes from two. Another new feature is one that Let Me Finish shared with Fakin’ It All Night Long under the Content Control submenu within the game’s settings: the Profanity Filter.

Jackbox Urges Players To Be Profane, Not Hateful

Adjusting the profanity filter added in the November update for The Jackbox Naughty Pack.


It’s an interesting addition to a game expressly about being as profane as one could be, but the profanity that said filter searches for and blocks out depends on your individual settings. The default setting seems to be Moderate, which allows cursing but disallows outright more extreme responses and slurs. There’s also a Strict mode that blocks profanity as well (why play this version of Jackbox at all?), as well as the ability to turn off all filters on your game.

Besides the Profanity Filter, the only other change made to Fakin’ It All Night Long was the addition of extra prompts. This was our favorite of the three games when we first played, so it was guaranteed to make us laugh all over again when we went back a second time, and we were not disappointed.


We played with four people this time around, meaning there was only one imposter, adding to the pressure since we could no longer console ourselves by finding one of two if we failed as a group of real humans. Also, there’s just something so good about watching your friend look his horrified fiancé in the face and have to explain why he chose a cat emoji for which household item he thinks would be the most useful if he had to swap his genitals with something in their home.

The game to receive the fewest changes in the bunch was Dirty Drawful. True to its name, the game does indeed stay as dirty as ever, now with plenty of extra prompts tossed into the mix with the November update for The Jackbox Naughty Pack. Also, if you grew kind of sick of your friends spamming emojis while everyone was trying to make out just what the heck had been drawn, you can now turn the emotes off for the game.


In all, the November update for The Jackbox Naughty Pack has a few welcome quality-of-life changes, including glimpses at the game type on the menu of the main game or plenty of small but meaningful tweaks. If you’ve already got the game, it’s a great way to keep the content feeling fresh, especially if you’re streaming the game and want to limit how much hate speech gets broadcast on your channel. The update for The Jackbox Naughty Pack is available now for free, requiring just a quick update to download.

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