Word Spud

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## Miscellaneous

### Code Name

WordSpud

**Word Spud** is one of the games released in The Jackbox Party Pack, supporting 2 to 8 players. It's a remaster of its original Flash incarnation.

## Gameplay

Word Spud begins by giving one player a simple word, such as "real" or "life". The player must then come up with a fitting or witty word or phrase to follow it. During this, the other players may type in their own ideas, which will pop up above their icons. Afterwards, the other players vote on the quality of the entry, giving it a check or an X. Every check is worth one point, and every X takes one away. If the entry received a positive score, that word (or the last word if it was a phrase) becomes the prompt for the next player, and the input appears in the background in the writer's color. Otherwise, the next player is given a new word.

The number of turns each player gets per round depends on the number of players:

* 2 players: 11 turns
* 3 players: 7 turns
* 4 players: 6 turns
* 5 players: 5 turns
* 6 players: 4 turns
* 7 or 8 players: 3 turns

At the end, the player with the most points will win the round. The players may then choose to play another, in which case the game will keep track of how many rounds each player has won.

## Trivia

* Word Spud is the only game out of The Jackbox Party Packs to not have a host. It is also the only game to not have any music play during the credits.
	+ Despite having without credits at the end of the game, Steve Heinrich (who also directed YDKJ 2015 and Fibbage XL), directed it and Tim Sniffen (who made art from Fibbage XL) made the art.
* In the official trailer for “The Jackbox Party Pack 7,” there’s a mug that says “WORD’S BEST SPUD,” with the logo for Word Spud sprinted on.
* The game, along with Zeeple Dome is often ridiculed as the worst game in a Jackbox Party Pack. In turn, Jackbox Games has poked fun at Word Spud in other Party Pack games and even Word Spud's page on their website.
	+ In Drawful 2, a player get an achievement by entering word spud 2 as decoy.
	+ In *Quiplash XL*, Schmitty will react on the prompt "An angry review you'd give this game (Quiplash)" if someone says that it's not as good as Word Spud.
	+ In Trivia Murder Party, when someone escaped. A newspaper subtitle will sometimes show: “Word Spud 2 delayed.”
	+ In *Survive the Internet*, *Word Spud 2* shows up as both a pop-up ad and a background application.
	+ During a commercial of You Don't Know Jack Full Stream Mike Bilder mentions Word Spud 3 as a potential next game.
	+ Word Spud is referenced in *Push The Button*, where the host D.O.D.E. sometimes says "In order to run this test, I've deleted Word Spud from the database."
	+ In the lead up to announcing *Drawful Animate*, Jackbox Games released a series of teaser GIF's on their Twitter account with phrases written on them. The blacked out letters from each post spell out **Word Spud Two**.
	+ In Drawful Animate, word spud 2 is one of the in-game provided decoys, if a player enters nothing or the input got rejected by the moderator.
	+ In the game The Wheel of Enormous Proportions, Word Spud is one of the possible answers of the wheel.
		- More specifically to the question "What's the meaning of life?", in which it will answer "The answer to life is Jackbox Games’ *Word Spud*. No, I was not paid to say that."
	+ In Quixort on the prompt "Jackbox Party Pack Games", Word Spud appears as an answer.
	+ On the Pack 10 start menu a potato is placed on a shelf near the stack of Party Pack 1 games.
		- In addition, in one of the idle animation easter eggs on the start menu, a Word Spud screensaver appear on Jerri's computer.
	+ According to the website, Word Spud 2 will release in 3145.
* The fonts used are Courier New, Effra Medium, Effra Light & TVNordEFOP-Heavy.