Earwax

Earwax is one of the games featured in The Jackbox Party Pack 2. This game relies on sound to fill out funny prompts like “The craziest football halftime show.” and see is the appointed judge finds your choice of [trumpet sound followed by a wet fart] beats out [donkey braying followed by a long fart]. Did we mention you could use fart sound effects?

Game Mechanic[]

The game plays out in a similar manner to Cards Against Humanity, except you answer with sound effects instead of words/phrases. During each round, a player is randomly selected as a Judge (the same player will not be selected as Judge a second time until all players have been selected once). The Judge for the round gets to pick a prompt for all other players to use.

Each non-judge player is then given a random list of six sound effects to use. They must pick 2 of these sound effects that they feel would best suit the prompt. Crucially, the players do not get to preview the sound effects, so they must make a choice based solely on the name of each sound effect. Once all players have submitted their choices (or after time has run out), each player's sound combos are played in turn, with the creators name left hidden to prevent bias.

After all sounds are played, the Judge has a limited amount of time to decide which is their favourite. During this time, they have the option to replay any of the combos. Other players and members of the audience are allowed to vote on their favourite as well, but the final winner for the round is decided by the Judge. Whichever combo the Judge selects as their favourite wins the round and gains 1 point and a new round begins with a newly appointed Judge.

The game continues until 1 player reaches 3 points and is crowned the winner.

Characters[]

Achievements[]

Aural Surgeon – Win the game and win the most likes
Bodily Malfunction – Go an entire game without using any bodily function SFX
Sound Body – Win a round using two bodily function SFX
Yada Yada – Win a round with two voice SFX

Promotional Art[]

Trivia[]

By checking the game's SWF files; the names of the player characters are revealed.
- They are TV, TuxBunny, Toast, Seal, Pot, Poop, Plate, Octopus, Moon, Monkey, Mime, IceCream, Hat, Egg, Dolphin, Cookie, Chick, CatHat, Bunny, Bat & Apple.
The fonts used are Unibody 8 Pro Black, Swiss 721 BT, Swiss 721 Italic BT, Swiss 721 Condensed BT, Swiss 721 Black Condensed BT, Swiss 721 Black BT, Swiss 721 Black Extended BT & JackExtraCond
Dolphin's losing spite is missing a pixel in one of it's tail bends.
Chick's winning sprite has their legs go from 2 pixels wide to 3 pixels wide in one of their frames.
Bat is the only character who consistently uses 2 frames for all of their sprites.

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Earwax

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Game Mechanic[]

Characters[]

Achievements[]

Promotional Art[]

Trivia[]

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