The English teacher secretly keeps ___ in her desk.
Matt's last YouTube search: "Monkeys ___."
a "Learn to Belly Dance" DVD
wearing Grandma's false teeth
★ Coming to Steam — November 2027

Family game night
just got hilariously weird.

The family-friendly party game with bite — where everyone takes a turn being the punchline, and the jokes get gross, weird, and flat-out ridiculous.

Play on your TV, control from everyone's phone. Submit your silliest answers, cheer for your favorites, and crown a champion!

Wishlist on Steam ▶  Watch the trailer — 100 seconds of game night ↓

The trailer

See a game night happen.

The whole game, built for the room you're already in. Run it on the PC hooked up to your TV — or any screen everyone can see — and the whole table plays along from the phones already in their pockets. Nobody installs anything but you.

Windows & macOS · Up to 8 players · One-time purchase · Coming November 2027

What you get

One purchase. Every mode. Forever.

No subscription, no ads, no nickel-and-diming. Buy it once and it's yours — every mode, every future update, every party.

The Full Game
  • All four modes, unlimited games
  • Up to 8 players per game
  • 15 AI Award Ceremonies — a custom-written, fully voiced awards show that roasts your table at game over
  • 300+ prompts, 140+ adjectives and 780+ answer cards
  • All future cards and updates included
Wishlist on Steam

Launching November 2027. Wishlisting costs nothing — and Steam emails you the moment it goes live.

How it works

Grab a TV. Grab your phones.

1
Open on the TV

One player launches Take a Joke on the big screen — a PC wired to the TV, a laptop, whatever the room can see. A QR code and a 5-character room code appear for everyone else.

2
Join from your phone

Scan the QR or enter the 5-character room code. No app download, no account — just your name and you're in.

3
Submit your answers

The TV shows a prompt. Players choose their wittiest card from their hand and submit on their phone.

4
A winner is chosen

Cards are revealed one by one on the big screen. The judge picks their favorite — or everyone votes. Points are tallied until a champion is crowned.

Pick your mode

Mix and match your game.

How do you answer?

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Classic Cards

Each player gets a hand of pre-written cards to choose from. Quick to learn, no typing required — just pick the funniest one.

Best for: first-timers and younger players

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Write Your Own

Players type their own made-up answers. More creative, more personal — the jokes come from your group's imagination.

Best for: creative players and improv fans

How is the winner picked?

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Judge Decides

One player picks their favorite answer each round. The judge rotates every round so everyone gets a turn — including the kids.

Best for: fast rounds and big reveal moments

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Player Vote

Everyone votes for their favorite. If there's a tie, a rotating tiebreaker reader makes the final call — so it's always fair.

Best for: larger groups and democratic chaos

What's on the screen?

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Players Only

Every single prompt is about somebody in the room. Nobody is safe — that's the point.

Best for: groups who know each other well

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Mixed

The whole deck: everyday chaos and oddball characters, plus plenty of prompts about the people at the table.

Best for: a little bit of everything

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AdjectivesNEW

The screen shows one word — Greasy. Suspicious. Majestic. — and everyone plays the card from their hand that fits it best. Or worst. “Majestic: Dana’s morning breath.”

Best for: fast rounds and the youngest players

What you get

Built for family game night.

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Phone controllers

Everyone plays from their own phone. No controllers, no downloads, no hassle.

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TV display

The game lives on a shared screen. Prompts, reveals, and scoreboard all on the big screen.

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300+ prompts, 140+ adjectives, 780+ answers

Enough content for dozens of game nights without repeating yourself — and we keep adding more.

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3–8 players

Works for small family gatherings and larger get-togethers. The more, the funnier!

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Your name in the game

Player nicknames appear directly in prompts and answer cards. The jokes are about your group too, not just fictional characters.

Sound familiar?

Made for fans of Jackbox, Cards Against Humanity, Kids Against Maturity, and Apples to Apples.

Jackbox (Quiplash)
In common Phones as controllers, fill-in-the-blank prompts on the big screen, no install required.
Take a Joke adds 780+ pre-written answer cards — so you're picking the funniest, not staring at a blank prompt trying to be funny on demand.
Cards Against Humanity
In common Fill-in-the-blank prompts, answers submitted anonymously — the funniest answer is chosen each round.
Take a Joke adds Same fill-in-the-blank chaos, just clean enough for kids. Absurd, embarrassing, character zingers, gross-out — Take a Joke still goes there. The line we hold is no swearing, no sex, and no adult content. Everything else is fair game.
Kids Against Maturity
In common Family-friendly fill-in-the-blank designed to make the whole room laugh — kids and adults together.
Take a Joke adds No physical deck to buy, track, or shuffle. Everyone plays from their phone, right from the couch.
Apples to Apples
In common Clean, all-ages card humor the whole family can play together — and the classic way to play is built right in. Adjectives mode puts one word on the screen, and everyone plays the card that fits it best.
Take a Joke adds Cards with your names on them (“Majestic: Dana’s morning breath”). A deck that keeps growing instead of a box that never changes. Nothing to shuffle, deal or lose. A narrator who reads every word out loud. And when one word isn’t enough, two more modes of full fill-in-the-blank sentences.
What every game gets with Take a Joke
👥 Your names, in the cards. Player names appear in both the prompts and the answers — the jokes are about the people in the room too, not just fictional characters.
💬 Sentences that actually make sense. Pronouns update automatically so every answer reads like a real sentence, not word soup.
🃏 A deck that keeps growing. 300+ prompts, 140+ adjectives and 780+ answer cards today — and we keep adding new ones and retiring the duds. They show up on their own; there’s no expansion pack to buy.
📱 Nothing to shuffle, deal or lose. Hands deal themselves, the score keeps itself, and the whole game lives on the TV and everyone’s phones.
✏️ Write-in mode too. Prefer inventing your own answers? Switch on write-in mode and go completely off-script.
🎙️ A narrator with opinions. Every prompt gets read out loud, the table gets heckled between rounds, and the full game ends with a voiced awards show that roasts your group.