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The Poll Mine - vs The World. Easier solution

By Magic Martin

[ATTENTION - THIS SOLUTION DOES NOT WORK WITH CURRENT PATCHES AS OF AUGUST 2024]

This solution for getting the very notorious achievement "vs the world" in The Jackbox Party Pack 8 is a much easier solution than other online guides I've found. It does not require any use of your browser, any noteworthy processing power and is almost plug and play.

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to get the achievement:

1. Open The Jack Box Party Pack 8 and open The Poll Mine. When the lobby is open and waiting for people to join, take note of the room code. Keep the lobby open. Make sure that audience is turned on in the settings and that there are no limits to how many people can join.
2. Dowload Python.
2.1 On Windows 11, open powershell (you can do this by going to the windows search bar and write powershell and clicking on it when windows have found it) and enter python. Then press enter. The windows store-page for python should pop up and you can install python from there. If this does not work. Download python through your browser (python.org) and install it.
2.2 On Mac/Linux, download Python 3.10 through your browser (python.org) and install it.
3. Download this program from github. The link to that is https://github.com/Naxaes/jackbox-pollmine-vs-the-world.
4. Extract the files to wherever.
5. Open the folder.
6. Right click on the file called main.py.
7. Choose "Open with" and select python (for me this is Python 3.10).
7.1 On Mac, this is replaced by python launcher 3
8. The program will run and a request in a command prompt-window will pop up.
9. Enter your room-code and press enter.
10. After a few moments, Jackbox will register a thousand people to have joined the audience and the achievement should pop up.

That's it! This solution is very easy, takes no skill and works on Windows 11, Mac and Linux.

If you run into any issues, please consult the README-file in the folder that you downloaded.
If you get stuck in a neverending loading-screen in The Jackbox Party Pack 8 after having messed up and not getting this achievement by following this guide, you might have been given a timeout from the server, I ran into this while testing the code. Wait a few hours, make sure you follow each step properly before trying again. If you still run into any big issues, leave a comment on this guide and we will get back to you.

Credit to Naxaes for writing the program. He noticed my frustration and wrote this program in about an hour, what a hero!

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Method

Troubleshooting

Thanks

Comments

Introduction

Here we describe the issue

Method

Here we desicribe how to get the achievement through ten easy steps

Troubleshooting

Here we discuss any issues you might run into while following this guide.

Thanks

Here I thank the writer of the program used to get this achievement.

9 Comments

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Magic Martin [author] 23 Aug, 2024 @ 12:44am

Well, in a sense they're talking about scripts like this, yes. However, the game has many settings in place to avoid scripts like this to have malicious effect. You can hide the room code, limit players, limit or disable audience etc. etc. so I doubt that this could be used to grief people successfully. It's a shame that Jackbox Games do not want to focus on this but I understand that there lies no business value in adapting for such a small player base as the achievement hunters are.

Mike 22 Aug, 2024 @ 10:14pm

I’ve reached out to Jackbox about this problem. This is threir response:

Hello,
Thank you for taking the time to reach out. We have been made aware that this particular achievement is frustrating for achievement hunters, however, we're unable to change it at this stage.

Unfortunately, some bad actors like to spin up bots to spam people's games/ streams, so I think you're running into protection against that.

We're sorry we can't be more helpful,
Jackbox Customer Service

Magic Martin [author] 18 Aug, 2024 @ 10:28am

I am not the one who wrote the code, Naxaes is. Sadly he is very hard to get in touch with but try sending him a message and ask him and maybe he'll respond

Carlisle165 18 Aug, 2024 @ 4:59am

Gahhh I just missed out on this by the looks of it. Are you going to rework the code to try to fix this?

Magic Martin [author] 15 Aug, 2024 @ 2:15pm

Yes, this particular solution does not quite work anymore and the code needs to be tweaked. I am glad it worked for so many for as long as it did, though.

Mike 14 Aug, 2024 @ 11:41pm

Thank you for the progam though!

Mike 14 Aug, 2024 @ 11:40pm

Apparently this method doesn’t work anymore. Somehow it stops adding audience members. Even manually adding new members doesn’t work at that point: the room cannot be found

Ashthulhu 30 Aug, 2023 @ 5:47pm

Hi there, my PC cannot seem to run Python without crashing in about 0.5 seconds. I've tried countless times with no luck. I'm on Windows 10 with 32 GB of RAM,so there should be no reason my computer can't run it. Do you have any suggestions or alternatives that may work?

Chisspree 3 Aug, 2023 @ 1:34pm

Worked! Thank you so much!

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