Tips When Seeking Halloween Party Games

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At this year’s Halloween party, your young ones will love a dance contest, Halloween bingo, classic ring toss game and a pinata. As long as you have Halloween recipes for cupcakes, they’ll be happy. For pre-teens, you’ll need creative options, such as a scavenger hunt, a story contest and Halloween twister. Teenagers may enjoy role playing games, Ouija boards, tarot cards or creating their own films. Adults may be more inclined to have a “murder mystery dinner,” play a few wild Halloween drinking games or watch a horror movie. No matter what age you’re planning for, Halloween fun is there if you seek it.

Halloween party games for younger kids can range from silly Halloween fun and getting-to-know-you games, to spooky ghost story telling and puzzle solving. An easy first game is “The Name Game,” where index cards with monster or Halloween character names written on them are affixed to the back of each guest. Then the person asks another guest “yes or no” questions until the right answer is guessed. Some kids love “pumpkin golf,” which is a homemade golf game made out of a cardboard ramp, a carved pumpkin with an extremely large smile and a mini-golf set.

“Ghost hunter” scavenger hunts always go over well for grade school children. First wrap lollipops up like ghosts using white tissue paper and a black magic marker. Then hide them around the house and write clues about where they could be. To make it more competitive, create teams, such as “the witches,” “the goblins” or “the werewolves,” and have each team race back to place their lollipops into a bin as they find them, awarding a special prize to the winning team.

Or you may want to put a letter on each ghost that will form ten different Halloween words and award prizes as the kids guess them. You can also turn on “The Monster Mash” and have kids dance like monsters, freezing when the music is stopped. This will definitely have them cackling at the Halloween fun! Check out www.partygamecentral.com for more do-it-yourself ideas.

Halloween party board games can definitely be a ton of Halloween fun, particularly for teenagers. “Last Night On Earth” is the latest and greatest zombie game, which sold amazingly well at Amazon and FunAgain in 2007. Players choose character roles with different skills and abilities, and try to race across the map to kill the undead, find weapons and useful items, all before sunrise. A zombie master will raise the dead and push them into ambush positions to thwart the other players’ efforts. For a longer role playing/cooperative adventure game (3 hours compared to 1), try “Arkham Horror & Expansions,” where kids race to keep the arch nemesis from opening demon portals, eating all the first born baby heads and remaking horrible 80s TV shows. “Tannhauser” is a WWI strategy game where German occult units battle American Special Forces in their attempt to release demon hordes. “Betrayal at House on the Hill” is a different sort of board game, where players build a haunted house by drawing board tiles. One of the players will become the traitor, which makes for a delightful twist. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Boooo-opoly” are also great Halloween party games that will appeal to slightly younger kids.

One of the best Halloween party games for adults is the “murder mystery dinner.” Each party member will receive an advance invitation with instructions on the role they’ll be playing. In your kit, you’ll receive instructions on Halloween recipes to cook, what Halloween decorations to set up and even how to dress. Usually, character booklets, scripts and CD or DVDs will guide you through the plot to discover whodunnit. A few recommended murder mystery games include: “Lethal Luau Murder Mystery Party Game” with a Hawaiian theme, “A Taste for Wine and Murder” with a Hollywood theme or “A Murder on the Grill” with a summer of 1950s theme. All are from Bepuzzled.

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