15 Halloween Game Ideas to Try After You’ve Carved All the Pumpkins

Directions

1. Pin the Brooch on Alexander: With eyes covered, players try to attach an ornate brooch to a poster showing the mystical vaudeville magician named Alexander.
2. Candy Corn Ring Toss: Set up orange safety cones to resemble giant candy corns, and use glow necklaces as rings. Assign point values to each cone. Players alternate tossing rings onto cones; after five rounds, the player with the most points wins.
3. Plastic Spider Races: Create a racetrack on a tabletop. Each player gets a plastic spider and a straw. They blow air through the straw to move their spider along the track; first spider to cross the finish line wins.
4. The Great Bake Down: Blend a murder mystery with a baking competition format, focusing on dessert-themed clues and challenges.
5. Halloween Bingo: Enjoy a classic bingo game using Halloween-themed images or words on the cards.
6. Spider in My Spaghetti: Place a plastic spider in a colander filled with uncooked spaghetti. Players take turns pulling out noodles one by one, trying not to let the spider fall.
7. Mummy Wrap: Teams compete to wrap one member from head to toe in toilet paper, creating a mummy costume.
8. Pumpkin Bowling: Arrange six to ten paper towel rolls as bowling pins. Use small pumpkins as bowling balls to knock them over.
9. Ticket to Ride: Ghost Train: Play the spooky variant where participants build parade paths through a haunted village to collect trick-or-treat bonuses.
10. Stabbin’ Pumpkins: Display a pumpkin and forks tagged with each player's name. Players sneak up to stab their fork into the pumpkin without getting caught. Anyone who is caught or is the last to stab loses.
11. The Hungry Ghost: Cut a large ghost shape from foam core board and cut an opening for the mouth. Players toss small pumpkins into the ghost's mouth.
12. Eyeball Hunt: Blindfold players and have them search through a bowl of cooked spaghetti to find slimy eyeballs. The one who collects the most eyeballs wins.
13. MonsDRAWsity: One player describes a monster from a card, and others draw it based solely on the description. Best drawing wins.
14. Pumpkin Putts: Carve a large mouth-shaped opening in a pumpkin. Use child-sized golf clubs and ping pong balls to putt the balls into the pumpkin's mouth.
15. Eyeball Dig: Tape pictures of eyes or large googly eyes around the yard for a neighborhood hunt. Participants compete to find the most missing eyeballs.