Decided to have a Halloween party this year, and looking for inspiration on what social games to play? Perhaps you’re hosting for friends and family and need something for everyone? Asmodee has got you covered! Below, we explore the best social games for Halloween for all ages, ranging from games for everyone to enjoy, to ones that will be popular with the kids in particular.
Halloween games for kids
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Apple bobbing - an absolute classic!
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Mummy wrapping - think kids running round wrapped in toilet paper
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Halloween scavenger hunt - use sweets or spooky items like fake spiders for the children to find
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Pictionary - use a standard Pictionary set like the one available at asmodee and improvise to create a Halloween version
Halloween games for adults
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Halloween-themed beer pong - a spooky take on the classic drinking game.
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Create your own escape room at home using Halloween-related puzzles that guests can solve in order to escape.
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Get creative and hold a pumpkin carving competition for you and your guests - made even better if played after beer pong!
Halloween Board Games
Are you a board game loving family? Or perhaps your friends attending your Halloween party have requested board games as opposed to classic Halloween games. Whatever floats your boat! We’ve got plenty of board games at asmodee, perfect for a Halloween party or game night.
Bananagrams Halloween Party
A great option suitable for ages 10+ is Bananagrams Halloween Party - the wicked word game full of tricks and treats. This is a spooky take on the original Bananagrams, a word game using letter tiles to build a grid of words. The first player to use all their tiles to build words wins! The Halloween version features letter tiles with a spooky twist - think Halloween-related words to find, tricky challenges and sweet treats! A game for the whole family to enjoy.
BOOoop
Another board game ideal for your Halloween celebrations! BOOoop is a limited Halloween edition of the popular board game Boop, where the aim is to get three cats in a row to win. These start out as kittens and have to be lined up into three and graduated into cats in order to move on to the next stage of the game. Sounds easy, right? Not so much when you and your opponent are both ‘booping’ kittens around left, right and centre!
Blood on the Clocktower
Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing board game of murder and mystery, lies and logic, deduction and deception. Designed for five to twenty players, the perfect fit for a Halloween game night with family and friends! To begin, players must divide themselves into opposing teams of both good and evil. You’ll also need to assign one of the players as storyteller, whose job it will be to make major decisions and run all the action! Both teams will essentially work to eliminate one another. The evil players' main goal is to destroy the town, and the good players are trying to find the demon from the evil team to execute him.
Mysterium
This is the perfect spooky board game for Halloween. Players must dare to walk through the haunted Mysterium manor and discover the mysterious circumstances of the ghost's death. This can only be achieved through visions and clues from the ghost itself! Players must split into two groups, psychics (the ones doing the solving) and the ghosts (your job will be to give clues surrounding your death). And you don’t have all night to solve this mystery, at dawn, the ghosts will disappear, taking the secrets of their death to the grave with them!
Halloween Card Games
Tricks & Treats
A fast-paced, family-friendly bluffing card game for two to four players, which involves splitting up your Halloween sweets fairly into buckets or baskets and the main aim is to have the most sweets by the end of the game. This can be achieved by guessing whose basket is whose in order to steal all their sweets and be in with a chance of winning the game!
Arkham Horror: Lovecraft Letter
This is a chilling twist of the classic game Arkham Horror, designed for around two to six players - ideal for small Halloween gatherings! It is a game of absolute push-your-luck deduction, facing eldritch horrors and uncovering crazy allies in a tense battle of wits. Sounds very fitting for a Halloween-themed game night, right? Get stocked up ready for your spooky night with friends.
Halloween party games for all ages
Want something that absolutely everyone can get involved in? It’s hard to cater to all ages, and you want everyone at your party to have fun, whether they’re an adult or a child. So why not go back to basics and play some of the classic Halloween party games! Discover some of the best ones below.
Costume contest
A Halloween party classic - a costume contest! All you’ll need is a pen and a piece of paper. Give a piece to all of your guests and ask them to write down whose costume they think is the best (don’t forget to do one yourself), count up all the answers, and whoever has received the most votes is the winner. To be an extra good host, have a prize ready to give to the winner!
Guess the amount of sweets or chocolate
Another great game enjoyed by all ages is a ‘Guess the amount’ game. Grab a bowl or a jar and fill it with Halloween sweets or chocolate, then ask everyone to guess the amount that’s inside (you might want to use a pen and paper again for this). Then whoever is closest to the amount of sweets in the jar wins, just don’t forget to count the amount yourself before putting them in!
The perfect games for Halloween
Now that you’ve discovered an array of games perfect for your upcoming Halloween celebrations, all that’s left to do is get organised and choose which party games you’re going to play and find a local game store to purchase them. If you have any questions about any of the games sold on our site, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our friendly team of gaming experts!
