Halloween Contests for Adults: Flickr Traditionally, Halloween isn't just about carving pumpkins, dressing up, and begging for candy. Games and entertainment are no less common. How can adults have fun and what games can they play on the most mysterious holiday?
What Halloween competitions are there for adults? There is a lot of entertainment: “Chamber of Horror”, “Bloody Mary”, “Denunciation to Count Dracula”, “Pumpkin Explosion”, catching apples from a barrel with your mouth. Let's talk about each of them in more detail.
"Room of Horror"
Halloween is a modern international holiday that incorporates the traditions of the ancient Celts. Wood Wanda in the book “Halloween. Terribly delicious recipes for All Saints' Day" says that the terrible holiday is celebrated annually on October 31. One of the favorite pastimes of people on this day is visiting a panic room. You can experience unforgettable emotions not only in the amusement park, but also at home.
How to hold a “Chamber of Horror” contest for Halloween? The owner of the house or the organizer of a Halloween party tells the guests that one of the rooms is hiding something terrible. So creepy that every person caught in it screams in horror. The party host then asks if there is a volunteer willing to visit the panic room.
Together with the daredevil, the organizer goes to a prepared room in which the lights are turned off and a candle is burning. The volunteer is given the opportunity to blow it out with a loud scream. After completing the task, the party host takes the participant who completed the task to another room and goes to the rest of the guests, asking if there are anyone else who wants to visit the secret place.
With each new person who wants to tickle their nerves, everything repeats itself, and tension and fear among the guests at this time increase. Daredevils are given memorable prizes, and those who refuse to visit the creepy room are given punishment. For example, fulfilling a wish.
Halloween Memorabilia Gifts: Pexels
Description of tasks
(key places where you can hide hints and surprises are indicated in brackets)
- Creepy treat (chair, bench, your choice). A colorful task for attentiveness and visual perception.
- Witchcraft potions (mirror, pillar, your choice). A fascinating logical and mathematical task for quick thinking.
- Tricky rebus (newspaper, stone, your choice). A task in which we combined a rebus and tangled threads.
- Hidden letters (TV, gate, your option). A fun observation task.
- Magic runes (kitchen drawer, porch, your choice). Cunning encryption, a puzzle for ingenuity.
- Jack-o'-lantern (bed, package, your choice). An interesting logical task.
- Enchanted path (bag, bush, your option). An unusual type of cipher, a challenge for intelligence. The original key will help you decipher the clue word.
- Witch's room (washing machine, hat, your choice). You need to find differences in two seemingly identical pictures.
- Puzzle (wardrobe, fence, your option). To find out the next search location, you need to collect a colorful picture cut into 12 parts.
- Dungeon map (window sill, car, your option). An original word maze. Players need to put together a phrase following the indicated route.
Attention! For those who want to use other places or organize a quest for several teams, the kit offers a decoder template in which you only need to edit one page.
Additionally included are templates for editing:
- A decoder with which you can conduct a quest anywhere by editing just one page.
- Colorful Halloween party invitation.
- Certificate for completing the quest.
Templates are provided in doc format with the ability to edit the text in Microsoft Word.
The kit is offered in electronic form - you will need to print everything you need yourself on a printer (sheet format when printing A4).
A super set of Halloween printable templates as a gift!
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Super set of Halloween printable templates includes: invitations, 3 types of candy boxes, round toppers, round and square stickers, straw flags, bottle labels in two sizes, cupcake decorations, 4 types of wrapping paper (for making wrappers for chocolate, cards, etc.), stretching.
And also a set of colorful Halloween masks!
"Bloody Mary"
This competition is based on the perfect Halloween cocktail, the Bloody Mary. The classic drink recipe contains vodka, tomato juice, salt, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice and hot sauce. The cocktail turns out piquant and terrifying, reminiscent of blood.
If desired, the drink recipe can be changed. For example, add more hot sauce to it to experience a vivid sensation.
How to hold a Bloody Mary contest for Halloween? The rules are simple:
- First, prepare the Bloody Mary cocktail in a large container. Its quantity depends on how many people participate in the competition.
- Stand or sit in a circle.
- Fill one glass with cocktail.
- When the host turns on the music, pass the glass around until the music stops.
- The one who spills the drink or the one on whom the music ends becomes a Bloody Mary. Participants inform him of this with the phrase: “Now you are Bloody Mary.”
- The losing player drinks the cocktail glass to the bottom and is eliminated from the competition.
- The glass is refilled with the drink and the competition continues until there is only one winner left.
Bloody Mary cocktail for Halloween competition: Pixabay
Preparing to meet vampires
Each participant receives a bag of garlic heads (the same amount for everyone). At the “start” command, each participant begins to prepare for the meeting with vampires - peeling garlic. Moreover, you have to clean it only with your hands - without the help of foreign objects. After a minute, the presenter gives the command “stop”, after which he counts the peeled cloves of garlic for each participant. The three most dexterous and prepared to meet vampires are awarded prizes, for example, donuts with garlic, because students are often hungry, and garlic is just the theme.
Catching apples from a barrel with your mouth
This traditional British game has been around for centuries. The British love the apple catching competition so much that they hold it not only on Halloween. As William Pokhlebkin explains in his book “Kitchen of the Century,” the game is traditionally held on November 5—Guy Fawkes Night.
How to hold a competition to catch apples from a barrel with your mouth on Halloween? Here are the rules of the game:
- Prepare a large container. A barrel, a large saucepan, or a basin will do.
- Pour water at a comfortable temperature into it.
- Throw pre-washed apples into the container.
- At the leader’s command, catch the apples with your mouth.
- The one who manages to get the fruit the fastest wins.
You can catch apples for a while. Then the one who gets the most apples in one game session (30 seconds, a minute) wins.
Halloween Contests for Adults: Flickr
"The Secret of Destination"
What Halloween games are there for 10 year olds? Children at this age prefer games with a touch of humor and mysticism. Schoolchildren will definitely enjoy the unusual game “The Secret of Destiny.” Here is the order of the game:
- The adult takes on the function of leader and judge. He writes the roles of the participants on cards - vampire, demon, sorcerer, werewolf.
- The cards are fixed on the backs of the players. Everyone can read the names of everyone else's roles, but cannot recognize who he is.
- During the allotted time, players ask questions about their “title” to other children. In this case, you can only answer “Yes” or “No”.
- At the end of time, players tell the host what they think is written on the card. Those who guess correctly or are closest to the solution win.
As gifts, you can offer the winners themed sweets - candies and cookies in the shape of pumpkins, skulls, gloomy faces, ghosts, spiders.
"Denunciation to Count Dracula"
This is a unique variation of the well-known game “Broken Phone”. How to hold the “Denunciation to Count Dracula” contest for Halloween? You don't need any additional attributes to play, you just need to turn off or dim the lights. Here's how to play the game:
- Participants sit in one row.
- The last guest quietly, so that others do not hear, speaks into the neighbor’s ear any denunciation phrase about Count Dracula.
- Participants take turns passing information to each other.
- The first player loudly announces the denunciation he received through his comrades.
- When the phrase spoken by the last participant does not match the one spoken by the first player, team members find out who made the mistake and when. This guest is eliminated from the game.
- The competition lasts until there are three winners left. They are awarded memorable prizes.
Contents of the kit
- postcard to start the game (jpg file)
- recommendations for the leader on preparing and conducting the quest (pdf file, 2 pages)
- assignments (pdf file, 10 pages)
- answers (pdf file, 10 pages)
- two ready-made versions of the decoder and two layouts of tasks - for conducting the quest at home and on the street (in the courtyard of a private house) (doc files with the ability to edit text in Microsoft Word)
- invitation to a party with the ability to edit the text (doc file)
- certificate for completing the quest (doc file)
- super set of printable templates “Halloween” (pdf file, 27 pages)
- set of Halloween masks (pdf file, 12 pages)
Quest plot
The plot of the street quest with the search for a gift is based on the theme of the Halloween holiday and sweets stolen from children, which they have to find and return. Detailed plot: Strange and mysterious adventures always happen on Halloween. One of these adventures awaits children too. Their sweets have gone missing and now the kids must fight the evil forces of Halloween to find the treats. And for this, the quest participants need to complete tasks in which the main characters are the symbols of Halloween - a witch, a black cat, spiders, etc. You can make up for the loss of sweets (or a gift) either by throwing a note, or by throwing empty candy wrappers in any convenient place. Having found wrappers instead of sweets, children will wonder where the sweets went. And then, along with the initial letter, the children receive the first task, which, if solved correctly, will lead to a new cache with a new task, and so the Halloween adventures for the little participants begin.
Detailed description of the quest
With this quest you can easily and cheerfully play out finding sweets or giving a gift (surprise) for Halloween to children.
♦ Age category of participants: from 6 to 10 years. ♦ Time to complete the quest: up to 40 minutes. ♦ Purpose of the quest: the main goal of the quest is the original presentation of a gift or the search for sweets by children for Halloween in the courtyard of the house, on the street or in the playground. After completing all the tasks, the participants will find the main hiding place in which the quest organizer knowingly hid the prepared gift (a themed surprise or sweets). The quest is intended for finding a gift in the form of a role-playing game (searching for hidden places) at a children's party in the Halloween style or as a practical joke (congratulations) to a child or children on the street, playground, in the courtyard of a house, during the Halloween holiday. ♦ Location: the quest is intended to be carried out on the street or in the courtyard of a house, on a playground and other open areas of the area in which the hiding places indicated below are provided. ♦ Number of participants: the quest has two main formats: ◊ for 1 person (sweet seeker or gift recipient) - only one quest participant is looking for a gift (sweets). ◊ joint (group) search for a gift (sweets) - in this case, all children who wish can take part in solving quest tasks and jointly searching for the main gift. ♦ Tasks: All tasks are completely ready for the quest. You just have to choose the most suitable places - caches for your location and print out cards with tasks. The quest consists of 10 cards and 10 hiding places, respectively. All tasks are thought out in such a way that, at the request of the quest organizer, any cards can be removed or their sequence can be changed. This opportunity will allow the organizer to construct his ideal quest using suitable hiding places. ♦ Quest genre: street quest with a search for a gift. ♦ Hiding places in the quest: ◊ Pillar ◊ Stone ◊ Firewood ◊ Sand ◊ Stump ◊ On a tree ◊ Bucket ◊ Broom ◊ Bush ◊ In a bag ♦ Necessary props: pencil or pen for filling out the answers. ♦ The finished quest kit includes three PDF files : 1 . The file “Instructions for the quest” contains a detailed list of necessary actions to prepare the quest for implementation. 2 . The “Quest” file contains all the cards with tasks that the participants will need to solve. 3. The “Quest with answers” file contains the entire list of tasks with detailed answers. These files will need to be printed on a black and white or color printer. ♦ Other quests on the site: ⇒ Quests up to 10 years old ⇒ Quests up to 16 years old ⇒ Quests from 18 years old
Werewolf Potion
Requires preliminary preparation. Edible ingredients are poured and poured into containers of various sizes and shapes. An “alchemist” is selected from those who wish. He collects 3-5 random containers, from which he mixes a “potion” in any proportions (for example, a pinch of powder from a jar, a glass of one liquid and 3 drops of another) and comes up with who the recipient turns into. The remaining werewolf players must take a sip of the potion and determine who they turned into and why. The winner is the one who guessed what the alchemist intended, or the one who came up with the best explanation.
