Halloween Party Games: 20 Games for Adults, Kids and Big Groups

The best Halloween party games need nothing but your guests: costume charades, Halloween trivia, spooky Truth or Dare, Halloween Would You Rather and a round of Werewolf. Most run on one phone, which supplies the prompts, the timer and the score, so you can start the moment people arrive in costume.

Below are 20 Halloween party games for adults, kids and big groups, sorted by who they suit, plus picks for the office.

Key takeaways

• For adults indoors with no supplies, play costume charades, spooky Truth or Dare, Halloween Most Likely To and Werewolf.

• For kids and adults together, play Halloween charades, Halloween Pictionary and Halloween Would You Rather.

• For big groups and the office, play Halloween trivia or a Halloween survey game in teams.

• CardYard has free Halloween charades and Spooky Truth or Dare decks, and you can type "Halloween" as your own theme in most other games.

Halloween party games at a glance

Halloween party games for adults

These work indoors with no supplies, which is what most adult hosts search for.

1. Costume charades

Each guest acts out their own costume without words, and everyone else guesses. It's funnier once people commit, and it shows off every costume in the room.

2. Halloween charades

Halloween charades has 60 family-safe ideas, like a mummy wrapping bandages or a skeleton learning to dance. Split into two teams and play in the free Charades generator with the Halloween deck, which gives each actor a word and a timer.

3. Spooky Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare has a free Spooky category with horror and Halloween truths and dares. To play on separate phones, open Truth or Dare online in a CardYard Room.

4. Halloween Would You Rather

Open Would You Rather and type "Halloween" as the theme for questions like "would you rather spend a night in a haunted house or a corn maze." Everyone answers before anyone explains.

5. Halloween Most Likely To

Read Most Likely To scenarios with a Halloween theme, such as "most likely to survive a horror movie," and everyone points at once.

6. Werewolf

A narrator picks a few players in secret to be werewolves. Each "night," everyone closes their eyes while the werewolves point at a victim; each "day," the village debates and votes someone out. The village wins if it finds every werewolf first. It needs a narrator and nothing else.

7. Imposter

Imposter is a one-phone bluffing game for 3 to 12 players: everyone sees the same secret word except the Imposter. Use the free movies pack, give clues, and vote out the Imposter before they guess the word.

8. Horror movie hot takes

Hot Take Court puts a hot take on trial, and the room votes guilty or innocent. Type "horror movies" as the theme for takes like "the original is always scarier than the remake."

Halloween games for kids and adults together

9. Halloween trivia

Open Trivia, type "Halloween" as the theme, and read one question with four options at a time. Teams lock in an answer before you reveal it. Mix easy questions for kids with harder ones about Halloween history.

10. Halloween Pictionary

Open Pictionary and type "Halloween" as the theme for words like haunted house, black cat or candy corn. Each team's drawer sketches against the timer.

11. Halloween Taboo

In Taboo, the clue-giver describes a word without saying the forbidden words on the card. Type "Halloween" as the theme for words like cauldron and skeleton.

12. Hue Hunt

In Hue Hunt, one player gives a short color clue like "pumpkin" or "witch's hat," and 2 to 10 players guess on a board of 480 colors. It suits a calmer corner of the party.

13. Costume contest

Pick categories before the party, such as scariest, funniest, best group costume and best homemade. Everyone votes by show of hands at the end of the night.

Halloween party games for large groups and the office

14. Halloween survey game

Survey Feud gives the host a question with five top answers and point values. Type "Halloween" as the theme for questions like "name a popular Halloween candy," and let two teams compete.

15. Horror movie Fishbowl

In Fishbowl, 4 to 12 players each add words to the bowl, then teams describe, act and give one-word clues across three rounds. Ask everyone to add horror movie titles and monsters.

16. Hot potato pumpkin

Open Stop the Timer in Random Bomb mode and pass a small pumpkin around with the phone. Whoever holds the pumpkin when the hidden countdown ends answers a spooky Would You Rather question.

Halloween party games for kids

17. Guess the sound in the dark

Record a few spooky sounds on a phone, such as a creaking door or a howl, dim the lights, and let kids guess each one.

18. Monster freeze dance

Play spooky music and let kids dance like monsters. When the music stops, everyone freezes; anyone who moves sits out the next round.

19. Mummy wrap race

Pair kids up and give each pair a roll of toilet paper. The first team to wrap one player head to toe as a mummy wins.

20. Pumpkin carving relay

Instead of carving, let teams draw faces on pumpkins with markers, one feature per player, in relay order. Judge the scariest and the silliest.

Do people play board games on Halloween?

Some do. Board game fans pull out themed games such as Betrayal at House on the Hill, Mysterium, Horrified and One Night Ultimate Werewolf. Most Halloween parties play quicker party games, though: trivia, charades, Would You Rather and costume games that anyone can join without learning rules. All of the party games above run on a phone, so nobody needs to own a box.

Tips for hosting Halloween party games

• Start with costumes. Costume charades and the costume contest get everyone involved early.

• Keep it optional. Let guests watch or cheer instead of playing.

• Match the scare level to the room. Keep spooky Truth or Dare and horror hot takes for adults and teens.

• Plan one game per hour. A warm-up, a team game, a quieter game, then the costume vote.

For more ideas, browse our online party games.