Playing scary board games on Halloween night!

[osenator]

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When we were kids, my brothers and me, we would play this board game on halloween night after trick or treating, staying up late, high on sugar, it really scared me the hell out of me, I really thought it was haunted for real (I was very young, okay!).

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Sadly, my father got rid of it long ago. I do remember playing some other scary games, in wich I still have a nice little collection of scary board games.

I know today, kids and teens play with Wija boards on Halloween, I even seen some pink ones at Toysrus (my wife didn't allow me to buy one (L).

Did you play scary boards when younger, on Halloween night too?

[osenator]

I also found this new version you can download for free

"Escape from the Haunted Mansion" Board Game

[hallorenescene]

ouija boards and an esp game are about the only things when i was young. i don't believe they had scary ones out then. my daughters time they had-are you afraid of the dark. maybe others but i don't remember them. now they have quite a few out and i have some of them. i guess we just play them, i never thought of playing them just on halloween. would be a fun night

[Biggie]

We have played scary video games in the past on halloween night, stuff like silent hill, resident evil. Never really played board games on halloween, unless you want to count how scarily awful I am at monopoly.

[Mr. Gris]

I am a board game nerd and I would love this one. I cant find Haunted Mansion on ebay which is strange. I can only find disney haunted mansion Clue or Life. I will have to add this game to my yard sale searches I suppose.

[Ghost of Spookie]

I also found this new version you can download for free

"Escape from the Haunted Mansion" Board Game

Very cool find Osenator! That's really nice that they did this and posted it for anyone to download. My brother and I use to love to make up our own board games so I know we would have appreciated something like this if it was available when we were kids.

As for the original question of the thread, we were way too busy after we got home from ToTing counting and sorting all of our bags of candy to play any games. The Haunted Mansion game was beyond my ToTing age but really looked cool. Too bad they don't bring it back. I love the changing wheels. Very nice board movement. I can see why you liked it. When I was a kid our family was really big on playing board games and putting together puzzles.

For anyone looking for a board game for halloween time (haven't played it but saw this recently), Things You Never Knew Existed has this board game called (I think) "Oh, No... Zombies!" No where near as cool as Haunted Mansion though.

A few years ago I picked up a DVD game called "The Gatekeeper Atmosfear" from Tuesday Morning.

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Love to hear about any other games out there that are suited for the holiday.

[kprimm]

I have many halloween related board games and also used to play on or around halloween ,pretty much the whole month of october.Halloween yhatzee,wich witch is which. I wish they made more halloween scary type games. Check out this place for some cool unique games.

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[whichypoo]

I love halloween games!! We would play ghost comes out at midnight untill we were forced to come inside. There were board games we had that I am still looking for . Green Ghost game. , 1313 dead end drive as an adult I got the nightmare and atmosfear and the extra videos to these games

[savagehaunter]

sounds like a cool tradition

[Buggula]

Hubby flat out refuses to use a Ouija board. He really believes bad things come from them.