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We've done the Tempt Your Fate game each of the past 4 years and it's been a BIG hit with everyone. I mix up the variety of the fates, throw in good and bad ones, and have gotten pretty creative with some of them. Apologies to whomever posted their long list of fates a few years back, but that was my original list from which I heavily borrowed.

On the other hand, however, the Winking Murderer game has never gone over too well. Had a problem with someone who didn't realize (derp) they were the murderer, so I appointed someone to just start winking. And then it just didn't work because people were spread all over the place. It just hasn't taken well to my party crowd.

But I want to add something new this year, so we'll see....
 
Here is my list of fates for my Tempting Fate game (also largely borrowed from previous posts). You'll see I have them grouped into dollar amounts... that's because each fate is written on the back of a fake bill that is also used for my "Anything for Money" game. That encourages people to be more active in both games. Synergy. :)

Fates for Tempt Fate game
5$
Take a body shot off of someone
Fate smiles upon you: Choose another fate and make someone else do it!
Sing everything you say for 10 minutes.
Free Money!
Free Money!
Jello Shot!
Jello Shot!
Jello Shot!
Jello Shot!
Choose someone to do a body shot off of you.
You have 20 minutes to scare or surprise someone so well that they scream or shriek. If you fail, you must tempt fate again.
You must go spank everyone playing a drinking game. If you fail then you must tempt fate again.
You are the victim of a GROUPSPANK!
You are a Cowboy (or Cowgirl). Grab a broom, that is your horse for the next 15 minutes. Ride it around and don’t forget to tell it ‘giddie up’ and ‘whoa’.
Go to someone you don’t know (or barely know) and tell them your most embarrassing story
Act like you ARE who you are dressed up as for the next 15 minutes. If you’re a zombie, just moan and try to eat people. If you’re batman, talk in a growl etc.
Do a jello body shot off someone. Don’t forget the whip cream chaser on their neck!
Come up with a porn star name for yourself that wins majority approval. That is your new name for the night.
Call a friend who is not at the party and convince them that Kid Rock is here.
For the next 10 minutes, you have to jump into EVERY picture taken at the party, whether at the photobooth or taken by a cell phone
Choose someone else to be the victim of a GROUPSPANK. Give them this bill after they’ve taken their punishment.
You are a mime for the next 5 minutes. No talking and whenever you are walking anywhere you must either be ‘pulling a rope’ or ‘feeling an invisible wall’ to get there.
Get everyone you can to take a group photo at the photobooth
Take a photo at the photobooth by yourself. Once you have the photo, on the back write “I like you, will you go out with me?” with checkboxes for yes, no, and maybe. Give it to whoever the group decides without saying a word and wait for an answer.
Whenever anyone says your name make a loud animal noise.
10$
Handcuffed to the nearest person of the opposite sex for 15 minutes
Fate turns you into a horse; for the next 5 minutes you give free piggy-back rides to anyone who wants one.
Receive a wedgie from the nearest person of the opposite sex
Hands tied behind your back for 5 minutes. Ask others to help you drink. I hope you don’t have to use the bathroom!
SECRET: Quietly tell someone of the opposite sex that your punishment is to get them to describe IN DETAIL their underwear (and bra if it’s a girl) to you. Color, shape, material, etc. Once they have done it, thank them and then loudly announce what you have learned to everyone at the party.
You have 5 minutes to convince two other people to tempt fate using any means at your disposal. If you fail then YOU must tempt fate twice.
You love drinking games. You take all the drinks from any drinking game for the next 2 minutes.
You have 2 minutes to kiss EVERYONE of the opposite sex (family excluded) on the face or you must tempt fate 2 more times
Convince at least 3 people of the opposite sex to pose for smutty photos in the photobooth. Each person must be kissing you in at least one of the photos and the other 2 must be ‘hands on’
SECRET: Tell everyone that your fate is to tell your most embarrassing secret, but make one up. The crazier the better, but make it believable
Free Money!
20$
SECRET: You are the slave of the next person to draw. Do not ask anyone to draw, let fate choose your master for you. Once they have drawn, announce your fate to them. Make sure you address them as Sir or Madam and do anything they ask (within reason) for the next 15 minutes.
Lick the neck of someone that you don’t know or barely know without asking permission. Then introduce yourself.
Find someone of the opposite sex that you do not know or barely know. You must keep both your hands on them for 5 minutes without explaining to them why you’re doing it. You can move your hands around on them as long as you are still making contact with some part of their body with both hands. If you break contact at any point within the 5 minutes then both of you do a shot AND you must tempt fate again.
You must be on all fours for the next 5 minutes. Crawl wherever you need to go. No sitting!
SECRET: Get on the dancefloor and dance. You cannot stop until at least 1 other person joins you but you CANNOT ask them or motion to them to join. They must be enthralled by your moves.
You have 2 minutes to pinch the butt of everyone of the opposite sex (Family excluded)
Free Money!
Fake an orgasm loudly, like in When Harry Met Sally
 
We have a "pest control" game. I hide spiders and roaches (or any other type of bug) throughout the house. Put bags (can be party gift bags or paper lunch bags), out with a pen to mark party goers names on the bags. Instruct them to collect as many spiders or roaches as they can. You can fill a glass jar with candy (be sure to count the pieces before putting them in the jar) and have everyone write their guess as to how many pieces of candy are in the jar. The person coming closest but not going over wins.

There are always the alcohol games, such as spin the bottle. Instead of kissing you can have different shots around a bottle and whoever spins it has to drink the shot the bottle lands on.
 
So many great ideas here, thanks to all! We're having a party this weekend and have pulled from many sources to come up with our own rules for a murder mystery game. Our friends are all gamers and used to LARPing so the roleplay aspect will be easy for them to get into. The winking thing just seemed a bit easy/cheesy too. Here is what we came up with for those interested.

The premise and set up is extremely simple. Just print out pieces of paper or cards with the following info, one for the murderer and as many others as you need for your guests. Make labels and get a fake knife and hide them wherever you identified.


Card for the murderer:

Congratulations, you are tonight’s murderer!!

Your goal is to “kill” as many party guests as you can before midnight. You can do this in one of two ways:
1. You can "poison" your victim by placing a label on their body to prove that you've slain them.
2. You can "stab" your victim by using the fake knife provided. Be safe and careful not to actually harm anyone in your attempts. Using this method is far more likely to get you caught, so choose wisely!

Be sly, cautious, & subtle. Everyone knows there is a killer on the loose so they may try to avoid contact. Once your victim has been murdered, or they discover they're poisoned, they will have 3 minutes to "die". Therefore, you have time to flee the crime scene, get a good seat, and enjoy watching their death throes. If you are caught or discovered at any time by the living the game is over.

You can find the labels and fake knife in the first floor bathroom cupboard, in the black folder.

At midnight or if the killer is caught, whichever happens first, we will have a random draw for a prize. The killer gets one entry + an entry for each victim. Each living guest gets one entry. The dead get no prizes.




Card for everyone else:

BEWARE!!
There is a "killer" among us! This person will randomly choose their role by picking a card just like you.
He or she will be equipped with "poison" (actually just labels they will have to stick on people) and a "knife" (actually a fake knife they will pretend to use).

If you are "stabbed" or "poisoned" this means you have just been killed and have 3 minutes to act out your death. You can do this wherever you want, however you want. You can find a place to quietly sit down and close your eyes, you can stumble into a room with other people, choking and gasping, or anything in between. Please be careful and don't actually hurt yourself in the process. Remember your role is the hunted, not the hunter, no attacking other guests you may think are the killer.

After your death, you must stay where you are until someone finds you and raises your spirit, at which time you will become a ghost for the rest of the evening. Spirits can be raised however you like: you can just tell the body they've been found or act something out for extra fun.

Once murdered you cannot reveal the identity of your killer to the living guests, this is very important.

At midnight or if the killer is caught, whichever happens first, we will have a random draw for a prize. The killer gets one entry + an entry for each victim. Each living guest gets one entry. The dead get no prizes.
 
Murder Mysteries are a great party game for adults, and you can get some more risky ones with ShotintheDarkMysteries.com When you are on the site, each mystery has an angel rating, the lower the number, the more offensive the game is. All of our Murder Mysteries are super interactive, and great fun with exciting plots.

All parties come with the following :
* Facilitator guide with full instructions on how to play and tips to help you prepare for your party
* Individual guides for each suspect with full instructions on how to play and their motives
* Character Complexity Rating (to help hosts better assign characters to their guests)
* Optional Audio Introduction and final “Big Reveal” mystery solution
* Accusation Forms
* Invitations
* Name tags
* Access to the PLAY! site to send your guests to – view the trailer, suspects and more!

Check us out at www.shotinthedarkmysteries.com
 
Well the party was a BIG success after the 2013 FAIL. It was in big part to the WINK Murder game that I found on this thread. The REAL twist we had was two fold. First I ended up picking the MURDERER out of the bowl and because A.) I was the HOST and B.) I was wearing a hood and appliance the COVERED my EYES I could not be the murderer. SOOOO, I got my son who happened to be off work that night ( he works third shift ) to do the honors. He was NOT going to even participate in the party ( no costume, would rather play video games, 25 years old) . It was just the twist we needed and he was able to wander in every so often and KILL and move out ! He got everybody and won the night ! Nobody ever even GUESSED it was him. Next year we may do the FATE game as well !
 
Heres some of the ones I have so far: Maybe my peeps can think of more??
emmett kelly
bozo
Joker
Clarabell
Pennywise
Krusty
John Wayne Gacy
Red Skelton
Cepellin
Ronald Mcdonald
My brother in law...:D
Loonette (big comfy couch show)
Funky the clown (my sons 4th bday party clown- he's a local)
Homey the Clown
HarleyQuinn
 
I'm Really loving this forum and this thread, got a bunch of cool idead for my second ever Halloween party! Last year was a great success, the last guests left at 9am :D I'll be doing a Halloween-themed pictionary, perhaps "Who am I" where you have the note on your back telling what moster/etc you are and you need to guess asking yes/no questions from others.

One classic drinking game is Hitler, where you'll need a deck of cards, with amount of players preferably 4 or over. The deck is placed face down and each player draws a card on their turn and reveals it to everyone. It's recommended to write the rules down, so players can check them whenever they feel the need to. Each card is assigned a name and a task, for example like this:

1: Give. The player who drew this card will decide who'll take a shot/3 chugs etc.
2: Take. The player drinks themselves.
3: Thumbmaster. The player can however discreetly as they wishes to lift up their thumb at any point of the game. When another player notices the thumb, they lift theirs. Last player to notice and give a thumbs up will take a shot.
4: Hitler. Every player must shout "Hitler!", preferably with the appropriate hand gesture. Last player to shout will take a shot.
5: Category. Player chooses a category and each player will have to name something in that category on their turn, for example "movie monsters", players would say "Jeepers creepers" "Dracula" "Wolfman" etc. When a player can't name anything, they'll take a shot,
6: Waterfall. Player starts chugging from their drink and so does the person to their left, and their left and so on, untill everyone is drinking. You can't stop drinking until the person on your right has stopped.
7: Rhyme. Player says a word of their choice and the person to their left has to make up something that rhymes with it. This goes on until a player can't think of anything that rhymes.
8: Rule. Player makes up a rule that's valid for as long as the game goes on OR until another player draws this card and revokes the rule. For example, you need to always talk with an over the top Dracula accent. If a player fails to do so, they'll take a shot.
9: Question master. If the player who drew this card asks any question at any point of the game (until another person draws this card and becomes the new question master), if anyone should answer the question asked they'll take a shot.
10: Storytime. The player starts with a word of their choice, and the player to their left repeats the word and says a new one. Each player will add a word and continue the story, but must say the whole thing right or they'll take a shot.
11: Numbermaster. Player starts with saying the number 1. The player to their left will say 2, the next 3 and so on. The trick is that you must skip any number with 7 on it or that can be divided with 7. The person who fails to do so drinks.
12: W_hore. Player chooses a w_hore for themselves, and the w_hore must drink at any time when the whoreowner drinks. Max 2 whores in the game at the same time.
13: The King's cup. Each player pours some of their drink to a common pint, and the player who drew this card must drink the whole thing.

So that's the whole thing! Rules can be of course changed, I'm going to try and make a more theme-fitting version. Like instead of "Hitler" you'd shout "Dracula", which would be fun since lot of the guys would stumble with that and still shout Hitler :D
 
Heres some of the ones I have so far: Maybe my peeps can think of more??
emmett kelly
bozo
Joker
Clarabell
Pennywise
Krusty
John Wayne Gacy
Red Skelton
Cepellin
Ronald Mcdonald
My brother in law...:D
Loonette (big comfy couch show)
Funky the clown (my sons 4th bday party clown- he's a local)
Homey the Clown
HarleyQuinn
Any more names of clowns?
 
Any more names of clowns?
Dont forget Wrinkles. Local urban legend that has been sighted from Naples to Tampa. Has a big enough following that Palm Beach Post did an article on him. Google it.
Twisty... the clown from American Horror Story: Freak Show
 
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