[lbelle3]

since i've had a few PMs, here are more details on the winking murder game. This is what i would hand out on the pieces of paper:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
You are tonight’s murderer!!!
You have tonight’s easiest role!
Your job is to “kill” everyone at the party before the night is over. You will do this by winking one eye at them.
Be sly, cautious, & subtle. Everyone knows there is a winking killer on the loose. So, they may try to avoid eye contact with you.
Your victims will have 3 minutes, after being winked at/murdered, to die. Therefore, you have time to flee the crime scene, get a good seat, and enjoy watching them die…(they have a pre-determined death in their hands).
Let the killings begin!
Enjoy!


BEWARE!!!
There is a winking killer amongst us!
Yes, you read correctly…winking! Before the night is over, the murderer will make eye contact with you and wink one eye. This means you have just been killed!
Your murderer has decided to end your life by:

HAVING YOU LAUGH YOURSELF TO DEATH!!!

You will have 3 minutes to choose where you’d like to die…then…die.
Yes…we must see you die. Remember, the killer will not perform the action… that is your job! The killer will wink and expect you to complete the death. So, the more creative, dramatic, and visible the death…the better we will remember you by.
Once you have been killed, do not reveal the killer…or you will be very lonely on the other side.


I would obviously just do 1 murderer, and for the rest, i would print out several sheets, then just handwrite a different death for each one.
i put out about 3/4 of the papers WITH the murder one in there. Then as people continue to show up, i put in more deaths if i need to. That way i didnt have left overs and risk the chance for the murder one not to get chosesn.

 

[lbelle3]

Me again....

quick question about the scavenger hunt. Sounds like fun, but i dont really like the idea that people would be snooping through my things. Where would i hide everything?

 

[mryantaylor]

Exquisite Corpse

This game has many variations, from building sentences to drawing works of art. In my family, we take a notebook for each person and in it they write the first sentence of a Halloween story and then pass the notebook to the right. The next person in the circle adds a sentence until the notebook comes back full circle. The person who started the story then gets to read his/her creation out loud to the group. It's very fun how some of them turn out.

 

[colmmoo]

Winking Game Question

How do you ensure that the person who is chosen to be the murderer isn't one of those people who leave the party early? I can tell from my invitee list who's likely to leave by 9 pm (mostly parents with kids) and others who are likely to leave later than that.

 

[rescuedogmama]

Not terribly scary or grown-up, but we might do a Chubby Bunny contest with some of those Halloween peeps. It's always good for a laugh.

 

[Handy_Haunter]

Vancouver,

I once had a problem with black candle wax on the carpet too. The best way to get it out, and keep the wife happy, is take an old rag and place it on top of the cooled wax then run a hot iron on top of it. All (or at least a great majority) of the wax it pulled upward into the rag and out of the carpet.

 

[SKATERONICE]

I am going with Scary Pictionary for the Girls night out. Here is my list of 100 words I have found from searching here there and everywhere. I am going to put them in categories yet like Movies, Thing etc. to help a bit but not much.

FREDDY (NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST)
HOWL
DUNGEON
WICKED
STABBING
GALLOWS
CREATURE FROM BLACK LAGOON
SPOOKY
EXECUTE
DISEMBODIED SPIRIT
UNDERTAKER
WOLVES
GHOST SHIP
CLEAVER
JASON (FRIDAY THE 13TH)
THING (FROM ADAMS FAMILY)
HOMICIDAL MANIAC
WITCHING HOUR
HEARSE
GOBLIN
CHUCKY (CHILDS PLAY)
DEMONS
HARRY POTTER
PHANTOM
ELECTRIC CHAIR
MR. HYDE (DR. JEKYL & MR. HYDE)
RAVEN
ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES
DAWN OF THE DEAD
ALIEN
CREEPSHOW
FORTUNE TELLER
TAROT CARD
KING KONG
THE WOLFMAN (DOUBLE?)
THE BLOB
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
SWAMP THING
ELVIRA
BOOGEYMAN
CADAVER
GUILLOTINE
SCREAMS
OCCULT
GOURDS
IMPALE
BATS
SPIDER
WITCH
JACK O LANTERN
GRAVEYARD
CANDY CORN
VAMPIRE
DEVIL
WEREWOLF
GHOST
MUMMY
CAULDRON
BLACK CAT
COFFIN
ZOMBIE
HEADLESS HORSEMAN
TOMBSTONE
FRANKENSTEIN
MAD SCIENTIST
HAUNTED HOUSE
FLYING BROOM
SKULLS
SCARECROW
INDIAN CORN
SKELETON
TRICK OR TREATERS
BONES
FULL MOON
COBWEBS
POTIONS
HAYRIDE
MASK
BLOODY AXE
OWL
EYEBALLS
GUTS
NIGHTMARE BEFORE XMAS
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
GHOSTBUSTERS
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
THE GREAT PUMPKIN
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
PYSCHO
STAKE THRU THE HEART
CEMETARY
FANGS
BOBBING FOR APPLES
MONSTER MASH
DAY OF THE DEAD
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
BATS IN THE BELFRY
A BAT OUTTA HELL
GRAVE DIGGER
SCARED STIFF
WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER
GHOST STORY
TIL DEATH DO US PART
BONE DADDY
DEVILS BREW
DEAD AS A DOOR KNOB
HIGH SPIRITS
SCARED TO DEATH
CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE

 

[Vancouver]

Vancouver,

I once had a problem with black candle wax on the carpet too. The best way to get it out, and keep the wife happy, is take an old rag and place it on top of the cooled wax then run a hot iron on top of it. All (or at least a great majority) of the wax it pulled upward into the rag and out of the carpet.

tried that...got most of it out but still some left over...a constant reminder...lol

thanks anyways!

 

[mryantaylor]

For wax spills, paper and an iron works well after a cloth is not working any more. We used about a hundred sheets of paper once and the persistence paid off. I think there was still a little stain but it was far less conspicuous. Just an idea.

 

[Long_Tom]

We are going to do a little drinking game with single-serving bottles. The premise is that each guest has been poisoned or otherwise afflicted with some dread condition, and must drink an antidote of their own choosing. The antidote bottles will be hidden under a cloth in a box, and the guests must figure out what they want to drink by feel. If you know your liquor really well, you can recognize the brand by the shape of the little bottle, and get exactly what you want. If not, you get something random, interesting and hopefully tasty.

I'm thinking that people will only get access to the antidote bottle tray after completing a task. The task this year will be "Guess My Own Name" where you get a name pinned to your back and have to figure out who you are, using only yes-or-no questions. The names will all be halloween or horror related, of course. That will be incentive to get people interacting. The incentive to complete the task will be that there is only one of each kind of liqueur in the antidote tray, so people who finish early get best pick. Of course there will be sufficient ordinary drinks so that won't be that much of a problem for late finishers.

Hmmm. Depending on how enthusiastically people imbibe, I may want to do the same thing with peoples' car keys....

 

[Long_Tom]

Update on the "find your antidote bottle by feel" game: I wasn't sure how it would be received (seems a little corny on paper), but people took to it fairly enthusiastically. It was fun to see how people consistently ended up with a bottle of something that suited their personality (and drinking tastes). There was a great feeling of "hey, cool, it really works!" as if it were some new magical twist on phrenology or something. My party theme was "mad doctors' medical symposium", and I made up the term "Pharmacotactaesthesiology" to describe it, which everybody liked.

 

[kUITSUKU]

Hey guys, I know this hasn't been updated for quite a while but when I googled for adult halloween party games this thread was in the top list and I loved all the ideas! I've been playing the murder game every year at my parties but all I did was explain the rules of the game, then use blank slips of paper with one that said "murderer." The more detailed version in here seems MUCH more fun, and my guests won't make me repeat the game rules multiple times if they're given the explanation on paper at the beginning of the party. Can't wait to try it out this year!

As far as game ideas, I usually play this at any party but it can easily be morphed into a halloween game. It ends up turning dirty at my parties because we're all young college students, but still a hilarious game for all ages.

~ Everyone sits in a circle and we're all given a piece of paper. Each person writes a sentence (in this case, something that has a halloween theme) on their paper, then passes it to the next person. That person reads the sentence, draws what it is, then folds the sentence over and hands the paper to the next person. That person writes a sentence of what they see, then folds over the picture and passes the paper so the next person can draw that paper. It's like a telephone game. Once the papers are full, the game ends and everyone can read how morphed their original sentences were. We usually laugh for 15 minutes at the results.
Most of my friends are artists, but I guarantee this game is more fun with people who can't draw. Morphed pictures create 'special' sentences, hah.

And of course there's the mummy game..everyone gets in groups of 2 and the first person to wrap up their partner completely in toilet paper wins. No matter what age you are, seeing a friend wrapped from head to toe in tp is hilarious.

Hope to read more party ideas this year!

 

[BadTableManor]

Here's something a little different than the other games. I nearly pee'd my pants watching everyone swinging their cucumber, trying to get it to whack their potato to the finish line:
Halloween Forum - BadTableManor's Album: BTM - Picture

 

[memamu]

KILLER! Thanks so much for your ideas - Can anyone suggest great ways to die? I haven't done this game before; so far I have (credit to previous posts)

Laughing to Death
Stung by a swarm of bees
Shot a hundred times
Shot by an infamous rapper
Engorged by scarab beetles eating your legs
Gastric Embolisation Through Poisoning
Talking so fast your life ebbs away
Ravens pecking your eyes out (I've put this as Tower Ravens - after the Tower of London)
Melting to death (Wicked Witch of the West Style)

Suggestions welcome, I think mine are lame!

 

[kUITSUKU]

memamu - oooo, thanks for adding to my list of deaths! :} I had some friends suggest some:
Sinking in quick sand
Being mauled by a bear
Falling down a flight of stairs
Hanging yourself (I mentioned that they couldn't actually use a prop to be on the safe side)
Running into a wall
Drown in an invisible pool of water
Burned alive
Electrocuted

 

[Noelle]

Last year my "deaths" were:

Laughing yourself to death
Choking on a hairball
Drinking a poisoned beverage
Getting squished by a giant pumpkin
Being bitten by a vampire
Being attacked by a werewolf
Having body parts chopped off
Being shot in slow motion
Being attacked by a dozen bats
Being attacked by a giant slime blob

 

[NOWHINING]

Okay.... I am almost expert one this... Keep in mind I said "EXPERT"

1... Monster War!
this is play as two team divided into two groups. Black team and the White team.\
you will need balloons of black and white and strings to tie the balloons around the ankles. the idea is they are to stomp the one team's balloons. once their balloon is popped, they are to leave the area as the war cont. this cont' until the one team's balloons is stomped out.
if you are feeling mean, after that team is lost. let the winning team turn on each other...

2...Spooky music "Name that Tune" using
ex. Jaw's theme, the x-files, Psycho theme. etc.ect

3...Slime-n-beer Relay... all you need is two team, slime, small amount of beer in cups and 4 witch's cauldrons.

slimy hands carry the beer in a small cup racing.... need i say more?

4...there are all kinds of Halloween theme like trivia on line for questions... i have 5 years worth going on by looking on line.

5...guess what movie quote said that line... you get the idea. again look on line.

6...Mummy Wrap... two people each, One the mummy, one is the wrapper. each one get a roll of toilet paper. Fastest one wrap the mummy wins!

Does this helps?

 

[Halloween_Mom]

Woohoo!

The murder game would so suit my trick r' treat movie theme! Their tag line is: Poison, drowning, claw, or knife.
So many ways to take a life...


I have highschoolers...can anyone come up with some more ways to die?

TIA
Kaye

 

[Noelle]

Here are some I used a couple years ago:

Being attacked by ravenous trick or treaters!
Falling in an open grave!
Being hanged!
Burning at the stake!
Being poked by thousands of needles!
Being attacked by a black cat!
Being frightened to death!
Drowning!
Being electrocuted!
Being poisoned slowly and painfully!



I also wanted to add my favorite Halloween Party Game:

Have the group select one person to be the "ghost" and have the rest of the group sit in a circle and close their eyes.

The ghost will walk around the room and stand silently behind a player. Once they pick a player to stand behind, they will slowly count to 10 in their head. If the person they are standing behind senses the ghost, then they say "Ghost!" and the player "wins" so the Ghost chooses a new person and moves on and the player stays in the circle.

If they don't sense the ghost by the time they have counted to 10, then the ghost grabs the person and tells them they are dead. They leave the circle.

If a party game player says there is a ghost behind him or her when there isn't, they must change places with the ghost. Then they continue to move silently around the room and go stand behind another player. If the ghost is good, they will be able to "kill off" all of the other players without ever being detected.



We always have so much fun with this one, it gets so eerie!

 

[Buzzard]

I absoulely love games! When it comes to my Halloween party each year, this is one of my favorite parts to plan.

Couples Halloween Game

Played like the newlywed game. Have the boys leave the room while you ask the girls questions & then have the girls leave the room while you ask the boys questions. Couples try to match one another's answers. The couple with the most points at the end of the game wins! I try to keep the questions Halloween related in some way. This goes over well when you have mostly couples at your party. Even my single friends enjoyed just watching & laughing.

TO THE GIRLS:
1. What is your partner’s biggest fear?
2. What is your partner’s scariest (worst/most annoying) bad habit?
3. Which character best fits your partner’s personality: ghost-transparent and easy to read; bat-night person-comes out at night ready to go; mummy-always wrapped up in themselves or in their work; corpse-lazy and doesn’t clean up after themselves?
4. When it comes to your love life, which of these characters is your partner most like: Casper-soft, gentle & considerate of your wants & needs; a Werewolf-normal during the day, but the freak comes out at night; or Frankenstein-more than you can handle and takes what he wants
5. What is your partner’s favorite Halloween candy?
6. What is the last Halloween costume your partner dressed up in?
7. What is the scariest place (or the place where you would be most likely to get in trouble if you got caught) that you and your partner have ever done the deed?
8. If your partner absolutely had to have a Halloween costume and he got to the costume shop at the last minute with the following choices available, which would he pick: a carrot: full body suit with the sprout hat and all; a professional swimmer complete with a Speedo and swim cap; a pumpkin-tights and lighted antenna head band included; or a pony with a fluffy tail and a 2nd place ribbon around his neck?

TO THE GUYS:
1. Which is your partner more afraid of: snakes, spiders, heights, commitment, the dark or rats?
2. What did you and your partner do on your 1st Halloween together?
3. When your partner is mad at you, which of these is she most like: Moaning Myrtle-pulls away & cries a lot; Dracula-sucks the life out of you; a Witch-always brewing up some way to get back at you; the Devil-flat evil?
4. What is your partner’s favorite scary movie?
5. What is your partner’s scariest (worst/most annoying) bad habit?
6. What is your partner’s favorite color (black, orange or green)?
7. If your partner were to ask you to pick up her Halloween costume on your way home from work-and it came with a bra -what size bra would be included in the costume?
8. When it comes to your love life, which of these characters do you most want your partner to be like: cat woman-feisty and will sink her claws into you; GI-Jane-takes charge and gives orders; French Maid-at your beck and call; or a naughty nurse-knows all of the tricks to make you feel better?

(2nd Year) Couples Halloween Game Questions:

TO THE GIRLS:
-Which frightfully famous Halloween couple would your partner be most likely to dress as: Frankenstein & his Bride; Morticia and Gomez Adams; Batman & Cat Woman; Count Dracula & Vampira
-What is the most horrific gift that you have ever received from your partner?
-What is the 1st Scary movie that you and your partner watched together?
-How would your partner most like to spend Halloween night: by taking it easy and watching a good scary movie together while giving out candy to arriving trick-or-treaters; by haunted trail/house hopping; by leaving the house to avoid trick-or-treaters or at least turning off the lights and pretending not to be home
-Who in your partner’s extended family do you think he would say is the most likely to become a crazed mass murderer?

TO THE GUYS:
-Which of the following would your partner be most grossed out by: a rotting corpse, gushing blood, human guts, or an exposed human brain
-Which of the following creepy creatures would your partner rather be trapped in a small closet with for 24 hours: a hairy tarantula, a blood sucking bat, a rat or his/her stepmother (significant other’s mother where applicable)
-After 72 hours without a shower, what about your partner do you think would be the smelliest/nastiest or the most rotten: her feet, her arm pits, her hair or her breath?
-If forced to eat one of the following items, which would your partner choose: someone else’s toenails, a booger of their own, a hairy scab or a few rabbit droppings
-(2 parts on this one-1/2 the points for each) Is your partner currently an organ donor? If your partner was to pass away today, would she rather be buried or cremated?