Halloween Games for Couples

How to play

1. 1Agree to do whatever it lands on before spinning.
2. 2Spin once for the evening.
3. 3One joint re-spin if the result is genuinely impossible.
4. 4A couple of these need pumpkins or sweets. Spin before the shops shut.
5. 5The lights-off ones are better than they sound.

Why couples love this game

Halloween is the one night where being slightly ridiculous is socially sanctioned, and couples almost never use it. A fake séance taken far too seriously produces more laughing than any planned date night, largely because neither of you decided to do it.

Halloween as a couple is either a party you did not want to go to or an evening where you both agree you should do something and then watch television.

This wheel is the third option. Everything on it is doable at home on the night, ranges from silly to genuinely creepy, and none of it requires a costume unless the wheel says so.

It is one of the better excuses in the calendar to do something slightly ridiculous with the lights off.

Example results

• Carve a pumpkin each and rate the other one honestly
• Watch a horror film with all the lights off, no phones
• Tell each other a real ghost story. It has to be true
• Watch the worst horror film you can find and talk over it
• Blind taste test the trick-or-treat sweets
• Each design a couples costume for the other. Draw it

The full game has 22 of these, shuffled every time you play.

Who this game is best for

• —October 31st and the weekend around it
• —Couples staying in while everyone else is out
• —Anyone handing out sweets and needing something between doorbells
• —People who like horror films and people who really do not

Tips to make it better

• ✦Spin early if you want the options needing pumpkins or sweets.
• ✦The true ghost story card is the best one. Everyone has one.
• ✦The scare-each-other card needs a rule agreed first: once each, nothing cruel.
• ✦It works just as well on the 30th or the nearest Saturday.

Frequently asked questions