This Halloween bingo game deals from 118 squares: monsters, costumes and candy, haunted-house props, old traditions and the small disasters of every costume party. Print a card per player or send the link to phones, then press Call the game.
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A called game from the 84 Halloween bingo words
The first four entries in Ready-made list are words to call: Cauldron, Werewolf, Candy swap, Guising. Costumes and trick-or-treating fills a 5 × 5 card; the other three deal 4 × 4. For all 84 at once, select the last 34 lines, from Costume needs explaining down, and delete them. To check a winner, press A to Z above the called list.
Halloween bingo for adults: the party moments card
Nobody calls Party moments, for grown-ups. Pick it in Ready-made list and print one card per guest. A guest marks a square on seeing it happen: two guests in the same costume, a fog machine that trips the alarm. House rule: a second guest must have seen it too.
Mark paper cards with paper scraps or large pom-poms, not pens: squares stay readable for the next round.
For a gentler card, set Grid to 3 × 3 and delete Coffin, Tombstone, Skull, Zombie and Ghoul.
It works as a Halloween bingo card generator for your own block: press Enter after any word and type the porch with full-size bars.
Questions and answers
How long does one game take?
About seven to ten minutes at four calls a minute. In our simulated games ten players needed about 40 calls for a first line from all 118 squares. Half an hour fits three rounds: a line, four corners, then blackout.
Why are there no sugar skulls or marigolds on the list?
They belong to the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday kept on November 1 and 2, when families gather to remember relatives who have died. It is a separate tradition, not a second Halloween, so its symbols stay off this list.
What are the clue lines in the list for?
Checked facts to read out with the call; each shows under its word. Jack-o'-lanterns were carved from turnips before pumpkins, candy corn was first sold as Chicken Feed, and in the 1818 novel Frankenstein is the scientist.
All 118 squares
Monsters and night creatures 19
BatNo other mammal is capable of true, sustained flight.
Black catUnlucky in some places, but good luck in Japan and in British folklore.
Frankenstein's monsterIn Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein is the scientist. People gave his name to the creature later.
Ghost
Ghoul
Goblin
Headless horsemanThe rider in Washington Irving's 1820 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Howling wolf
MummyA body preserved on purpose or by dry, cold or airless conditions. The bandages are the costume version.
OwlAn owl can turn its head about 270 degrees in either direction.
Rat
Raven
SkeletonA baby has around 270 bones. Some fuse, which leaves an adult with around 206.
SpiderEight legs make it an arachnid, not an insect.
Toad
VampireThe most famous one is in Dracula, the novel Bram Stoker published in 1897.
WerewolfIn folklore, a person who turns into a wolf. The old word is lycanthrope.
Witch
Zombie
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Costumes and trick-or-treating 25
Astronaut costume
Bedsheet ghostA sheet with two eye holes. Counts on a person, not on a porch.
Bubble gum
Candy cornMade since the 1880s and first sold under the name Chicken Feed.
Candy swapThe trading session on the living room floor once everyone is home.
Cape
Costume parade
Dinosaur costume
Doorbell
Face paint
Fairy wings
Flashlight
Full-size candy barThe house every kid on the street remembers next year.
Glow stick
Gummy worms
Lollipop
Mask
Pillowcase of candy
Pirate costume
Plastic fangs
Porch light onThe usual sign that a house has candy to give out.
Princess costume
Superhero costume
Trick-or-treat bag
Witch hat
Haunted house and yard 22
Bare tree
BroomstickThe twig broom in pictures of witches is a besom: a bundle of twigs tied to a pole.
Cauldron
Cobweb
Coffin
Creaky door
Crystal ball
Flickering candle
Fog machine
Full moon
Giant yard skeleton
Haunted house
Inflatable yard ghost
Jack-o'-lanternBefore pumpkins, people in Ireland and Britain carved turnips and mangelwurzels.
Orange string lights
Plastic spider
Potion bottle
Pumpkin patchBotanically a pumpkin is a fruit, a kind of berry called a pepo.
Skull
Spell book
Spooky sound effects
Tombstone
Party games and old traditions 18
All Hallows' EveThe full name of Halloween: the evening before All Hallows' Day, on October 31.
Apple on a stringAlso called snap apple: bite an apple hung from the ceiling, no hands.
Bobbing for applesApples float because they are less dense than water. In Scotland the game is called dooking.
BonfireBonfires were lit at Samhain, the Gaelic festival that many Halloween customs are traced to.
Candy jar guessEveryone writes down how many pieces are in the jar. Closest guess takes it home.
Caramel appleA whole apple on a stick dipped in hot caramel. Rolled in nuts, some call it a taffy apple.
Costume contest
Donut on a string
Ghost story
GuisingThe Scottish and Irish custom behind trick-or-treating: go door to door in disguise and perform for a treat.
Hayride
Mummy wrap raceTeams wrap one player head to toe in toilet paper. First finished mummy wins.
Popcorn ball
Pumpkin carving
Pumpkin painting
Roasted pumpkin seeds
Soul cakeA small spiced cake once given to soulers who went door to door in medieval England.
Trunk-or-treatCandy handed out from decorated car trunks in a parking lot, often a school's or a church's.
Party moments, for grown-ups 34
Baby dressed as a pumpkin
Can't sit down in costume
Candy bowl runs out
Coat over the costume
Costume is a T-shirt
Costume needs explaining
Costume stuck in a doorway
Dog in a costume
Doorbell sets off the dog
Face paint on a sleeve
Fog machine trips the alarm
Glitter everywhere
Group costume, one missing
Group photo, take three
Homemade costume wins
Host has the best costume
Itchy wig
Jack-o'-lantern caved inCarved a week early. Counts as soon as the face sags.
Last-minute costume
Late trick-or-treater
Mask off in the first hour
Matching pair costume
No costume at all
Parent tax on the candy
Pun costumeA costume that only works once it is said out loud.
Real scream at a fake scare
Same costume as last year
Scary movie, eyes covered
Second trip for candyThe first bags were opened before the 31st.