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Halloween Would You Rather Questions, Spooky or Not Scary

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Halloween Would You Rather Questions, Spooky or Not Scary

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This or that 78

  • Bake ghost cookies or bake pumpkin muffins?
  • Be a vampire or be a werewolf?
  • Befriend a ghost or befriend a goblin?
  • Bob for apples or bowl with pumpkins? In Scotland apple bobbing is called dooking, and players may use only their teeth.
  • Brew a potion or cast a spell?
  • Carry a broom or carry a wand?
  • Carry a flashlight or carry a glow stick?
  • Carry a pillowcase or carry a plastic pumpkin?
  • Carve a happy face or carve a spooky face?
  • Carve freehand or carve with a stencil?
  • Carve one big pumpkin or carve three small ones?
  • Celebrate all October or celebrate one big night? The name Halloween is a Scots shortening of All Hallows' Eve, the evening of October 31.
  • Count your haul or weigh your haul?
  • Decorate in orange or decorate in purple? The traditional Halloween colors are black and orange, sometimes with purple.
  • Decorate October first or decorate the day before?
  • Dodge swooping bats or dodge scurrying rats?
  • Dress as a ghost or dress as a witch?
  • Dress up your dog or dress up your cat?
  • Drink witch's brew punch or eat graveyard dirt cake?
  • Explore the attic or explore the basement?
  • Finish it this week or ration it till spring?
  • Fly on a broom or turn into a bat?
  • Get a caramel apple or get a popcorn ball?
  • Get chocolate or get chewy candy?
  • Get gummy worms or get candy pumpkins?
  • Get lollipops or get licorice?
  • Get one giant bar or get ten tiny bars?
  • Get only your favorite or get one of everything?
  • Get sour candy or get sweet candy?
  • Go as a pirate or go as a knight?
  • Go at dusk or go after dark? Trick-or-treating usually starts at dusk on October 31.
  • Go in first or go in last?
  • Go to a parade or go to a bonfire?
  • Hang fake cobwebs or string orange lights?
  • Haunt a castle or haunt a candy shop?
  • Have a witch's hat or have a wizard's cloak?
  • Hear a creak or see a shadow?
  • Hear a howl or hear a cackle?
  • Hide behind a mask or paint your whole face?
  • Hold the flashlight or hold someone's hand?
  • Host the party or attend the party?
  • Judge the costume contest or enter the costume contest?
  • Knock on the door or ring the doorbell? The earliest known print use of the phrase, as "tricks or treats", is from 1917 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
  • Light a real candle or use a battery light?
  • Look amazing but itch or look plain but comfy?
  • Make the playlist or make the snacks?
  • Make your costume or buy your costume?
  • Meet a mummy or meet a zombie?
  • Outrun a zombie or outsmart a vampire?
  • Own a black cat or own a pet bat?
  • Party in a barn or party in a basement?
  • Pick a giant pumpkin or pick a tiny pumpkin?
  • Play flashlight tag or play musical tombstones?
  • Put up skeletons or put up ghosts?
  • Rattle like a skeleton or moan like a ghost?
  • Ride a haunted elevator or climb a haunted staircase?
  • Ride a haunted hayride or walk a haunted trail? Haunted attractions take in haunted houses, hayrides and corn mazes.
  • Roast the seeds or bake the pie?
  • Scoop the seeds or draw the face?
  • Scream at everything or laugh at everything?
  • Sleep in the attic or sleep in the cellar?
  • Snack on candy corn or snack on caramel apples?
  • Sort by color or sort by favorite?
  • Tell a creepy tale or tell a silly joke?
  • Tell ghost stories or hear ghost stories?
  • Trick-or-treat with friends or trick-or-treat with family?
  • Visit a graveyard or visit a haunted barn?
  • Visit a pumpkin patch or grow your own pumpkin?
  • Visit fifty houses or visit five great ones?
  • Walk the route or ride in a wagon?
  • Watch a spooky movie or read a spooky book?
  • Wear a cape or wear a tail?
  • Wear a funny costume or wear a scary costume?
  • Wear a group costume or wear a solo costume?
  • Wear a wig or wear a giant hat?
  • Win funniest costume or win scariest costume?
  • Win the mummy wrap or win the costume parade?
  • Work the haunted house or walk through it?

Costumes 15

  • Would you rather be a scarecrow stuffed with straw or be a mummy wrapped in toilet paper?
  • Would you rather be the front half of a horse costume or be the back half?
  • Would you rather change costumes every hour or keep one costume for ten years?
  • Would you rather dress as your favorite food or dress as your favorite animal?
  • Would you rather have a costume with working lights or have a costume with sound effects?
  • Would you rather sew your costume for a month or build it in an hour from cardboard?
  • Would you rather wear a costume nobody can guess or match three classmates by accident?
  • Would you rather wear a costume so good it hides you or wear one so bad it becomes famous?
  • Would you rather wear a costume that scares your dog or wear one that makes babies giggle?
  • Would you rather wear a glowing costume or wear a squeaking costume?
  • Would you rather wear a slowly leaking inflatable suit or wear stilts up every porch step?
  • Would you rather wear a winter coat over your costume or shiver all night and show it off?
  • Would you rather wear fangs that stop you talking or wear claws that drop your candy?
  • Would you rather wear last year's costume again or wear your sibling's old costume?
  • Would you rather wear your costume to school all day or wear it to the store all week?

Trick-or-treat and candy 13

  • Would you rather be first on the street at dusk or be last and get the bowl leftovers?
  • Would you rather carry a bag that is too small or carry a bag that is too heavy?
  • Would you rather collect coins for charity in a little box or collect candy for yourself? The Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF charity collection started in 1950.
  • Would you rather find every porch light on or find one house giving out toys? A porch light left on is the common sign that a house has candy to give.
  • Would you rather find the house with full-size bars or find the house with a spooky porch?
  • Would you rather get a toothbrush at every house or get one raisin box at every house?
  • Would you rather hand out candy dressed as a statue or hand it out through a mail slot?
  • Would you rather pass the dark house at the end of the lane or go the long way around it?
  • Would you rather pay a parent candy tax of ten pieces or share half with a little sibling?
  • Would you rather sing a song for every treat or tell a joke for every treat? In Scotland and Ireland the custom is called guising, and children traditionally earn the treat with a party trick such as a song, a joke or a funny poem.
  • Would you rather trade away all your chocolate or trade away all your sour candy?
  • Would you rather trick-or-treat in thick fog or trick-or-treat in a strong wind?
  • Would you rather trunk-or-treat in one parking lot or walk ten blocks of porches? Trunk-or-treating, where children go from car to car in a parking lot, grew out of fall festivals held in the mid-1990s as an alternative to trick-or-treating.

Pumpkins and decorations 14

  • Would you rather carve a pumpkin using only a spoon or paint one using only your fingers?
  • Would you rather carve a small hard turnip the old way or carve a big soft pumpkin? Jack-o'-lanterns were first carved from turnips in Ireland and Scotland. Immigrants to North America switched to the native pumpkin, which is softer and much larger.
  • Would you rather carve the best pumpkin in town or grow the biggest pumpkin in town?
  • Would you rather decorate the whole house a little or decorate one room completely?
  • Would you rather fill the yard with inflatable ghosts or fill it with hand-cut tombstones?
  • Would you rather keep the decorations up until December or take them down at midnight?
  • Would you rather line the porch with twenty pumpkins or set out one enormous pumpkin?
  • Would you rather make a scarecrow of yourself or make a scarecrow of your dog?
  • Would you rather own a pumpkin that talks or own a skeleton that sings?
  • Would you rather own a yard ghost that moans all night or own a doormat that screams?
  • Would you rather see squirrels eat your jack-o'-lantern or see it cave in a week early?
  • Would you rather sleep among a hundred fake spiders or sleep beside one real spider?
  • Would you rather stick your whole arm in pumpkin guts or pick every string off every seed?
  • Would you rather win the pumpkin weigh-off or win the pumpkin carving contest?

Haunted houses 17

  • Would you rather be locked in a wax museum overnight or be locked in a toy shop overnight?
  • Would you rather be the actor who jumps out or be the guide who stays calm?
  • Would you rather build a haunted house in the garage or build a spooky maze in the yard?
  • Would you rather find a staircase behind a bookcase or find a locked trunk in the attic?
  • Would you rather follow a strange light in the woods or follow strange music in the fog?
  • Would you rather get a cold spot in your bedroom or get a whisper in your closet?
  • Would you rather have a ghost do your chores badly or have a ghost hide your socks?
  • Would you rather have doors that open by themselves or have lights that flicker nightly?
  • Would you rather hear a piano play itself downstairs or hear a music box start upstairs?
  • Would you rather hear footsteps in an empty attic or hear humming in an empty hallway?
  • Would you rather host a friendly ghost all year or host a grumpy ghost one night a year?
  • Would you rather know your house is haunted and stay or never know and wonder forever?
  • Would you rather see a rocking chair move on its own or see a portrait's eyes follow you?
  • Would you rather stay in a haunted lighthouse or stay in a haunted hotel?
  • Would you rather stay one night alone in a haunted house or stay a week with friends?
  • Would you rather tour a haunted house with lights on or skip it for cider and doughnuts?
  • Would you rather walk a dark maze with no flashlight or walk a lit maze full of actors?

Monsters and ghosts 18

  • Would you rather babysit a baby vampire or babysit three werewolf pups?
  • Would you rather be a friendly monster under the bed or be a shy monster in the closet?
  • Would you rather be a ghost who can only say boo or be a zombie who can only say brains?
  • Would you rather be a mummy who keeps unraveling or be a skeleton who keeps losing an arm?
  • Would you rather be a vampire who loves garlic bread or be a werewolf afraid of the moon?
  • Would you rather be a witch with a lazy cat or be a wizard with a bossy owl?
  • Would you rather be chased a mile by a slow mummy or be chased a minute by a fast ghost?
  • Would you rather be the one human in a monster town or be the one monster in a human town?
  • Would you rather dance at a monster ball or sing in a ghost choir?
  • Would you rather face one spider the size of a car or face a thousand the size of a pea?
  • Would you rather find glowing eyes in the hedge or find huge footprints in the mud?
  • Would you rather get lost in a vampire's castle or get lost in a witch's forest?
  • Would you rather have a ghost for a best friend or have a skeleton for a lab partner?
  • Would you rather hear a scratch at the window or hear a knock from under the floor?
  • Would you rather know a monster lives in your basement or suspect one lives in your attic?
  • Would you rather raise a werewolf puppy or raise a baby sea monster?
  • Would you rather trade lunches with a zombie or trade homework with a ghost?
  • Would you rather turn into a werewolf every full moon or turn into a bat every sunset?

Parties and games 15

  • Would you rather dance to spooky songs all night or play spooky bingo all night?
  • Would you rather decorate cookies like monsters or decorate cupcakes like pumpkins?
  • Would you rather eat a string doughnut with no hands or stack candy corn with chopsticks?
  • Would you rather get homework on Halloween night or get a test the morning after?
  • Would you rather have a class party with no sugar or have no class party but extra recess?
  • Would you rather have a Halloween birthday or have a birthday on the first day of summer?
  • Would you rather have Halloween twice a year or have it last a whole week?
  • Would you rather have it always land on a Saturday or always get the next day off school?
  • Would you rather host a party where every game flops or attend one where you know nobody?
  • Would you rather plan the whole school carnival or clean up the whole school carnival?
  • Would you rather play hide-and-seek in a dark barn or play tag in a foggy field?
  • Would you rather reach into a box of peeled grapes or reach into a box of cold spaghetti?
  • Would you rather tell the scariest story and sleep alone or hear it and share a room?
  • Would you rather win the pumpkin roll or win the broom relay?
  • Would you rather wrap a friend as a mummy in one minute or be the one getting wrapped?

How it works

These Halloween would you rather questions are 170 cards about costumes, candy, pumpkins, haunted houses and monsters, such as Hear a howl or hear a cackle. Not scary has nothing frightening in it, and Spooky is creepy but clean.

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Pick the mood first: Not scary or Spooky

Not scary marks 118 cards about costumes, candy trades and pumpkins. Spooky marks 38 with a creak, a shadow or a chase, such as Get lost in a vampire's castle or get lost in a witch's forest. If you came for scary or horror would you rather questions, Spooky is as far as a clean deck goes. For the hardest choices, press Spooky and then Hard: 18 cards.

78 short pairs under This or that

This or that holds 78 Halloween this or that questions. Options run four words or fewer: Carve freehand or carve with a stencil, Be a vampire or be a werewolf. Six topics sort all 170 cards, from Costumes and Trick-or-treat and candy to Monsters and ghosts.

  • On the porch, press This or that and ask each trick-or-treater one pair before the candy.
  • Eleven cards carry a checked fact in the list, such as the first jack-o'-lanterns being turnips.
  • At a costume party, start on Costumes and give the closest vote a prize from the candy bowl.

Questions and answers

How scary are the Spooky cards?

Mild on purpose. The 38 cards have haunted houses, howls and things that go bump. No card has gore, nobody gets hurt, and no card names a film or a character. Fourteen cards carry neither mood.

Are there Halloween would you rather questions for adults?

Yes. Press Spooky and then Hard for 18 cards that take some thought, such as Stay one night alone in a haunted house or stay a week with friends. Every card is clean, so nothing needs hiding when children join.

Is there a Halloween edition for young children?

Press Not scary for 118 cards with nothing frightening in them, such as Raise a werewolf puppy or raise a baby sea monster. The kids deck has 20 more Halloween cards in shorter words.

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