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The short answer These free printable Halloween games cover a whole party: bingo with as many different cards as you need, a word search, a 30-question trivia quiz with an answer key, and This or That cards. Each one takes your party name at the top and prints as a PDF on US Letter or A4, or plays on a phone or TV. Bingo and the word search suit kids and mixed ages; trivia works best for teens and adults.
Start with bingo. It’s the one game on this page that a five-year-old and a grandparent can play at the same table without anyone needing help.
Halloween Bingo
How to play: Give each player a different card and a handful of markers (candy corn, dried beans or a pen). The caller cuts up the calling sheet, or uses Play mode, and reads out one word at a time. Players mark the word if it's on their card. The center square is free.
- Pumpkin
- Jack-o'-Lantern
- Black Cat
- Witch Hat
- Broomstick
- Cauldron
- Ghost
- Bat
- Spider
- Spiderweb
- Haunted House
- Full Moon
+ 38 more in the printable.
Every game here is free to print, and there’s no email sign-up or watermark across the page. Just a small partygamebook.com credit in the footer.
What’s in the Halloween printable pack
| Game | Best for | Players | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halloween bingo | Kids, families, classrooms, big groups | 4 to 60 | 15 to 30 min |
| Halloween word search | Kids 7 and up, quiet tables, early arrivals | 1 to 40 | 10 to 15 min |
| Halloween trivia | Teens, adults, family teams | 2 to 40 | 20 to 30 min |
| Halloween This or That | Any age, icebreakers, car rides | 2 to 40 | 10 to 30 min |
Each game opens in the Game Maker. Type in your party or family name, then print a PDF or tap Play to run it on a phone or TV. Answer keys print on their own pages, so you can hand out the puzzles without giving anything away.
Halloween bingo
Each card is a 5×5 grid pulled from 50 Halloween words: Jack-o’-Lantern, Black Cat, Cauldron, Candy Corn, Haunted House, Bobbing for Apples and the rest. The center is a free square. Every card gets its own mix, and the host gets a calling sheet with all 50 words.
- Print one card per player and one calling sheet. Cut the calling sheet into slips.
- Hand out markers. Candy corn is traditional, but dried beans or a pen won’t disappear mid-game.
- Draw a slip, read the word out and set the slip aside.
- Players mark the word if it’s on their card.
- The first player with five in a row (across, down or diagonal) calls “Bingo.” Check their card against the called slips, hand over a prize and start a new round.
With 10 to 20 players, a round usually ends somewhere around the 15th to 18th call. That’s three to five minutes, so plan several rounds.
Halloween word search
Eighteen words hide in a 14×14 grid: PUMPKIN, BROOMSTICK, CAULDRON, SCARECROW, COBWEB and more. Words run across, down and diagonally, and some run backward. It’s a good table activity for kids who arrive early, or for the quiet corner of a classroom party.
Halloween Word Search
How to play: Print one puzzle per player or team and hand out pencils. Words hide across, down and diagonally, and some run backward. Circle each word you find and cross it off the list.
- PUMPKIN
- GHOST
- WITCH
- BROOMSTICK
- CAULDRON
- SKELETON
- SPIDER
- COSTUME
- CANDY
- LANTERN
- MUMMY
- VAMPIRE
+ 6 more in the printable.
- Print one puzzle per player (or one per pair for younger kids) and hand out pencils.
- Start a timer, or just let people work at their own pace.
- Players circle each word they find and cross it off the list.
- The first to find all 18 wins. If you’re using a timer, stop at 10 minutes and count.
For kids under 7, pair them with an older helper or skip the word search and play bingo instead. Backward and diagonal words are hard for new readers.
Halloween trivia
Thirty multiple-choice questions on where Halloween came from, jack-o’-lanterns before pumpkins, candy corn’s original name, classic monster novels, and movies like Ghostbusters (1984) and Beetlejuice (1988). Every answer is checked against a reliable source, and the answer key prints separately.
Halloween Trivia
How to play: Print one quiz per player or team, or play on a TV and read each question aloud. Players circle one answer per question. No phones. Swap sheets and mark them as the host reads the answer key.
- Halloween grew out of which ancient Celtic festival held at the end of the harvest?
- The word "Halloween" is a Scottish shortening of what?
- Halloween is the night before which holiday?
- Which pope moved the feast of all saints and martyrs to November 1?
- Before pumpkins, what did people in Ireland and Scotland carve into lanterns?
- In the Irish folk tale behind the jack-o'-lantern, a man tricks the devil and ends up wandering with only a carved lantern. What is he called?
- In old-time "souling," people went door to door offering prayers for the dead. What treat did they get in return?
- "Guising," going door to door in disguise for treats, is an old Halloween custom from which country?
- The earliest known use of the phrase "trick or treat" in print, from 1917, appeared in a newspaper in which country?
- In what year did kids first carry cartons door to door for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF?
- What was candy corn called when it was first made in the 1880s?
- The National Confectioners Association named which date National Candy Corn Day?
+ 18 more in the printable.
- Split into teams of two to five. Families can mix ages on each team.
- Print one quiz per team, or put it on a TV and read each question aloud.
- Teams circle one answer per question. No phones.
- Swap sheets between teams and mark them as you read the answer key.
- One point per correct answer. Break a tie with a bonus question: whoever gets closest to the year the first Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF boxes went door to door (1950) wins.
Halloween This or That
Forty-eight cards with easy two-way choices: “Vampire or werewolf?” “Carve a pumpkin or paint a pumpkin?” “Eat candy right away or make it last a month?” There are no right answers and no scoring. Players point left or right, and the minority explains their choice.
Halloween This or That
How to play: Cut the cards apart and stack them face down. Read one card aloud. Everyone picks a side at the same time: point left for the first answer, right for the second. Anyone in the minority explains their choice in one sentence.
- Candy corn or caramel apple?
- Scary costume or funny costume?
- Haunted house or hayride?
- Carve a pumpkin or paint a pumpkin?
- Chocolate or sour candy?
- Trick-or-treat or hand out candy?
- Ghost or witch?
- Vampire or werewolf?
- Scary movie or silly Halloween movie?
- Store-bought costume or homemade costume?
- Full-size candy bars or a big bag of mini ones?
- Black cat or bat?
+ 36 more in the printable.
This one is handy at the start of a party, at a class party while kids wait for their turn at a craft, or during a long drive to a pumpkin patch. Ten cards print per page.
- Printer paper, or card stock for the bingo cards and This or That cards
- Pencils or pens, one per player
- Bingo markers: candy corn, dried beans, buttons or paper squares
- Scissors for the calling slips and cards
- A candy bucket or bowl for drawing slips
- Clipboards or hardcover books to write on
- Small prizes
How many copies to print
- Bingo: one card per player plus five spares. If you’ll play several rounds with pens, print a new card per player per round, or put cards in sheet protectors with dry-erase markers.
- Word search: one per player, or one per pair for kids under 8.
- Trivia: one per team, plus one answer key for you.
- This or That: one set total. The host reads the cards.
Print bingo cards on card stock and the word search on plain paper. Card stock holds up to candy markers and sticky fingers, and plain paper is easier to write on.
Printing at home? Choose “Actual size” or “100%” in your print settings rather than “Fit to page.” The PDFs already have safe margins for US Letter and A4 paper.
Variations for different crowds
Small family night
With three or four players, bingo can drag. Give everyone two cards at once, or play “four corners” as the winning pattern. Trivia works as one family team against the clock: try to beat your score from last year.
Big parties and classrooms
For 25 kids, bingo is the easiest game to run from the front of the room. Put Play mode on the classroom screen so everyone can see which words have been called. The word search makes a good station for early finishers. The ideas in our Halloween party games for kids list add active games to fill out the time.
Teens
Teens tend to prefer trivia in teams with a real prize at stake, and This or That with the rule that the minority has to defend its pick. Skip bingo unless it’s paired with a scary movie.
Adults
Run trivia after dinner and play bingo as scary movie bingo: players mark a square when that thing appears on screen. For a longer list of grown-up games, see our Halloween party games for adults.
Seniors and mixed ages
Print bingo one card per page for big squares, call each word slowly twice, and use a pen instead of small markers. Trivia makes a good group activity if the host reads each question aloud and teams answer together. Our printable games for seniors include large-print options.
Prize ideas
Keep bingo prizes small, since you’ll give out five or more. A full-size candy bar, a pencil topper, glow sticks, a mini pumpkin, a Halloween sticker sheet or a spider ring all work. For trivia, a bigger team prize makes sense: a bag of candy to split, or first pick of the dessert table.
For a party that needs more than printables, browse every game on our Halloween games page.
Questions hosts ask
What Halloween games can I print for free?
Halloween bingo with unique cards and a calling sheet, a word search with an answer key, a 30-question trivia quiz and This or That cards. All print free with no sign-up.
Which printable Halloween game is best for young kids?
Bingo. Pre-readers can play with a grown-up reading the words, and you can shorten the goal to three in a row so everyone has a chance to win.
Do the printables come with answer keys?
Yes. The word search and trivia each print an answer key on its own page. Bingo prints a calling sheet with every word for the host.
What paper size do the Halloween printables use?
You can print each game as a PDF on US Letter or A4 paper. Print at actual size (100%) rather than fit to page.
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