Halloween Would You Rather Questions

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1. How to play Halloween would you rather
2. Funny Halloween would you rather questions
3. Halloween would you rather questions for kids
4. Halloween would you rather questions for teens
5. Halloween would you rather questions for adults
6. Scary would you rather questions
7. Halloween candy would you rather questions
8. Costume would you rather questions
9. Hard Halloween would you rather questions
10. Ways to use these questions
11. Questions hosts ask

Would you rather is the easiest Halloween game to run. No board, no supplies and no rules beyond “pick one, and you can’t say neither.” Halloween hands you great material too: vampires, candy, haunted attics, costumes that are too hot to wear.

Our printable deck has 48 quick Halloween choices, ten cards to a page. Add your party name, then print a PDF (US Letter or A4) or play on a phone or TV.

How to play Halloween would you rather

1. Sit in a circle or around a table. Shuffle the cards, or pull up this page on a phone.
2. The reader reads one question aloud. On the count of three, everyone points: left hand for the first choice, right hand for the second.
3. Anyone alone in their choice gets one sentence to defend it. That’s where the good stuff happens.
4. Pass the cards (or the phone) to the next reader.
5. Stop while people are still laughing. Fifteen to twenty minutes is right for most groups.

Want points? Before each vote, the reader predicts which side will win. A correct call earns a point, and the first player to five takes a prize from the candy bowl.

Playing with a big group? Make the room the game. Put a sign that says “THIS” on one wall and “THAT” on the other, and have everyone walk to their side. It’s a good way to get a classroom or an office party moving.

Funny Halloween would you rather questions

Silly enough for a second-grade classroom, quick enough for a room full of adults. Start here.

1. Would you rather have a pumpkin for a head or candy corn for teeth?
2. Would you rather only be able to say “boo” or only be able to cackle like a witch?
3. Would you rather trick-or-treat in a costume made of bubble wrap or one made of paper towels?
4. Would you rather have a skeleton that follows you everywhere or a bat that lives in your hood?
5. Would you rather sneeze glitter or burp fog?
6. Would you rather wear a bedsheet ghost costume every year forever or wear a new costume every day that someone else picks?
7. Would you rather have a ghost roommate who tells bad jokes or one who only hums?
8. Would you rather ride a broom that’s afraid of heights or a flying carpet that gets carsick?
9. Would you rather be a vampire who’s scared of the dark or a werewolf who’s allergic to dogs?
10. Would you rather have a mummy cut your hair or a zombie clean your teeth?
11. Would you rather have your doorbell play spooky organ music or have every door in your house creak?
12. Would you rather walk like a zombie for a whole day or talk like a pirate ghost for a whole day?
13. Would you rather be the house that hands out toothbrushes or the house that hands out pennies?
14. Would you rather wear your costume to school or work for a week or to a fancy wedding?
15. Would you rather have a black cat that talks back or an owl that judges you silently?
16. Would you rather have a spider do your laundry or a bat do your dishes?
17. Would you rather have hair made of cobwebs or eyebrows made of candy corn?
18. Would you rather laugh every time you’re scared or scream every time you laugh?
19. Would you rather live next door to a scarecrow or go to school in a haunted house?
20. Would you rather have a witch’s pointy nose or a vampire’s fangs for a year?
21. Would you rather live inside a giant pumpkin or inside a giant candy apple?
22. Would you rather have a skeleton band play at your birthday or a choir of ghosts?
23. Would you rather have your pet dress you up every day or dress up your pet every day?
24. Would you rather glow in the dark or turn invisible in the dark?
25. Would you rather have a cauldron that makes any soup or a broom that sweeps by itself?
26. Would you rather eat only orange food for a week or only black food?
27. Would you rather be chased by a zombie on roller skates or a mummy who keeps unraveling?
28. Would you rather howl at every full moon or meow at every black cat?
29. Would you rather have a jack-o’-lantern that talks or a scarecrow that dances?
30. Would you rather get stuck in a giant spiderweb or a giant pile of candy wrappers?

Halloween would you rather questions for kids

These are for ages 4 to 10. Nothing spooky beyond a friendly ghost, and plenty that a preschooler can answer in a second.

1. Would you rather be a friendly ghost or a friendly monster?
2. Would you rather carve a pumpkin or paint a pumpkin?
3. Would you rather trick-or-treat with your best friend or with your whole family?
4. Would you rather have a pet bat or a pet black cat?
5. Would you rather dress up as an animal or as a hero you invent yourself?
6. Would you rather go on a hayride or through a corn maze?
7. Would you rather have a candy bucket that never runs out or a costume that changes whenever you want?
8. Would you rather be a witch with a flying broom or a wizard with a magic wand?
9. Would you rather live in a castle or in a treehouse with a nice ghost?
10. Would you rather find a giant pumpkin or a tiny dragon egg?
11. Would you rather eat candy corn or a caramel apple?
12. Would you rather be a mummy or a skeleton?
13. Would you rather go trick-or-treating in the rain or in the snow?
14. Would you rather have a glow-in-the-dark costume or one with blinking lights?
15. Would you rather have a cauldron that makes hot cocoa or one that makes lemonade?
16. Would you rather be able to talk to spiders or talk to owls?
17. Would you rather have your Halloween party at school or at home?
18. Would you rather wear a mask or face paint?
19. Would you rather have a spooky story read to you or tell your own?
20. Would you rather decorate your room like a haunted house or like a pumpkin patch?
21. Would you rather be a scarecrow for a day or a bat for a day?
22. Would you rather have a friendly monster under your bed or in your closet?
23. Would you rather trade all your candy for one giant chocolate bar or keep all the little pieces?
24. Would you rather go to a pumpkin patch or pick apples at an orchard?
25. Would you rather roast pumpkin seeds or make caramel popcorn?
26. Would you rather dress up as a vegetable or as a piece of candy?
27. Would you rather match costumes with your pet or with your best friend?
28. Would you rather ride in a pumpkin carriage or on a flying broom?
29. Would you rather have Halloween once a month or have Halloween last a whole week?
30. Would you rather meet a friendly witch or a friendly werewolf?

Halloween would you rather questions for teens

A step up in spookiness, with more about parties, haunted attractions and scary movies. There’s a whole printable teen deck of 50 more like these.

1. Would you rather go to a costume party or go trick-or-treating one last time?
2. Would you rather spend Halloween night at a haunted house attraction or at home with scary movies?
3. Would you rather have the best group costume or the best solo costume?
4. Would you rather walk a haunted corn maze with your phone at 1% or with a flashlight that flickers?
5. Would you rather be a scare actor for one night or a ghost hunter for one night?
6. Would you rather have the funniest costume at the party or the scariest?
7. Would you rather hand out candy dressed as a statue that moves or watch your friend do it?
8. Would you rather live in a friendly haunted house forever or a normal house with a creaky attic?
9. Would you rather know when every jump scare is coming or never be scared by a movie again?
10. Would you rather sleep over in a museum or in an old lighthouse?
11. Would you rather win the costume contest or win the biggest candy haul?
12. Would you rather do a spooky photo shoot in a pumpkin patch or in a foggy forest?
13. Would you rather dress as your best friend or have your best friend dress as you?
14. Would you rather be the one who tells the ghost story or the one who guesses the twist first?
15. Would you rather survive a zombie movie or a haunted house movie?
16. Would you rather hear footsteps in the attic or whispers in the basement?
17. Would you rather have Halloween on a Friday every year or on your birthday every year?
18. Would you rather go on a haunted hayride with friends or run the snack stand?
19. Would you rather have a ghost who does your homework or one who texts your friends back for you?
20. Would you rather build a haunted house in the garage or plan the whole party?

Planning the whole party? Our Halloween party games for teens has 18 games that pair well with these cards.

Halloween would you rather questions for adults

Grown-up problems with a Halloween twist: mortgages, in-laws, trick-or-treaters who ring the bell at 10 p.m. All clean enough for a work party or a family dinner.

1. Would you rather hand out full-size candy bars to 200 kids or turn your porch light off and hand out nothing?
2. Would you rather be the only person in costume at a party or the only person without one?
3. Would you rather live in a haunted house with no mortgage or a normal house with a normal mortgage?
4. Would you rather have neighbors who decorate for Halloween starting September 1 or neighbors who never decorate?
5. Would you rather wear a full costume to work or to dinner with your in-laws?
6. Would you rather carve 20 pumpkins or sew one costume from scratch?
7. Would you rather have a ghost that only haunts your laundry room or one that only haunts your garage?
8. Would you rather have a ghost roommate who pays rent or one who does the dishes?
9. Would you rather spend a night in a famous haunted hotel or alone in an old farmhouse?
10. Would you rather host the neighborhood Halloween party or take every kid on the street trick-or-treating?
11. Would you rather eat all the candy the kids don’t want or all the candy corn in the house?
12. Would you rather go through a haunted house with a group of screamers or a group that narrates everything?
13. Would you rather have a ghost that hides your keys or one that finishes your coffee?
14. Would you rather do a couples costume every year or never do one again?
15. Would you rather watch only scary movies all October or only holiday movies all October?
16. Would you rather live next to the house with the biggest Halloween display or be that house?
17. Would you rather give up pumpkin spice for a year or give up candy for a year?
18. Would you rather see a real ghost or prove ghosts don’t exist?
19. Would you rather have your house on a ghost tour or on a holiday lights tour?
20. Would you rather clean up after the Halloween party or plan next year’s?
21. Would you rather dress up as your job or dress up as your boss?
22. Would you rather get trick-or-treaters who never say thank you or trick-or-treaters who ring at 10 p.m.?
23. Would you rather be a vampire who has to be invited in or a werewolf who works night shifts?
24. Would you rather learn your house was built on an old cemetery or next to an old witch’s cottage?
25. Would you rather spend Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, or Sleepy Hollow, New York?

Scary would you rather questions

Creepy, not gory. These work best with the lights down, for older kids, teens and adults. Skip this section if there are little ones at the table.

1. Would you rather hear a knock at the door at midnight or the phone ring at 3 a.m.?
2. Would you rather sleep in a room full of old dolls or a room full of spiders?
3. Would you rather spend a night in an empty amusement park or an empty shopping mall?
4. Would you rather see a face at the window or hear your name whispered in an empty room?
5. Would you rather get lost in a corn maze at night or in a forest at dusk?
6. Would you rather find a secret door in your basement or a hidden staircase in your attic?
7. Would you rather walk past a graveyard at midnight or through a haunted house at noon?
8. Would you rather own a portrait whose eyes follow you or a music box that plays by itself?
9. Would you rather see a shadow move across the wall or feel a cold draft in a room with no windows?
10. Would you rather stay in a hotel where the elevator stops at a floor that doesn’t exist or where the front desk calls you by a stranger’s name?
11. Would you rather have every light in the house flicker or every door slowly creak open?
12. Would you rather meet a ghost who wants to chat or one who ignores you completely?
13. Would you rather be the last one awake at a sleepover or the first one asleep?
14. Would you rather hear scratching inside the wall or tapping on the window?
15. Would you rather explore an old shipwreck or an old castle dungeon?
16. Would you rather be chased by something you can see or something you can only hear?
17. Would you rather live where the stairs creak at night or where the TV turns on by itself?
18. Would you rather open a closet full of masks or a closet full of scarecrows?
19. Would you rather have a mirror that shows your reflection a second late or one that shows it a second early?
20. Would you rather go down to the basement alone or send your best friend first?

Halloween candy would you rather questions

The easiest section for a mixed-age crowd. Everyone has a strong opinion about candy.

1. Would you rather get only chocolate or only sour candy on Halloween?
2. Would you rather eat a candy apple or a caramel apple?
3. Would you rather get one giant bag of candy on Halloween or one piece a day all year?
4. Would you rather give up chocolate or give up gummies?
5. Would you rather eat candy corn that tastes like pizza or pizza that tastes like candy corn?
6. Would you rather get raisins at every house or toothbrushes at every house?
7. Would you rather trade candy with your siblings or keep every piece to yourself?
8. Would you rather eat pumpkin pie for breakfast or candy for dinner?
9. Would you rather have a chocolate fountain or a caramel fountain at your party?
10. Would you rather eat all your candy in one night or make it last until Thanksgiving?
11. Would you rather have a lollipop that never gets smaller or gum that never loses its flavor?
12. Would you rather bob for apples or eat doughnuts on a string?
13. Would you rather have unlimited candy bars or unlimited popcorn balls?
14. Would you rather snack on roasted pumpkin seeds or candy pumpkins?
15. Would you rather drink apple cider or hot cocoa on Halloween night?
16. Would you rather have a candy bucket that sorts your candy or one that hides it from your family?
17. Would you rather visit the house with full-size bars or the house with a haunted walk-through?
18. Would you rather share your candy with your whole class or keep it all and skip dessert for a month?
19. Would you rather eat candy that glows or candy that crackles?
20. Would you rather eat a gummy worm as long as a jump rope or a chocolate bar as big as a pumpkin?

Costume would you rather questions

Good for a costume party, where everyone can look at what they’re wearing and reconsider their life choices.

1. Would you rather wear a costume that’s too hot or one that’s too cold?
2. Would you rather make your own costume or buy one?
3. Would you rather have a costume with a tail or one with wings?
4. Would you rather be a monster everyone recognizes or one nobody can guess?
5. Would you rather wear the same costume as your teacher or boss or the same costume as your grandma?
6. Would you rather have a costume that makes sounds or one that lights up?
7. Would you rather dress up as a food or as a household object?
8. Would you rather wear a mask all night or face paint that takes an hour to wash off?
9. Would you rather have a costume with giant shoes or a giant hat?
10. Would you rather wear a costume made of cardboard boxes or one made of duct tape?
11. Would you rather dress as the scariest thing you can think of or the silliest?
12. Would you rather be part of a group costume of 10 or a pair costume with one friend?
13. Would you rather wear your costume to the grocery store or to the dentist?
14. Would you rather have your costume picked by your best friend or by a stranger?
15. Would you rather wear a costume that’s easy to walk in or one that looks amazing but won’t let you sit down?
16. Would you rather dress up as a pun or as something truly creepy?
17. Would you rather wear a giant inflatable costume or one with a long, dramatic cape?
18. Would you rather dress up as a pumpkin or as a scarecrow?
19. Would you rather win best costume or most creative costume?
20. Would you rather be a bat that can’t fly or a ghost that can’t float?

Hard Halloween would you rather questions

Save these for the end of the night, when the group is ready to argue. Most of them don’t have an obvious answer.

1. Would you rather know how every scary movie ends or never be able to guess an ending?
2. Would you rather see ghosts but never talk to them or talk to ghosts but never see them?
3. Would you rather have Halloween every month or never have Halloween again?
4. Would you rather be a vampire who can never see the sun or a werewolf who changes every full moon?
5. Would you rather be the only person who can see the monster or the only person the monster can’t see?
6. Would you rather give up Halloween or give up your birthday?
7. Would you rather stay in your house forever as a friendly ghost or move on and never know who lives there next?
8. Would you rather always be a little bit scared or never feel scared of anything again?
9. Would you rather trade places with your pet for Halloween night or with your next-door neighbor?
10. Would you rather have a magic broom that only flies 5 miles an hour or a car that only drives at night?
11. Would you rather relive your best Halloween ever or skip ahead to next year’s?
12. Would you rather turn any candy into your favorite or turn into your costume for real for one hour?
13. Would you rather lose all your candy or lose your costume on the way to the party?
14. Would you rather know for sure a real haunted house is in your town or never find out?
15. Would you rather be the scariest person at every Halloween party or the funniest?

Ways to use these questions

At a Halloween party

Use the cards as the first game while people arrive, since nobody needs the rules explained. They also work as a break between louder games. Our Halloween games for all ages has a full party plan built around games like this.

In a classroom

Read one question as a warm-up each morning in October, or use the “walk to your side” version for a class party. Stick to the funny, kids and candy sections. Kids can write their own questions on index cards for the last round; theirs tend to be the strangest ones.

At work

Read one at the start of a meeting and take a show of hands. The candy, costume and adults sections are all office-safe. Our office Halloween party games has more games that work at work.

At the dinner table or on a drive

No cards needed. Pull this page up on a phone and take turns reading. With two players, try guessing each other’s answer before you both reveal.

Looking for questions that aren’t about Halloween? Our would you rather questions list has 300 more, and every Halloween game we make is on the Halloween games page.

Questions hosts ask

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