10 Halloween Party Games

I got so tired of searching the internet for halloween party games for adults and just finding all the conventional children's games adapted into drinking games. If you really want to turn these all into drinking games you can, but I think they are fun just as they are.....

1. GRAVEYARD TREASURE HUNT

This one is probably the most genuinely scary (and possibly disrespectful) of the party games.
You'll need torches, the host needs to prepare the clues in advance and you'll need a graveyard nearby! Give everyone the name of a deceased person. They need to find the grave of that person and then at that grave they'll find a piece of paper with another name on it. Keep going until the final grave has a group prize on it, instead of another name.


2. WHO AM I?

Stick names of famous scary movie characters to peoples head. They are to ask other people questions to try and work out who they are.






3. WITCH'S BREW COCKTAILS

Some members of the party make witch's brew style cocktails. The rest of the party sample them and decide whose is the tastiest and whose is the most halloweeny!
You'll need Cocktail glasses, Halloween decorations e.g. haribo sweets, Food Colouring, Fizzy Drinks, Straws Etc.


4. A SÉANCE

Gather in a circle and ask one of your more confident eccentric guests to lead everyone in a séance - an attempt to communicate with the spirits.




5. GUESS THE GRUESOME OBJECT OR GRUESOME FOOD

What you need:

- A big sheet of cardboard with two arm holes cut into into for guessing the gruesome object and a mouth hole for guessing the gruesome food.
- Gruesome objects and gruesome foods

6. HALLOWEEN TRIVIA QUIZ

Write a halloween trivia quiz. This could have historical questions about the origins of halloween, questions about famous gory crime, famous incidences of paranormal activity etc. etc.
Hand it out of the start of the night. Guests have a go at it in pairs Take them in at the end of the night. The pair who got the most right get a prize.

7. MASKING TAPE RACE

Divide your party up into teams of four or more. Lay down a long strip of masking tape for each team. Have the strips parallel. In a sort of relay, each team have to race up and down the masking tape strips without falling off the sides. They will have to go up and down as many times as it takes to call out all the letters in 'HALLOWEEN'. If they fall off at any point, they have to start the word again. The first team to complete the word win. You will need judges!

8. GUESS THE GHOST

One guest is blindfolded and then another guest is selected to be the ghost and a sheet is placed over them. The blindfolded party member has to feel the ghost and try and guess who it is!

9. SCRAMBLED WORDS

On a white board, write a load of anagrams of halloween themed words. Guest have to try and unscramble them. To spice things up.... Each guest could have to try to unscramble a word under a time limit. If they have not unscrambled it when their time is up, they get splattered with something!

10. SILENT MOVIE

Get your guests to arrange themselves into teams of threes or fours. They have to come up with a silent movie (and optionally film it). Each team is given a bag of random props (prepared by the host in advance)to base their plot around! Each team acts it out to the rest of the party, or shows a screening of it.

Two Powerful Films in Two Days: Beasts of the Southern Wild and Sophie Scholl

Watching 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' was like getting caught in a whirl pool. Right from the moment you start watching it you are sucked in. And from then on you just start spinning faster and faster until eventually you are engulfed and spat out the other side. You cannot get back to where you were before. You are changed by watching the film and enter a slightly altered world. I suppose that is because your eyes have been opened to a part of your own world you weren't in touch with and so your world then does seem altered.
I was in a small independent cinema watching it and at the end I wanted to be brave enough to start clapping and I'm pretty sure the rest of the audience would have joined in, so strong was the feeling the film gives you at the end, but I wasn't brave enough to initiate the rapture. Afterwords I didn't feel like talking or discussing the film. It took me five minutes or so to adjust myself so that I was ready to receive information and communicate with the real world as the film left me feeling displaced and I needed to claw my way back up to reality. Once I had adjusted though, I felt I walking away with a bit of Hushpuppy in my stride and in my manner. It came out enough that I was slightly concerned my fiancé would notice my feisty swagger and my wide eyed confidence, but he didn't comment. This is testament to the actress's fine performance and how much by the end of the film you feel you have got to know her, indeed for some, become her! (temporarily)

'Sophie Scholl' was also a very powerful film. After watching it, it leaves you in admiration for what these young students did. It makes you reflect on your own life with a critical eye. And you start asking yourself.. How can I be as heroic? Have I ever been heroic? Where in our society is heroism needed? Am I capable of heroism?

Rose Seller

Out in Bristol with my fiancé at night, I spotted a lonely middle aged man in the middle of an empty square, head down, waving his arms which contained lots of glowing sticks and roses in cellophane. My fiancé said, 'I bet he's not getting much business'. This made me want to cry.

I felt sorry for him and so said to my fiancé 'Oh I'd love a rose! Please Please Please' I ended up with two roses, as the guy didn't have any change. This is something like what they looked like...

The Balancing Blue-Bottle

Percy Smith was a natural history film maker. Fascinated with plants and animals he made short films about them. To his wife's great frustration, every room in the house became dedicated to a different life cycle and allegedly his home is no longer in existence as nature, in particular, moulds, took it over. Here is one of his most famous clips, of a fly glued down upside down, twirling objects in his legs. Despite the fact that Percy Smith is said to have freed the flies at the end of each film, this still is cruel.

Mitt Romney Quotes.....

When searching Mitt Romney for a picture of him, the first search option that came up was 'Mitt Romney GAFFES'... not encouraging.

Here are a couple of the many alarming things said by Mitt Romney in the third presidential debate....

"We are going to have North American energy independence... We are going to do it by taking full advantage of OIL, COAL, GAS, nuclear and other renewables)." Oh dear! Green issues arn't his priority!

"We are going to have to do more than just going after leaders and killing bad guys, important as that is!" Oh my god...

As for Obama, what he said differed very little from Mitt Romney's policies. He was obviously trying to win Republican votes. He said the same things, just more eloquently. I did like it though when he said to Mitt Romney 'The 1980s are calling and they want their foreign policies back!'!

Chronocentricity...

"The egotism that one's own generation is poised on the very cusp of history"

Life In a Day

On 24th July 2010, a group of artists asked the people of the world to send them footage of whatever they were doing that day. Thousands responded and the footage was compiled into a film. Here it is. This is amazing - my favourite sort of art - just looking at the real personalities of the people in the world and looking into their real lives.

Here is the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIw7dJg1L84