• This is a great game which should last at least 25-30 mins. Guests will definetly not get bored since gameplay is always active. Guests are encouraged (not required) to work with eachother.

Materials + Preparation:

• Obtain some sort of "body". A plastic 5' tall "lab skeleton should do the trick.
• Hide the body in some non-obvious, but discoverable place. (ie: an outdoor vent covered with leaves)

Instructions:

• Tell the guests that they are detectives looking for a murdered corpse. You (the host) are a psychic they have called upon to help them find the body.
• The first person to grab the body and bring it to you wins the prize. Tell them that you have some strong impressions about places where the body is not hidden, then list everywhere in your home where you don't want people snooping around or pulling things apart.
• Give each guest a poker chip or other token. Tell your guests that if someone brings you a "body" which is not the body in question (ie: a decoration, or another player), they will lose their token and be out of the game.
• Tell your guests that they will have opportunities to ask you yes/no questions about the location of the body. They are allowed to trade the information they learn with other players, but they should be warey that some folk may lie in order to win.

Play:

• Leave all the guests in the main room and go into a separate room (ie: bathroom). Call in each guest (make sure you don't get the same person twice). Tell them they can ask a yes/no question. Answer it and go to the next person.
• Wait ten minutes after the last enquirer has asked their question. If no one has brought you the body, announce a 2nd round of yes/no questions. If no body has turned up by the third round, you have either hid the body to damm well or the guests are drunker than they ought to be.

• This is a really fun game but make sure you have no neighbours who are paranoid enough to call the cops when they see you and your guests wapping a dummy which is hung from a tree.

Materials + Preparation:

• A large tree with an overhanging branch should do nicely, however some sort of pulley or cable-rig (controlled by you) would be ideal.
• Create a scare-crow figure with a papier-mache head. You can create the head by applying newspaper soaked in flour and water over a balloon. After the newspaper has dried, you can pop the balloon with a needle and you'll end up with a form fitting head.
• Fill the head with desired prizes or 'not-so'desired surprises.
• Find a large bat or stick

Instructions + Play:

• This is a fairly simple rendition of the old 'hit the pinata' game. However, in this game, have your guests try to fracture the 'pinata head' off a life-size dummy which is hung by the arms from a tree. If you can control the dummy (ie: with a cable system) the game will become more funny as it becomes more challenging to hit.

• This game is not intended for everyone, so be warned... This game was built around couples, so if you are risky enough to try playing this game with people who don't know eachother -it will be your head on a plate, not mine.

Materials + Preparation:

• All you need is a closet which is big enough for two people. You might also wish to ask your guests (who have make-up in their costumes) to bring some extra make-up to the party.

Instructions + Play:

• Very simple concept. The host pulls out names (from out of a hat) of couples who have arrived together to the party. The guests, after having their name called, must enter the closet and switch their costumes around in the fastest time possible. Remember... details count, so if make-up was used... make-up is now required. Each couple must be timed (to the second) as they try to switch clothes and apply make-up in the dark. Remember: It can be a real ice-breaker at parties if you are willing to have strangers participate. Have fun with this one but make sure you have no skeletons in your closet.

• Here's a great game which I invented when I was staying up at a cottage with a bunch of friends. This can be super fun, however if you are playing indoors...you should try to remove anything breakable from the rooms of your house.

Materials + Preparation:

• You will need one black blindfold. Once again, clear your house of any breakables or pointed objects (put them in a locked bedroom).

Instructions + Play:

• This game is very similar to tag, except the rules have changed. Have somebody selected to be "Eyeless Joe" and blindfold him /her. Give all your other guests about 1 minute to hide around your house. They can hide anywhere, from under tables, to inside closets to even lying in the bathtub. After the time is up, blow a whistle to announce the start of the game. The objective is simple, "Eyeless Joe" must walk around the house (by feeling his way with his hands) and try to tag the guests who are hiding. You should also play this game at night and shut off all the lights. (The darker the better!)
• It is also important that none of your guests move after you blow the whistle. They must freeze in their tracks after the whistle has blown, and wait to see if "Eyeless Joe" can touch them. Make sure the average game lasts under 20 mins.
• Your job, is not only to blow the whistle to announce that start and end of the game but to also follow "Eyeless Joe" and make sure that he or she is okay. (You don't want Joe to fly down a flight of stairs do you.) You can also keep an eye on the other guests around the house. This game is only fun if the guests don't cheat and stay in their places.

• This game is a welcoming (keep the early-guests occupied) type of game for your Halloween Party.

Materials + Preparation:

• Locate several boxes such as large shoe boxes -- boot boxes are great -- laundry detergent cartons, copier-paper box, etc. Check at the office supply store. They frequently have sturdy boxes of various size to give away for free. The boxes should be large enough to permit a hole to be made on one end so that a hand can reach in and feel what is inside. Be sure you can still get into the top or back to add the "contents."

Contents for the boxes:

• eyeballs (peeled grapes or wet olives)
• intestines (wet cold spaghetti)
• liver (a half of a canned peach)
• skin (oil a piece of plastic cut from a storage bag)
• skin (mentioned in a newgroup: an oiled, soft flour tortilla)
• fingers (hot dogs or cheese sticks)
• teeth (unpopped popcorn)
• hair (an old wig or saved silk from corn on the cob)
• brains (gelatin -- let it set-up in a bowl and then unmold onto a plate. You might want to lightly texture the rounded top.)
• brains (mentioned in a newsgroup: freeze and thaw a big piece of tofu- soybean curd- and round off the edges)
• hand (mentioned in a newsgroup: Fill a latex surgical glove with water, drape it over a bowl to give it some shape and freeze it. Cover it with rice or sand so that guest will have to feel for it.
• And one final possibility. Set up the last box so that someone can hide behind it with his or her real, body-temperature hand hidden in the box. Then when a guest reaches a hand through the hole -- shake it... Ahhhhg!!!

Instructions + Play:

• Add a different spooky item to each box. Carefully, line up the boxes on a table or stack them on the floor so the sides with the hand-holes are handy. Drape a black cloth over the top everything to conceal all but the front of the boxes. A few fake cobwebs, dust (cocoa or baby powder), and plastic spiders will add to the illusion.
• As each brave guest reaches through a hand-hole to feel inside, be sure to mention what you think is in there...