Here are 44 Halloween would you rather questions, written for groups that are already dressed up. They are sorted by where you will be using them: the costume party, the trick-or-treat walk, the pumpkin carving table and the movie night afterward. Every one is spooky rather than scary, so they work for a mixed group.
Halloween falls on October 31, and many of its traditions happen in groups: kids going house to house in costume asking for candy, friends at a party, families around a table with a knife and a pumpkin. Each of those settings needs slightly different questions, which is why they are split up below instead of dumped in one long list. Say “would you rather” out loud and read the pair; on camera, the pair alone is faster to take in.
Would you rather questions for a costume party
These are for a room full of people in costume, where the costumes themselves are the easiest thing to talk about. Open with these; they get people laughing before anyone has to think.
- Wear a costume that itches or one that squeaks?
- Be a witch with no broom or a broom with no witch?
- Have glowing eyes or glowing hair all year?
- Wear your costume for a week or never dress up again?
- Be a friendly ghost or a grumpy pumpkin?
- Float everywhere or walk through walls?
- Dress as your pet or have your pet dress as you?
- A flapping cape or a hat that never stays on?
- Be a bat at night or a black cat by day?
- Talk only in spooky whispers or only in cackles?
- Own a haunted closet or a haunted attic?
- Your costume coming alive or your shadow wandering off?
Would you rather questions for the trick-or-treat walk
Short enough to ask between doors. On a walk, nobody is filming a careful answer, so these are all fast picks.
- Only full-size bars but one house, or tiny ones everywhere?
- Only get chocolate or never get chocolate?
- Every porch light off, or raisins at every house?
- Your bucket has a hole, or your flashlight dies?
- Get raisins every house or toothbrushes every house?
- Trade all your candy or keep only one piece?
- Trick-or-treat in the rain or in a scratchy costume?
- Hand out candy all night or miss the party?
- Candy taxed by a parent or sorted by a sibling?
- Eat candy corn forever or never again?
A group on the move will not stop for anything longer. If a question needs explaining, save it for inside.
Would you rather questions for the pumpkin carving table
Carving takes a while and keeps everyone’s hands busy, which makes it the best time for questions that need a bit of thought. People tend to answer more freely when they are looking at a pumpkin instead of at each other.
- Carve blindfolded or let a toddler design it?
- Scoop pumpkin guts barehanded or carve with a spoon?
- Have a pumpkin that talks or a pumpkin that sings?
- Live in a giant pumpkin or a gingerbread house?
- Eat roasted pumpkin seeds or pumpkin pie forever?
- A jack-o’-lantern that grins or one that winks?
- Win the carving contest or the costume contest?
- Carve one perfect pumpkin or ten wobbly ones?
- Orange hands for a day or orange teeth for an hour?
- Your pumpkin rots by Friday or never lights up?
- Lose the costume contest to a dog or a toddler?
Would you rather questions for movie night
For when the lights go down and the group gets a little braver. These lean more into the spooky side, but still nothing gory and nothing borrowed from a real film.
- Sleep in a creaky house or a silent one?
- Hear footsteps upstairs or knocking downstairs?
- Explore a foggy forest or an empty fairground?
- Have a ghost roommate or a ghost pet?
- Watch a scary movie alone or a boring one with friends?
- Sleep with the closet door open or the window open?
- See a shadow move or hear your name whispered?
- Find a secret door or a secret staircase?
- Scream first at every jump or laugh at the wrong moment?
- Lights flicker all night or the doorbell rings with nobody there?
- Watch the scary part with eyes open or just hear it?
Which questions should you start with?
Start with the costume party set, even if you are not at a party. Costume questions are about the thing everyone is wearing, so they need no warm-up and put nobody on the spot. Save the movie night set for last, once the group has loosened up and the room is dark enough for the spooky ones to land.
For a group with younger kids, skip the movie night set entirely and run the trick-or-treat and carving questions twice. For teenagers, the movie night set is the one they will want.
What is the costume problem when filming Halloween prompts?
Masks. A would you rather clip works because the viewer watches someone’s face as they wrestle with the choice, and a full mask hides the one thing the clip is about. Before the take, push masks up onto foreheads or swap to face paint. Hats, capes, wings and wigs are all fine; anything that covers the mouth and eyes is not.
The second problem is light. A room lit only by jack-o’-lanterns looks great in person and reads as a dark blur on a phone. Keep one normal lamp on behind the camera, pointed at the people, and let the pumpkins glow in the background.
When the group is already sitting there in costume and nobody wants to scroll a list, Ranking Filter deals the prompts at random above each person’s head and records the 1 to 10 rail into the clip, so the phone can be passed around the sofa and nobody has to be the one reading out questions.
Where can you find more would you rather questions?
These are drawn from the same style as the evergreen banks, which work any night of the year. Would you rather questions has 48 dilemmas grouped by how hard they hit, and funny would you rather questions is the set to use once the Halloween ones run out and the group still wants silly. If your crowd would rather move faster, the difference between the two formats is laid out in this or that vs would you rather, and for a party where everyone takes turns in the chair, the hot seat game runs on the same energy.