Halloween games for the walk, the party and everything in between
Halloween already has everyone outside, in costume, looking at their neighbors' porches. Let's Tingo turns that into a game of bingo. You build a board of things to spot, your group gets a board each, and the first to fill five in a row calls a Tingo.
It works on the trick-or-treat route, at a Halloween party, or anywhere your group ends up on the night.
Trick-or-treat bingo for the whole street
You've walked this route before. This year, the kids are watching for the house with the fog machine before you've even reached the corner. If you're after Halloween games for kids that don't need a table and a stack of cards, this one happens on the walk you're already taking.
Pick a game type, tell Let's Tingo you're trick-or-treating around your neighborhood, and it builds a list of finds from that: a porch skeleton, a full-size candy bar, your kid's costume twin. Keep the ones you like, add your own, and share the game with the other families on the walk.
In most games, finds are shared: when anyone finds something, it shows up on every board that has it, so the families up the street can see you just found the giant inflatable.
A Halloween party game that runs itself
A party needs something for guests to do between arriving and the costume contest. Make it a join-any-time game and the board is live the moment you send the link, so people jump in as they walk through the door, with no waiting for the late arrivals.
Pick a camera game and it becomes a photo scavenger hunt: every find needs a picture. Marking "a vampire" opens the camera, and the photo stays with that find for the whole party to see. By the end of the night the board holds a photo of every costume worth remembering, and nobody had to organize it.
Name a prize when you set it up, first pick of the leftover candy or the best seat for the movie, and everyone sees what they're playing for.
Halloween games for teens heading out together
Teens out with friends can play on a board built for wherever they're going: the haunted hayride, the town's big Halloween block, a walk past the houses that go all out. It gives a group a reason to stick together and look around.
Halloween scavenger hunt ideas to get your board started
These are the kind of finds that make a good Halloween scavenger hunt. Use them, change them, or let Let's Tingo suggest its own from what you tell it. For other occasions, browse more scavenger hunt ideas.
On the walk
- Porch skeleton
- Full-size candy bar
- Fog machine
- Giant inflatable
- Orange porch light
- "Take one" bowl
- Grown-up in costume
- Scary jack-o'-lantern
- Teal pumpkin
- Lawn graveyard
- Fake spider web
- Black cat
At the party
- Matching costumes
- A pirate
- A vampire
- Cardboard box costume
- Group costume
- Homemade costume
- Costume with wings
- Monster mask
- Caramel apple
- Candy corn
- Bobbing for apples
- Pumpkin carving
Out with friends
- Hayride
- Corn maze
- Haunted house line
- Someone mid-scream
- Scarecrow
- Hay bales
- Pumpkin patch
- Bonfire
- Apple cider
- Cemetery gate
- Witch on a broom
- Light-up house
Halloween bingo, without the printed cards
Printed bingo cards have the same squares for everyone, and someone has to keep track of who's marked what. In Let's Tingo, everyone gets their own board shuffled from the same list of finds, so nobody can copy, and every board updates live as people play. Five in a row is a Tingo, and most games are a race to two.
Joining a game is always free, in the app or in a browser. Plenty of games are free to make, too.
Get your Halloween game ready
Build the board before the night and share it while everyone's still getting into costume. The same game works for Thanksgiving games with the family, a Christmas scavenger hunt on the night you go see the lights, and a neighborhood scavenger hunt any night of the year.