Haunted house games to play in line
A night at a haunted house is a few minutes of screaming and an hour of standing around waiting for it. Let's Tingo gives your group something to do in line. You build a bingo board of things to spot while you wait, everyone gets their own board from the same list, and the first to fill five in a row calls a Tingo.
Play it on the way in, then finish it on the way out, while everyone's still talking about what got them.
Haunted house games for the long line
The line at a haunt is part of the show. Actors work the queue, fog rolls over the ropes, and every few minutes someone inside screams loud enough for the whole line to hear. At a big haunt park, the wait for one house can run an hour or more on a busy night. That's a lot of time to find stuff.
Put the line on the board: an actor sneaking up behind someone, the chicken exit sign, a group in matching shirts, bloody arm. In most games, finds are shared, so when anyone spots something, it shows up on every board that has it. If your group gets split up in the switchbacks, everyone still sees what the others found.
Finish the board on the way out
Some finds are inside, and you only know you got them once you're back out in the open air: a strobe room, a chainsaw, a clown, a hallway that's pitch black. Mark the inside finds after the exit, while everyone's still arguing about who screamed first.
Name a prize when you set it up, like picking next year's haunt, and everyone sees what they're playing for.
Haunted house scavenger hunt ideas to get your board started
These are the kind of finds that make a good haunted house 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.
In line
- Actor in the queue
- Chicken exit sign
- Fog machine
- Scream from inside
- Matching shirts
- Glow necklace
- Covering their eyes
- Wait time sign
- Creepy music
- Someone in costume
- Nervous laugh
- Bloody arm
Inside
- Strobe room
- Chainsaw
- Clown
- Pitch-black hallway
- Drop-down scare
- Mirror maze
- Air blast
- Spinning tunnel
- Creepy doll
- Hidden actor
- Coffin
- Flickering lights
Around the grounds
- Chainsaw at the exit
- Photo spot
- Hot cider
- Funnel cake
- Bonfire
- Hay bales
- Tombstones
- Scarecrow
- Graveyard
- Gift shop
- Jack-o'-lantern
- Full moon
Get your haunt night ready
Build the board before you go and share it in the parking lot, so everyone's already looking by the time you reach the back of the line. Going to a theme park instead? Try these games to play in line. For your own street, there are Halloween games too.
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