Fright Night · the halloween pack · Debate & laughs
Trick or Treat?
Finish a spooky dilemma so the room splits exactly down the middle. Then argue about it over the sweets.
- ~15 min
- 3–10 people
- One device, or phones
- In the Fright Night pack
- Ages 10+
Trick or Treat? is one of the ten games in Fright Night, a pack bought once and kept by your group.
What it feels like
Trick, or treat? It's the oldest question of the night, and nobody ever really answers it. Tonight, you make it harder. Here's how it works. In a private turn, you each get a dilemma with a blank, and fill it so the room can't agree. Then, one dilemma at a time, everyone else votes on whether they'd take it. After that, argue about it, because that's the best part. A perfect half and half split scores three for the writer, and less the more lopsided the vote. If the whole room agrees, the writer scores nothing.
How to play
- Take a private turn each: you get a dilemma with a blank. Fill it so the room can't agree.
- One at a time, everyone else votes: would you take it? On phones, or hands up.
- The closer to half and half, the better for whoever wrote it.
- Then argue about it. That's the best part.
Scoring: A perfect split scores 3 for the writer, and less the more lopsided the vote. A unanimous room scores nothing.
You'll get prompts like
- “You get all the sweets on the street, but you have to wear ___ until midnight.”
- “Your costume wins every contest, but underneath it you're ___.”
What you need
3 to 10 people and one phone, tablet or laptop to pass around — or everyone on their own phone in a room. Nothing to download, no accounts. The best lines can be sealed into your group's Almanac and come back in later games.
