Halloween Would You Rather for Couples
Costumes, candy and just enough fright, picked in secret and revealed together.
- Time
- 15–30 min
- Players
- Two players, one phone
- Best for
- Halloween night in
- Deck
- 100 dilemmas in 5 categories
How to use these Halloween would you rather questions
- Pick a category from the menu on the card, or leave it on “All categories”.
- One of you taps a pick while the other looks away. The pick is hidden right away.
- The other taps theirs, and both picks appear together, whether they are the same or not.
- Talk about why, then tap “Next question”.
When to play Halloween would you rather
Halloween is a night in for a lot of couples: a bowl of candy, a scary movie half watched, and the doorbell going every few minutes. A quick game fits right into it.
Waiting for trick-or-treaters
One card per doorbell. The questions are short enough to finish between knocks.
Carving pumpkins
Prop the phone up on the table and play Treats with sticky hands.
A scary movie night
Play Spooky before the movie, then see which of you was right about who jumps first.
Ways to play on Halloween
Between trick-or-treaters
Leave the phone by the candy bowl and play a card every time the doorbell rings. By the end of the night you will have played half the deck.
Pick the night’s plan
Play Cozy night in before you decide what to do. Whatever you both picked is the plan; if you picked differently, do both.
Costume planning
Stay on Costumes for a round while you plan this year’s outfits. The answers make good ideas.
Tips for a fun Halloween game
- Turn the lights down and play by pumpkin light.
- Start with Treats or Costumes, then move to Spooky once you are warmed up.
- Skip freely. Some cards will fit your Halloween better than others.
All 100 halloween would you rather questions for couples by category
Every card in the game, grouped by category. Read them aloud, or let the game deal them in a random order.
Costumes
Matching outfits, last-minute ideas and who gets to wear the cape.
- wear costumes that obviously matchorwear costumes that only make sense side by side
- dress as a famous pair from a fairy taleordress as salt and pepper shakers
- sew your costumes from scratchorbuy them ready to wear the night before
- pick your partner’s costume this yearorlet your partner pick yours
- wear a costume that’s adorableorwear one that’s properly creepy
- go as two classic bedsheet ghostsorgo as a pair of glamorous vampires
- win the costume contest for being funniestorwin it for being the most jaw-dropping
- wear a full mask all nightorsit through an hour of detailed face paint
Show all 20 in CostumesShow fewer
- dress as yourselves at age tenordress as yourselves at ninety
- go as two foods that belong togetherorgo as two animals that belong together
- wear a costume with a long dramatic capeorwear one with a tall pointy hat
- wear a giant inflatable costumeorwear a costume covered in tiny lights
- go as a scarecrow and a croworgo as a black cat and a full moon
- spend weeks planning your costumesorthrow them together an hour before
- wear your costume all day, errands includedoronly put it on once it’s dark
- go as a pun only clever friends will getorgo as something everyone recognizes instantly
- give an old costume a clever new twistorwear something brand new
- have a costume that’s comfy enough to nap inorhave one that looks amazing in photos
- be a superhero duo you inventedorbe a pair of cartoonish villains
- wear a costume with a secret candy pocketorwear one with a built-in hand warmer
Spooky
Creaky floors, foggy mazes and just enough fright to grab a hand.
- walk through a haunted house holding handsorride a spooky hayride under one blanket
- stay a night at an inn said to be hauntedorjoin a lantern-lit ghost tour of an old town
- hear mysterious footsteps in the atticorhear soft knocking at the window
- find your way through a foggy corn maze at nightorexplore a creaky old mansion with a guide
- be the one who jumps at every scareorbe the one who laughs at every scare
- tell ghost stories by flashlightorlisten to a spooky audiobook in the dark
- share your home with a friendly ghostoradopt a black cat that seems to know everything
- be chased by actors on a haunted trailorsolve a spooky escape room before the clock runs out
Show all 20 in SpookyShow fewer
- live in a house with a secret passageorlive in one with a portrait whose eyes follow you
- visit a creepy wax museum after darkorvisit an old lighthouse said to be haunted
- watch a scary movie with every light offorwatch it with every light in the house on
- have a house ghost that hums old songsorhave one that keeps hiding your socks
- take a midnight walk through foggy woodsorsit by a bonfire while the wind howls
- be a scarer at a haunted house for a nightorbe one of the guests getting scared
- meet a werewolf who just wants a belly rubormeet a vampire who’s afraid of the dark
- own a doll that moves when nobody’s lookingorown a music box that plays by itself
- hide under a blanket during the jump scaresorcover your partner’s eyes instead
- go on a full-moon hikeorgo on a lantern-lit cave tour
- spend Halloween night in an old stone castleorspend it in a cabin deep in the woods
- find a bat living in the atticorfind a hand-sized spider on the porch
Treats
Candy hauls, pumpkin bakes and the great chocolate-or-sour debate.
- hand out full-size candy barsorhand out little bags of homemade popcorn
- roast pumpkin seeds togetherorbake a pumpkin pie from scratch
- keep only the chocolate from your candy haulorkeep only the sour and chewy ones
- dip caramel apples togetherordecorate spooky cupcakes together
- trade candy piece by pieceorpour it all into one big shared bowl
- sip hot cocoa with tiny marshmallow ghostsorsip warm apple-cinnamon tea by the window
- have a pumpkin-spice-everything dayorhave a candy-for-dinner night
- bake bat-shaped cookiesorbake mummy-wrapped brownies
Show all 20 in TreatsShow fewer
- bob for applesoreat a donut off a string with no hands
- try a mystery candy you’ve never seenorget your all-time favorite every time
- give away the best candy to the kidsorsave the best candy for yourselves
- have a lifetime supply of candy cornorhave a lifetime supply of caramel apples
- go trick-or-treating like kids one more timeorstay home and hand out candy in costume
- finish your candy stash in one nightormake it last until winter
- build a haunted house out of cookiesorbake a cake that looks like a jack-o’-lantern
- make a big batch of homemade fudgeormake a tray of soft homemade caramels
- eat warm cinnamon donuts at an orchardoreat warm kettle corn at a fall fair
- sort your candy into neat piles firstoreat it straight from the bag
- take on a super-sour candy dareortake on a mystery-flavor jelly bean challenge
- cook a dinner where every dish looks grossorcook a fancy autumn dinner by candlelight
Cozy night in
Blankets, flickering pumpkins and a porch light left on for visitors.
- watch black-and-white monster moviesorwatch new spooky comedies
- carve pumpkins out on the porchorpaint pumpkins at the kitchen table
- build a blanket fort for a scary movie marathonorread spooky short stories aloud by candlelight
- make caramel popcorn for movie nightormake gooey oven s’mores for movie night
- go all out decorating the houseorkeep it to a few candles and pumpkins
- watch one truly scary movieorwatch three silly spooky ones
- lounge in matching skeleton pajamasorlounge on the couch in full costume
- play a spooky board gameordo a thousand-piece haunted mansion puzzle
Show all 20 in Cozy night inShow fewer
- serve soup in a hollowed-out pumpkinormake a big pot of chili for a costume potluck
- listen to rain on the window with a movie onorlisten to a crackling fire with a book
- turn your living room into a haunted houseormake it the coziest room on the block
- carve one big pumpkin togetheroreach carve a small one as a surprise
- host a spooky dinner partyorhave dinner for two by jack-o’-lantern light
- drape fake cobwebs over everythingorstring orange lights over everything
- make up ghost stories for each otherorread old local legends together
- dance around the kitchen to a spooky playlistorcurl up in silence and watch the candles flicker
- go to a big costume partyorthrow a costume party for two at home
- sit on the porch to admire the costumes going byorwatch them from the window, curled up inside
- do a spooky photo shoot at homeormake a spooky stop-motion video together
- make a scrapbook of your Halloweens togetherormake a mini movie of this year’s night
Romance
Harvest moons, crunchy leaves and sweet October moments for two.
- kiss in a pumpkin patch at sunsetorkiss under a full moon
- kick through crunchy leaves on a long walkorrake a giant leaf pile and jump in together
- carve your initials into a pumpkinorcarve a big heart into one for the porch
- waltz together at a masquerade ballorhost a masked dinner for just the two of you
- find a love note hidden in your candy bagorfind a tiny pumpkin with a message on the doorstep
- get a costume your partner made by handorget surprise tickets to a haunted house
- relive your first Halloween togetherorplan your dream Halloween for next year
- take a cozy photo in a pile of leavesortake a dramatic photo in your costumes
Show all 20 in RomanceShow fewer
- watch the harvest moon rise from a hilltoporwatch fog roll over a lake at dawn
- receive a bouquet of tiny pumpkinsorreceive a bouquet made of candy
- be an immortal vampire couple who’s seen every centuryorbe a pair of scarecrows guarding one cozy farm forever
- write your partner a silly Halloween poemordraw your partner a spooky little card
- share one long scarf on a chilly walkorshare one big blanket on the porch
- start a Halloween tradition just for you twoorjoin a big neighborhood one together
- take a moonlit walk through a quiet villageortake a lantern-lit boat ride
- sneak a kiss behind a hay baleorsneak a kiss in a dark haunted hallway
- be serenaded by your partner dressed as a vampireorget a love letter in spooky calligraphy
- carve a pumpkin that looks like your partnerorbake a cookie that looks like your partner
- stay cuddled up through the whole scary movieorhold hands and squeeze at every jump scare
- go apple picking on a crisp afternoonorpick out pumpkins at a patch together
Frequently asked questions
How many Halloween would you rather questions are there?
There are 100 questions, 20 in each of five categories: costumes, spooky, treats, cozy night in, and romance. The game and the list on this page use the same set.
Are the questions too scary?
No. Spooky means creaky floors and foggy mazes, not gore. Everything is written to be read out loud, and the scariest card is about who grabs whose hand first.
Can we play with friends at a Halloween party?
The game is made for two, but you can read the cards aloud to a group and let everyone answer. For couples at the party, take turns with the phone.
Is there a version for the rest of the year?
Yes. The main would you rather for couples game has 150 questions for any night, and this or that is a faster version.