Name a Halloween tradition
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Carving pumpkins
- Dressing up in costumes
- Haunted houses
- Trick-or-treating
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Bobbing for apples
- Candy apples
- Decorating for Halloween
- Egging
- Halloween parties
- Handing out candy
- Pumpkin patches
- Telling ghost stories
- Toilet-papering
- Trunk-or-treat
- Watching scary movies
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Baking Halloween treats
- Bloody Mary mirror game
- Bonfires
- Candy corn
- Carving turnips
- Checking the candy
- Corn mazes
- Costume contests
- Dressing up pets
- Face painting
- Fireworks
- Ghost hunting
- Ghost tours
- Halloween bar crawls
- Halloween blood drives
- Halloween cakewalk
- Halloween carnivals
- Halloween crafts
- Halloween dances
- Halloween divination games
- Halloween drinks
- Halloween Horror Nights
- Halloween murder mysteries
- Halloween parades
- Halloween scavenger hunts
- Halloween video-game events
- Harvest festivals
- Hayrides
- Listening to Halloween music
- Mischief Night
- Mummy wrapping
- Painting pumpkins
- Playing horror video games
- Popcorn balls
- Pumpkin chucking
- Pumpkin racing
- Pumpkin smashing
- Roasting pumpkin seeds
- Rocky Horror screenings
- Salem Haunted Happenings
- Samhain
- School Halloween parade
- Séances and Ouija boards
- Thriller dance
- Trading candy
- Watching Halloween specials
- You've been booed
- Zombie paintball
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- 17th Street High Heel Race
- All Hallows' Eve vigil
- Allantide
- Allentown Halloween Parade
- Alphabet letters in water
- Alton Halloween Parade
- Amerikamura Halloween
- Angels' Night
- Anne Rice Vampire Ball
- Anoka Halloween
- Apple peel divination
- Apple-seed charms
- Arts in the Dark Halloween Parade
- Athens Halloween Block Party
- Baby pumpkin photoshoots
- Bachîn ringing
- Ballydehob Halloween Parade
- Bandon Banshee Festival
- Barmbrack
- Battering doors with turnips
- Bean divination
- Beggars' Night
- Bernay Samhain Festival
- Bible and key
- Blessing Halloween candy
- Bobbing for pumpkins
- Bolinhos e bolinhós
- Bonfire stones
- Bonfire toffee
- Boo at the Zoo
- Boorito
- Boulder Mall Crawl
- Boundary-stream stones
- Boxty
- Bram Stoker Festival
- Brick or Treat
- Building the house
- Burning nuts
- Burning the witches
- Burning-stick story game
- Calaverita
- Candle blowing
- Candle jumping
- Candles in skulls
- Candles in the window
- Candy jar guessing
- Candy pumpkins
- Candy tax
- Caramel corn
- Carbondale Halloween
- Carrying torches round the fields
- Carving pineapples
- Castanyada
- Chalk Night
- Champ
- Charms hidden in food
- Chestnut hunt
- Chimelong Happy Halloween
- Church porch watching
- Churchill polar bear patrol
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Hwch Ddu Gwta
Welsh bonfire legend: a tailless black sow chases the last to leave.