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TELLING A SCARY TALE GAME
Object of the Game
Each person gets one minute to make up a scary tale.
What You Need
Index cards, a pen, a minute timer.
What You Do
Get a pack of index cards and a pen. Write a phrase on each card that would be a scary
line for story or that has to do with Halloween (see below for ideas). Get a minute timer.
Then pass around the deck of cards face down. Turn down the lights and light a candle to
set the mood or give each person a flashlight to hold under their face as they speak.
Each player picks a card from the deck and begins to spin a tale for one minute. When
the minute is up, he/she hands the cards to the next person, who picks one and turns the
story another direction. Each person should repeat the last line spoken by the previous
person so the story keeps going. The game ends when the last person has taken a turn,
when the cards run out or when everyone has had enough of it. It's an endless game! This
game is better for children over the age of 6 to adults.
Ideas for cards:
It was a stormy night ...
The candlelight flickered in the wind ...
The coffin creaked ...
Inside the boiling pot, a hand bobbed ...
A banshee screamed ...
The claws belonged to a wolfman...
A body lay in the corner! It looked like ...
The door creaked open. It was a vampire...
The skeleton stood up and shook itself off ...
The goblet was filled with blood ...
As the light switched on, rats scattered ...
From the open grave rose a ......
Suddenly the severed head opened its eyes...
I felt something moving on my shoulder, it was ...
The ghost moaned ...