The Winking Game and Tempt Your Fate

This year during our 3rd Annual Halloween Party, we debuted two new games to provide additional entertainment for our guests. Despite a few timid guests, the games were a success. Next year, we feel they will be even more successful. These games helped break the ice and allowed guest to converse and get to know one another!

Tempt Your Fate

We made several kind and cruel fate cards. The kind fates allowed guests to pick a treat (such as Halloween candy, or silly prizes) and a chance to enter in the grand prize drawing (4 pack of a variety of DarkNoon Brewery beers and a DarkNoon Brewery bottle of Mead). Cruel fate cards required guests to do a silly task. We placed each card into a balloon (They will fit if you fold them down enough times). Miata Guy wasn't very good at this because he kept forgetting to put the fate card in the balloon before blowing it up! We placed fate cards inside the balloons so that everyone knew when someone was tempting their fate, ensuring no one got out of a cruel fates!

A guest warding off cruel fate by picking his nose!

Examples of cruel fates

-Get on all fours and howl at the moon
-Take a ride on the broomstick around the house or yard
- Pretend you are a Zombie for the next 2 minutes
- Be a personal slave of the last person who tempted fate until someone else tempts fate
- Say noway to everything said to you for the next 5 minutes
- Imitate one of the hosts for 5 minutes
- Take your photo with 2 people you don't know

If you would like more examples, I can send you a word document with all the ones I came up with!

To prevent explaining the game several times we made a poster.

The Winking Game

Each guest received a card with the following information

 

BEWARE!!!

There is a winking killer amongst us. Yes, you read that correctly, winking! Before the night is over, the murderer will make eye contact with you and wink once at you with one eye. This means you have been killed. Your murderer has decided to end your life by

                              (a random assigned predetermined death)

You will have 2 minutes to choose where you would like to die…. then…die. Yes, we must see you die. Remember, the killer will not perform the action…this is your job! The killer will wink and expect you to complete the death. The more creative, dramatic, and visible the death, the better we will remember you by. Once killed, DO NOT REVEAL THE KILLER, or you will be very lonely on the other side.

Rule One- Do not discuss your role, speculations on the murderer, or any aspect of the game with anyone.  DO NOT TALK ABOUT IT!

Rule Two- If you are winked at/murdered you must die within 2 minutes. If you do not die the murderer will alert Lama Lover, and there will be dire consequences.

Rule Three- Haven’t been murdered yet and think you know who the murderer is? Write down your name, your guess, and the time then place your guess in the Pumpkin in the garage. The murderer is not allowed to attack within 5 feet of the pumpkin. However do not think of this as a safe zone! No loitering! First correct guess wins! 

Each card contained a different way the person was to die after being winked at. Some deaths were

- bored to death

-shot to death

- kicked by a horse

- burned alive

-frighten to death

- being run over by a train

I have a list of about 40 different ways which people could die which I can send as a word document.....just let me know :)

One guest received the following card

 Congratulations!!!

You are tonight’s wink murderer!!!

Your job is to “kill” everyone at the party before the night is over. To kill a guest, wink at them once with one eye. Be sly, cautious and subtle for everyone knows there is a winking killer on the loose, so they may try to avoid eye contact with you. Your victims will have 2 minutes, after being winked at/murdered, to die. Therefore, you have time to flee the crime scene, get a good seat, and enjoy watching them die.

Let the killing begin! But be careful, your goal is to not get caught.

Rule One- Do not discuss your role, speculations of the murderer, or any aspect of the game with anyone! DO NOT TALK ABOUT IT!

Rule Two- Make sure the victim you wink at knows you winked at them. Your wink must be discernible as an actual wink. If your victim does not die within two minutes, alert Lydia privately and your victim will meet dire consequences.

Rule Three- You are not allowed to kill within 5 feet of the Pumpkin where other guest will be casting their guess. 

The wink killer was able to kill several people before being discovered. Those already killed did a great job not revealing the killer! 

Next year, I hope Miata Guy will be the mediator so I can have a chance to play.

Awesomeness goes out to the huntsman for dying first and putting on a great show! Awesomeness also goes out to the 80's tourist, and the bee keeper for great performances as well! Oh! And of course Father Time for killing everyone!

80's tourist die from being bored to death!