IRL Games ยท The Spooky Collection

Six spooky games for the weeks around Halloween.

Wake the mummies with a countdown, fetch ingredients for a witch, and pass a pumpkin that hands out curses. Each one is a game your family already half-knows, with a spooky twist that stays friendly for the littlest players.

The six games

Play them in a backyard, at the park, or on the living room floor. Every page has the full how-to-play and the ways to scale it from one kid to a crew.

A grown-up and a kid wrapped as mummies lie on the grass, the kid just sitting up with stiff arms, while four kids circle them at a careful distance

Coplay Original

Mummies

Tag, the kind where getting caught means you switch sides.

No kit 10 min You run too Park or backyard Ages 3+
A grown-up in a witch hat sits cross-legged stirring a bucket while four kids run in carrying leaves, a wand-shaped stick, two round rocks and a small pumpkin

Coplay Twist

Witch's Brew

Fetch Quest, our scavenger hunt where the grown-up stays put and calls the quests.

No kit 5 min Parent sits Park or backyard Ages 3+
A grown-up and four kids sit in a circle on a picnic blanket passing a small pumpkin with stiff zombie arms while a phone plays music

Coplay Twist

Cursed Pumpkin

Hot potato. Pass it around the circle while the music plays, and try not to be holding it when the music stops.

Pumpkin + music 5 min Parent sits Anywhere Ages 3+
Four kids frozen mid-step in zombie poses with arms straight out, each at a different distance from a grown-up who has just turned around to look

Coplay Twist

Haunted Statues

Red light, green light. Sneak forward while the caller looks away, and freeze when they turn around.

No kit 5 min Parent is the keeper Grass or open space Ages 3+
A kid touches a big tree that is base while others search the bushes, and one kid points and shouts at a grown-up hiding under a sheet behind a bush

Coplay Classic

Ghost in the Graveyard

Hide and seek, run in reverse. One ghost hides and everyone else goes looking.

No kit 10 min You hide too Park or backyard Ages 4+
Four relay moments side by side: a kid wrapping a grown-up in toilet paper, a kid building a stick skeleton, a kid riding a broom, and a kid tapping a ghost balloon into the air

Coplay Twist

Spooky Relay

The relay race. Teams take turns running a leg, and each runner tags in the next.

TP, noodle, balloon 15 min Parent gets wrapped Park or backyard Ages 4+

Two of them come with a helper for your phone

Free to use. They work offline at the park, and you can add them to your home screen.

The ingredient generator on a phone, showing one leaf with a hole a bat could see through, while a grown-up in a witch hat stirs a bucket and a kid runs in with a leaf

Witch's Brew

The Witch's Brew ingredient generator

Tap for an ingredient to call out, or browse the whole pack on your phone.

Open the generator

The curse flipper on a phone with two curses in play, while kids on a picnic blanket do zombie arms and bat wings around a jack-o'-lantern

Cursed Pumpkin

The Cursed Pumpkin curse flipper

Tap for a random curse, or flip through them all and stack as many as you dare.

Open the curse flipper

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Membership opens all six spooky games in full, along with every other IRL game, script, and guide in the library.

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