Halloween games: Ouija board, Spirit of the glass – Scariest games to play this Halloween

Halloween has arrived, and it is a day synonymous with all things terrifying. Whether it’s scary movies, dressing up or carving a pumpkin, there are lots of things you can do to get into the Halloween mood.

Halloween is historically a day when the veil between the human and spirit world – sometimes known as the Otherworld – is at its thinnest.

This is why many scary films show seances, ouija boards and other parlour games taking place on October 31 – and often deadly consequences follow.

Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, party games for Halloween often involve some kind of attempt to contact spirits.

If you want to channel your inner Derek Acorah and see what lies on the other side, here are the scariest games you can play this Halloween.

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Ouija board

Also known as a spirit or talking board, Ouija boards are the subject of many a scary film – Ouija (2014, The Exorcist (1973), Paranormal Activity (2009) and The Conjuring 2 (2016) to name but a few.

The ouija board is a flat board with the letters of the alphabet, numbers zero to nine, and the words yes, no, hello and goodbye marked on it.

Users place one finger each on a small heart-shaped piece of wood or plastic called a planchette, and then this spells out words or phrases to those participating.

Ouija boards were commercially introduced in 1890 by businessman Elijah Bond and were regarded to be a parlour game unrelated to the supernatural until American spiritualist Pearl Curran popularised the talking board as a diving tool during World War 1.

If someone hiding is found, they let out a scream, and have to go lie in a predetermined location and play dead until all the others are found.

Light as a feather stiff as a board

As seen in cult classic The Craft, light as a feather stiff as a board is a game which involves the apparent levitation of one person.

This is played in a group, with one person lying in the centre of the others.

The person closest to the head usually begins by saying, “She’s looking ill,” which is repeated several times, and followed by, “she’s looking worse,” which is also repeated several times.

Then finally this ends by saying “she is dying,” and, finally, “she is dead”.

One person then describes how the person in the centre died, before all place just their fingertips underneath them.

The group then chants “light as a feather, stiff as a board” and all lift the person at once, with them seeming weightless.

source: express.co.uk