Its not too late to get some people together and throw down with some horrifically good gaming! To make sure you don’t have any excuse for having a Halloween night board game blow out, we’ve taken the liberty of listing out some of the best spooky games you can pick up at your FLGS (no out of print stuff here!)!

Read on for our list of the best creepy games for your Halloween game fest!

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The Magic Tooth Fairy Game is a game of pure luck that comes with a toy: a little pillow under which you can put a tooth. Push the handle and look! The tooth changes into a gold coin! Wow!

Gives you something to do with the teeth you pull out of your head as you play this game.

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Onexeno is a game similar to dominoes with a bit of Gipf thrown in.

There are 70 tiles, 1 for each possible combination of dark and light shadings around the periphery of a 3X3 matrix, e.g.

You take turns playing and picking tiles, or just picking if you can’t play. The table space is an artificial 5×5 board, defined as the tiles are placed. You must match tiles when you place. Whenever you form five tiles in a row, you take the tiles.

The game ends when no one can play any more. Your score is the number of tiles you’ve taken minus the number left in your hand.

Only less cool people will realize Onexeno is a palindrome spelled out on the back of the tiles.

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This nifty ring is useful for keeping track of life counters or hit points, depending on what gets your geek on.

It says that it counts from 0 to 99, but any fool can see that you can count from -999 to +999 on it.

A little quiz: Say you had two of these rings, one in each color. How high could you count?

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Another game I saw in the banner ad, SORRY! Sliders is more Shuffleboard than Sorry!

Again you can set the board up in various ways. Then you slide your pawns on little ball bearings into the middle of the board, trying to remain in the high-scoring circles, knock other people’s pawns out, and land in the center hole or avoid landing in the center hole, depending on with which side of the board and which rules you opt to play.

Board Games With Scott gave it a mini-review, calling it a poor-man’s Crokinole.

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I saw an ad for this on our Amazon sidebar banner and wondered what it was all about.

Twister Hopscotch is a lot more Hopscotch than Twister, but it includes some design fostering skills.

There’s a standard way to set up the path, but the rings can be broken apart and attached any way you want. And there’s a standard way to play – spin the spinner and avoid stepping in that color – but variants include having to perform certain tasks, simultaneous player traversal, stepping ONLY in the designated color, and so on.

Pretty Maker for a Twister game. Not enough Twister, though.

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Gut Bustin’ Games publishes Redneck Life and Trailer Park Wars, as well as expansions for these games.

While some might be offended by the humorously expoited stereotypes, the game was created by women typically described as rednecks, and is selling well. It’s probably popular with the same people who like Jeff Foxworthy, who has his own redneck game.

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Suicide Bomber the card game (yes, it’s available on Amazon) from Bucephalus Games (an appropriate name for mindless male testosterone) carries on the tradition of games about serial killers but makes it contemporary, thus even less palatable.

The VP of sales defends the game:

Players are not bombers–the cards are. I think that this speaks to the idea that anyone can be a terrorist. All too often we pigeonhole people and miss the seed of hate that creeps into “safe” areas of life. Suicide Bomber reminds me of this–while being fun. Educational games are hard to create. You want something that teens will want to play, and that will educate them. Something irreverent and edgy that teaches some lessons is perfect. I think that Suicide Bomber is an example of such a product.

While another point of view in an earlier thread reads:

As a former U.S. Marine and current employee of the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs (Veteran’s Health Admiistration) that services our men and women in uniform, I found myself completely repulsed by re topic of your game. There is dark humor – and then there is no humor. This game is absolutely abhorrent. I wonder if you’d like to demo it in the lobby of our hospital for U.S. veterans? Perhaps you could enlighten our greeter (no left arm, missing right thumb, completely reconstructed skull as a result of the hilariously funny topic of your game), as to where the humor might lie? Perhaps you could demo it for some if the refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan? I’m sure they would find the game a laugh riot! Oh, nothing helps you get over a dead child like a good “darkly funny” game of killing innocents.

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ChessMotifs sells clothes and accessories with chess-themed prints.

Some rather artistic.

For generic board and card gaming accessories, also try Meeple People, GameInk, or uberbadger.

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300 Wishes Board Game is simple enough: pick a wish card, and then write which player you think would most identify with that wish.

Not to be confused with Frank Miller’s 300: Board Game, where you pick a card and then push the other player into a well while screaming at the top of your lungs. Although, I think that’s one of the wish cards.

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