The Best Jack O’ Lantern Games

Jack O’ Lantern is the one image that comes to everyone’s mind when you think of Halloween Night. Halloween Night is considered to be the night when the evil spirit and ghost freely roam around on earth. However, now-a-days, Halloween is celebrated as joyous festival. Most people have get- together and theme parties where they dress up as ghosts. Jack O’ Lantern is a must have item to decorate your home for Halloween. The popping eyes balls and the vicious smile that is carved on a pumpkin is known all over the world.

Jack O’ Lantern has a very interesting story too. It is believed that Old Jack was on the doors of Hell and refused to enter it. He affronted all the leaders of Hell. At last, he made a deal with them and it was decided that he would never be allowed inside Hell. However, when Old Jack reached heaven, he was not allowed an entry there either for being such a miser. Hence, it is believed that Old Jack was handed a lantern in form of a pumpkin to roam around helplessly on earth. It was a common sight to see Old Jack roaming around in the streets. Since he was a spirit, only his bright pumpkin lantern could be seen in the dark.  Since then, people used to place Jack O’ Lanterns outside their home.

Here are The Best Jack O’ Lantern Games that you can organize for your Halloween Party.
Carve out Jack O’ Lantern: This is one of the most popular games played in U.S. All you need is a lot of Pumpkins and knives. Each person is allotted a time slot of two to three minutes. They have to carve out a replica of Jack O’Lantern. This game can actually be a lot of fun. Most people create the funniest versions of Old Jack. The different interpretation of Old Jack will make a great memoir too.

Who’s the Jack: – Simply make chits and on any one chit, you need to write down “Old Jack” or draw a picture of the pumpkin lantern. Everyone picks up the chits and the one who gets the “Old Jack “ chit is the Jack. Only the host knows the real Jack. The team has to unanimously vote for one person who they think is “Old Jack”. If the person who is voted out is not Old Jack, the person with the Old Jack chit gets more points. This game is lot of fun and the person with the “Old Jack” chit has to keep pretending like he is one of them while he is slowly removing the others out of the game.  If you are good enough, you win and if not, you have to roam around with the Old Jack mask.

So, if the theme for your party is Jack O’Lantern, add a little spice to your party with these fun Jack O’ Lantern Games.