← DON'T MOVE

A Halloween party game where the room tries to make you flinch

One person holds their phone perfectly still for 25 seconds. Everyone else has those 25 seconds to scare them into moving. Whoever flinches does a forfeit. It is free, it runs in the browser on the phones you already have, and one link gets the whole party in.

How to run it at a Halloween party

1. One person opens dontmove.fun/party.html, presses PLAY WITH FRIENDS and shows the QR code. Everyone scans it or taps the link. Up to 10 people fit in a room.
2. Pick a forfeit for the loser: one of the Halloween ones below, or any of the 30 free forfeit ideas the game deals.
3. Turn the lights down. The person holding the phone keeps a thumb on the screen and the dot inside the circle while an arrow asks for slow tilts.
4. Everyone else attacks. The host plays sabotage cards on the holder's phone: a flashbang, a haptic strike that shakes it, EYES OFF to black the screen out, and one fake failure per round. Watchers press SCARE THEM, which warns the holder that something is coming without saying what, and throw emoji at their screen. The room can scream as much as it likes.
5. A jerk, a drift out of the circle, a missed tilt or a lifted thumb, and the forfeit is theirs. Last the 25 seconds and whoever set it does it instead. Then the phone moves on.

One house rule: nobody touches the person holding the phone. Scares are for the eyes and ears.

13 Halloween forfeits

• The loser does a zombie walk across the room and back, slowly, in silence.
• The loser tells a ghost story in under a minute. The room rates it out of ten.
• The loser performs a dramatic death scene that lasts at least ten seconds.
• The loser answers every question in a vampire voice for ten minutes.
• The loser narrates the next round like the trailer for a horror film.
• The loser does a haunted-house laugh every time someone says their name, until the next round ends.
• The loser holds the phone next, with the lights off.
• The loser hands out the snacks for the rest of the night.
• The loser draws a pumpkin face of the room's choosing and wears it as a badge.
• The loser speaks only in a haunted-doll voice until the next round ends.
• The loser lets the room pick a spooky lock screen for their phone, for 24 hours.
• The loser acts out how they would die first in a horror film. The room guesses.
• The loser wears the worst costume piece in the house until the party ends.

Like every forfeit in the game, these embarrass the loser and nobody else, need no drink, and are over by the end of the night. Skip any that is not safe or not funny for the person it lands on.

Why it works on Halloween

A scare makes people flinch, and in DON'T MOVE a flinch is the whole game: the phone's motion sensor sees a sudden jerk and ends the round on the spot. So the room is not interrupting the game when it screams; it is playing it. The person holding still is the only one who has to be quiet.

On your own there are also levels, a daily round that is the same for everyone, and dares you can send a friend with your time to beat. How to play.

Questions

What is a good Halloween party game for adults?

One that uses the scares instead of fighting them. Here one person holds still for 25 seconds while everyone else tries to make them flinch, and whoever moves does a forfeit. No drinks and no props needed.

What is a good Halloween party game for teens?

Something everyone can join from their own phone in seconds: no app and no account. One person opens a room, everyone else scans the QR code, and up to 10 people play.

Is it a game we can play indoors?

It is made for a living room. Lights down, sit in a circle, pass the phone round: each round takes 25 seconds.

Do we need to download anything?

No. It runs in the browser on iPhone and Android at dontmove.fun/party.html. iPhones ask once for permission to use the motion sensor.

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