Krillion Recorded answers
462 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the grid as a memory test on calendar folklore rather than a popularity poll. Begin by listing the broad functions the date serves in different places: honouring the dead, warding off harm, forecasting a partner, feeding a household, entertaining children, staging a public spectacle. For each function, push past the obvious modern activity into older or more local versions of it, because the reveal rewards precision over familiarity. Then move outward geographically: island communities, mountain villages, port towns and immigrant neighbourhoods all preserve variants that never became mainstream exports. Finally, check the wording of what you recall — a named dish, a named game and a named procession are all separate entries, and a specific event title usually scores better than the generic activity it belongs to.
Get a hint
Start with the widest frame: almost every region keeps at least one observance tied to the turn of the season, so the field includes private rituals, neighbourhood events and commercial spectacles alike.
A little more
Narrow by function rather than by fame — some customs exist to remember the dead, some to forecast a future spouse, some simply to frighten neighbours or feed a crowd, and each function hides its own cluster of names.
One step further
Go granular: the scored entries tend to be single, named practices with a clear setting, a fixed procedure or a signature dish, often recorded in one town or one island and rarely translated into English.
Reveal answers 462
- Bloody Mary mirror gameRare60points
- BonfiresRare60points
- Candy cornRare60points
- Carving turnipsRare60points
- Checking the candyRare60points
- Corn mazesRare60points
- Costume contestsRare60points
- Dressing up petsRare60points
- Face paintingRare60points
- FireworksRare60points
- Ghost huntingRare60points
- Ghost toursRare60points
- Halloween bar crawlsRare60points
- Halloween blood drivesRare60points
- Halloween cakewalkRare60points
- Halloween carnivalsRare60points
- Halloween craftsRare60points
- Halloween dancesRare60points
- Halloween divination gamesRare60points
- Halloween drinksRare60points
- Halloween Horror NightsRare60points
- Halloween murder mysteriesRare60points
- Halloween paradesRare60points
- Halloween scavenger huntsRare60points
- Halloween video-game eventsRare60points
- Harvest festivalsRare60points
- HayridesRare60points
- Listening to Halloween musicRare60points
- Mischief NightRare60points
- Mummy wrappingRare60points
- Painting pumpkinsRare60points
- Playing horror video gamesRare60points
- Popcorn ballsRare60points
- Pumpkin chuckingRare60points
- Pumpkin racingRare60points
- Pumpkin smashingRare60points
- Roasting pumpkin seedsRare60points
- Rocky Horror screeningsRare60points
- Salem Haunted HappeningsRare60points
- SamhainRare60points
- School Halloween paradeRare60points
- Séances and Ouija boardsRare60points
- Thriller danceRare60points
- Trading candyRare60points
- Watching Halloween specialsRare60points
- You've been booedRare60points
- Zombie paintballRare60points
- Bobbing for applesSchooler30points
- Candy applesSchooler30points
- Decorating for HalloweenSchooler30points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks obscurity within the category, not effort. The single hundred-point entry, Hwch Ddu Gwta, is a regional Welsh visitation figure most players would never reach, so it sits alone at the top. The 343 answers at 85 points share that same texture: named local processions such as the Allentown Halloween Parade or the Alton Halloween Parade, calendar-specific folk rites like Allantide or the All Hallows' Eve vigil, divination games such as apple peel divination, and named foods such as barmbrack or colcannon. Each is a real, documented practice with a proper name, retrievable only if you know the region. The forty answers at 60 points are still specific but easier to reach — recognisable public customs rather than village-level detail. Anything below that band was presumably the first thing most people say: the generic activity everyone performs, which the reveal scores low precisely because thousands of players land on it at once. The lesson is that a narrower name always beats a broader one, provided it genuinely belongs to the date.