Halloween Game Festival ,October 25–31

Sunday through Saturday • 4–8pm nightly

Free admission at Purple Dragon Games!

A whole week of games, giggles, and sweet Halloween victories awaits! Bring the family to Purple Dragon Games for our Halloween Game Festival, featuring a new theme every night and three different board games each day. Play alongside our friendly game leaders, take on tabletop challenges, and discover your next family favorite—all for free!

Our game leaders will help explain the rules and get the fun rolling, making it easy to join whether you’re a seasoned board gamer or trying something new. Each evening brings fresh opportunities to test your luck, put your clever ideas into action, and share a memorable night of fun and laughter. You might work together, face off in friendly competition, or find yourself laughing at a plan that went hilariously wrong!

And what’s Halloween without candy? We’ll have free candy prizes to add a little sweetness to the tabletop challenges throughout the evening.

Come for one night or make us part of your Halloween plans all week. With a new nightly theme and three fresh games every day, there’s always another adventure waiting at the table. All ages and experience levels are welcome—bring your family, invite your friends, and join the fun!

RSVP TO THIS EVENT AND GET A FREE COMPLIMENTARY SIZED POPCORN! Just present your online RSVP to the matching event at the register and you will be given your popcorn!

TONIGHT'S GAME CHALLENGES

Quick Frights

Before Halloween disappears into the shadows, there is time for one last wobble, one more outrageous story, and a very suspicious bag of apples. Quick Frights closes our festival with playful suspense, mischievous bluffing, and the kind of sudden disaster that makes the whole table burst out laughing. Tonight’s scares come from a trembling tower, an answer delivered far too confidently, and a Sheriff who would very much like to inspect your belongings. Keep your hands steady and your expression innocent. We believe you completely. Almost.

Jenga — The Tower Has Developed a Nervous Condition

Nothing is chasing you. Nothing is hiding beneath the board. Somehow, removing one small wooden block still feels like a terrible idea. In Jenga, players carefully pull blocks from the tower and stack them on top, making the structure taller and increasingly unstable. Every successful turn hands the next player a slightly more alarming problem. What makes Jenga unforgettable is the suspense everyone shares: the room falls quiet, the tower shifts, and an innocent little movement suddenly has an audience. The rules take moments to understand, but steady hands and good judgment become harder to maintain when everyone is watching. It is a wonderfully simple Halloween thrill—especially when the eventual crash makes the person who wasn’t even playing jump the highest.

Players: 1 or more; take turns with a group or challenge yourself.

Game length: Allow roughly 5–15 minutes per tower; timing varies with the players.

Difficulty: Very easy rules; the challenge is dexterity, patience, and choosing the right block.

Recognition: Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2020.

HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME: Steady your nerves with Triple S Games’ Jenga tutorial on YouTube.

Sounds Fishy — The Truth Is Wearing a Disguise

Someone at this table knows the real answer. Everyone else has decided that inventing one will be much more entertaining. In Sounds Fishy, the guesser hears several answers to an unusual question and tries to identify the false ones without accidentally choosing the truth. The other players deliver their answers with whatever confidence, theatrical flair, or suspicious hesitation they can muster. Each correctly spotted red herring earns the guesser points, but one unfortunate choice can sink the whole attempt. What makes this game unforgettable is discovering which of your friends can make absolute nonsense sound like something they learned in a documentary. Trivia expertise is unnecessary; imagination and a convincing delivery are much more useful. This Halloween, the truth has joined the costume party—and it is doing a remarkably poor job of looking trustworthy.

Players: 4–10.

Game length: Approximately 15 minutes.

Difficulty: Easy; quick rules and creative bluffing, with no specialist trivia knowledge required.

Award recognition: Winner of the Games category at the 2023 Gift of the Year awards.

HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME: Learn to separate tricks from truth with The Way We Roll’s Sounds Fishy tutorial on YouTube.

Sheriff of Nottingham — Nothing Suspicious in This Bag

Just a few apples, Sheriff. Perfectly ordinary apples. The nervous smile is unrelated. In Sheriff of Nottingham, players become merchants trying to bring valuable goods into the marketplace, while taking turns as the Sheriff inspecting their deliveries. Merchants declare what their bags contain, then use persuasion, bluffing, and bribes to encourage a favorable decision. The Sheriff can investigate, but inspecting an honest merchant’s bag comes with a penalty. What makes this game unforgettable is the negotiation: elaborate promises, indignant protests, and the discovery that someone’s most suspicious performance was entirely truthful. Sometimes honesty is the cleverest trick at the table. Sometimes that bag contains considerably more than apples. It is a lively finale of shady deals and theatrical innocence, with a longer game for anyone ready to settle into one last scheme.

Players: 3–5 in the original edition; 3–6 in the second edition.

Game length: Approximately 60 minutes.

Difficulty: Easy to moderate; approachable bluffing and negotiation, with scoring to learn.

Award recognition: The original edition won Best Board Game at the Origins Awards presented in 2015.

HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME: Practice your most innocent expression with Watch It Played’s Sheriff of Nottingham tutorial on YouTube, which teaches the original edition.