Halloween Tag is a Halloween-themed chasing and fleeing game in which students get to play a variety of roles that are sure to get their heart rate up! Witches, wizards, zombies, and ghosts... this game is spook-tacular!
Students should keep their eyes up to avoid contact with other students.
Students should be careful of any students sitting on the ground (who have been tagged by a witch).
Builds allow you to increase the game's complexity, one layer at a time.
Players get into a scattered formation. On the teacher's signal, all players begin moving about the playing area while avoiding contact with other players and looking out for the different coloured lines on the floor.
This build exists to help students understand the limits of the game before any roles are introduced.
Use this build to set the boundaries and to name the floor lines you want students to notice. Anything you establish here becomes a shared reference point once the chasing starts.
Players now play the game with the full version of the rules.
The teacher may play several rounds at this build, adding an additional witch with every new round.
Adding a witch each round is the simplest way to raise the difficulty without changing the rules. Watch for the moment the space gets tight enough that speed alone stops working, since that is when students start reaching for other tactics.
Two players are given pinnies and will play as the ghosts.
If a player is tagged by a ghost, the tagged player must step out of bounds, dance for ten seconds, and then return to play.
The ghosts cannot be tagged by the witch.
One player is selected to be the zombie. The zombie moves around the playing area while dragging a hoop with one of their feet.
If the zombie tags another player, and they cannot tag ghosts, witches, or wizards, the tagged player collects a hoop and rejoins the game as a zombie.
There will therefore be more and more zombies as the round goes on.
This build is designed to run down, since almost everyone ends up a zombie. Call the round while there are still a few runners left rather than waiting for the last one.
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