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October · 4 days to 3 weeks · up to 50,000 participants

An advent calendar for Halloween at work

Build your October from three formats: a weekly company-wide task (Haunted House, Fortune Map, Shadow Theater), plus a solo quiz for points or a mini-game every day. A couple of minutes on a phone, and the whole company spends October together, with the finale at your Halloween party.

🎃 3 company-wide mechanics⚡ 12 solo tasks🎮 8 mini-games

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Why October

Halloween is one night. October is three weeks

At most companies, Halloween looks like this: a couple of pumpkins in the conference room and a party half the team shows up to. The calendar stretches the fun over three weeks and brings everyone in, including remote folks and people who don't care about Halloween.

Everyone can join, from any city and time zone

Nothing to buy: a phone with a flashlight is enough

Pumpkins, candy and family-friendly spooky movies: no rituals, no jump scares

Three formats

Build your Halloween calendar from three formats

Each format is its own box. Take one, two, or all three: a shared weekly project keeps the company together, while solo quizzes and mini-games give people a reason to drop in every day.

🏚️ windows light up over 5 days

Whole company

one task · open for 5 days

One big shared project for the week, in one of three mechanics: a Haunted House where everyone gets a window, a map of joke prophecies from every city, or a photo contest with voting.

  • Canvas: Haunted House
  • Fortune Map
  • Awards: Shadow Theater

Solo tasks

new every day · 1–2 minutes

Tasks of the day: Halloween quizzes and local legends, emoji puzzles, guess the sound, trick or treat. Everyone plays solo, and points go to the shared leaderboard.

  • Halloween Around the World
  • Emoji Puzzle: Monsters & Movies
  • What's That Sound?
🎮 solo or as a team

Mini-games

new every day · 1–3 minutes

Platform arcade games with a Halloween mood: fight off zombies, brew a potion, climb a magic tower. Solo or in teams, on phone or computer.

  • Zombie Invasion
  • Pac-Mania
  • Spell Potion

1Pick your formats

2How many weeks

Book a call
Your OctoberClick a window or a week's banner to pick your own task

This is a sample rhythm: we'll tailor the order, the task mix and the days off to your team and your party date. You can run a quiz and a mini-game on the same day, and add your own company tasks.

What's inside

Halloween calendar tasks: company-wide, solo and mini-games

Company-wide tasks in three mechanics (Canvas, Map and Awards), each open for 5 days; 12 solo tasks that take 1–2 minutes, and 8 mini-games. Hover over a card to see a recording from the platform.

Canvas: one shared house built by the whole company

Everyone adds a piece and the picture grows in real time: you can see how many windows are lit and how many are left to hit the goal.

Haunted House on the platform: employees' ghosts light up the windows of the shared house
Task 1open for 5 daysShared canvas

Haunted House

Snap your own ghost (a bedsheet, a pillowcase or a shadow on the wall) and it takes a window in the company's shared house. Windows light up one by one, and by party night the whole house glows.

“The Ghost of Procurement: only appears Fridays after 6”
Why it spreads: the house grows in front of the whole company: everyone looks for their window and their coworkers', and dark windows are a reason to nudge the rest.
1 minuteyour own window in the house
Canvasopen for 5 days

Pumpkin Patch

Everyone draws a face on their pumpkin right on screen, from sweet to sly, and it joins the company's shared patch. Hit 200 pumpkins and the patch lights up.

1 minutegoal: 200 pumpkins
Canvasopen for 5 days

Potion Shop

Invent a potion: a name, three ingredients and an effect, like “Friday Deadline Elixir” or “Monday Remedy Tonic.” The bottle goes on the shelf of the shared shop.

1 minutename and recipe

Your own canvas

Pumpkins with your company logo, a haunted office, a costume showcase: we'll build the canvas around your brand and goals.

Create your own

Map: prophecies and stories from every city

Pins come in from any city: tap a dot to read what coworkers there wrote.

Fortune Map on the platform: joke prophecies for coworkers from different cities
Task 2open for 5 daysMap

Fortune Map

A joke prophecy for coworkers plus your city on the shared map: “A surprise bonus in November,” “No coffee line till spring.” Tap a pin to read what someone in another city predicted.

“Next week, every missing pen will turn up in the conference room”
Why it spreads: people forward prophecies to the chat with “this one's about you,” and empty cities on the map just beg to be filled.
1 minuteyour city
Mapopen for 5 days

Urban Legends

Your city's scary story in two sentences: a ghost on the subway, a house with a clock that runs backward. By the end of the week, you have a guide to the legends of every office.

1 minutea pin and a couple of lines
Mapopen for 5 days

Where the Monsters Live

Which creature roams your part of the world (Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, Mothman) and one tip for staying on its good side. Every city has its own monster.

1 minutea pin and a tip

Your own map

A map of your offices and branches, the legends of your building, or your year's journey, with your questions and pins.

Create your own

Awards: photos, votes and winners

Tasks that get people away from their laptops: participants post photos, vote with hearts in each category, and the top 3 is revealed to everyone after voting. Nothing to buy.

Shadow Theater on the platform: a gallery of employee shadows and voting
Task 3open for 5 daysPhoto contest

Shadow Theater

Shine your phone flashlight on anything and snap the shadow on the wall: a hand wolf, a fork spider, a mug castle. Entries go to a shared gallery, and coworkers vote in three categories: “Handmade,” “No Way” and “Tells a Story.”

“It's a stapler. Honest. Look at the shadow”
Why it spreads: shadows are fun to decode: people debate in the comments what it's made of and call on the author to confess.
2 minutes3 categories
“It's Watching” photo hunt on the platform: objects with faces in the gallery
Task 4open for 5 daysPhoto Hunt

It's Watching

Find an object with a face (an outlet, a faucet, a cabinet handle) and snap it. Categories: “Staring Contest,” “Screaming” and “At the Office,” voted on by coworkers.

“The coffee machine on the third floor definitely knows something”
Why it spreads: after this window, the whole office sees faces in outlets and brings new finds to the gallery.
1 minute3 categories
“Witch's Helper” photo contest on the platform: employees' pets
Task 5open for 5 daysPhoto contest

Witch's Helper

Show off your “familiar”: a cat, a dog, a ficus or a slipper playing a witch's helper. No pet? There's a category for that: “Not a Cat, But It'll Do.”

“Familiar: Gary the cactus. Casts spells silently”
Why it spreads: everyone checks out coworkers' pets, and “Not a Cat, But It'll Do” gets the most votes.
2 minutesface in the shot is optional

Your own contest

Best DIY costume, scariest desk, pumpkin with your logo: we'll come up with categories for your team.

Create your own

Company-wide tasks and most solo tasks are platform recordings; “Who's This Monster?”, “Spooky Movie Still,” the company quiz and the wrap-up are animated mockups.

The tone

A fall carnival, not the occult

Companies feel differently about Halloween, and that's fine. So the calendar keeps one tone, and you can pitch the theme to your team as a “Pumpkin Party” or a “Fall Carnival.”

Carnival, not mysticism

Pumpkins, costumes, candy, family-friendly spooky movies: yes. Rituals, pentagrams and “real” fortune-telling: no.

Zero jump scares

No blood, no loud noises, nothing popping out. The benchmark: “The Addams Family,” not “Saw”, because people open a window between two meetings.

We tell, we don't test

Everyone can handle a question about Irish turnips; only three in a thousand know who directed 1978's “Halloween.” That's why the questions are about learning.

No props needed

No task requires buying anything: a phone with a flashlight is enough plus the dark outside, which falls by 6 p.m. in late October.

On top of the platform, we handle:leaders post firsta weekly digest for the team chata counter: “40 windows to go until the house glows”a final poster: “Our Halloween”
Platform

Join with a link, and see all of October at a glance

Participants need one link, organizers need one screen. Below are recordings from the platform itself: how people get into the calendar, what you see as October goes on, and how a moderator manages the windows.

Join in seconds

One link for the whole company: an employee enters a game name, picks a department if needed, and they're in. No accounts, no passwords, no personal data. Entry is configurable: with or without teams, by open link or by list.

Analytics for every day of October

How many people opened today's window, which days dip, who's leading and how departments are doing. Everything updates in real time, so you can see where a chat reminder would help. One-click CSV export.

Moderation and chat

The moderator opens windows on a schedule or manually, reviews photos of shadows, “familiars” and objects with faces in photo tasks, and replies to participants right away, to everyone or to a specific team.

Ties into the party

October ends at your Halloween party

The calendar doesn't compete with the party, it builds up to it. For three weeks people get to know each other through ghosts in windows and shadows on walls, and on October 30 they show up to the party already warmed up, with inside jokes and results they want to see on the big screen.

  • A results screen for the room

    The glowing Haunted House, the Fortune Map, the month's numbers and the department leaderboard, all launched from the host's laptop.

  • Awards, no brainstorming needed

    Not just one first place but many kinds of wins: “Handmade,” “Screaming,” “Not a Cat, But It'll Do,” already decided by coworkers' votes.

  • A house for the company to keep

    A high-res facade of every employee's ghost: print it and hang it in the office.

October Wrap-UpOctober 30 · the room
205windows lit in the Haunted House
196predictions on the map
218votes in Shadow Theater

Sample results screen: a calendar run over three weeks of October.

FAQ

Halloween calendar FAQ

Can we build a calendar from just some of the formats?+

Yes. The three formats work like building blocks: a weekly company-wide task, solo Halloween quizzes and mini-games that open every day. Pick one, two or all three. Mini-games can be played solo or in teams, on phone or computer.

Not everyone at our company celebrates Halloween. Won't that be awkward?+

The calendar keeps one tone: a fall carnival with pumpkins, candy, costumes and family-friendly spooky movies. No rituals, no pentagrams, no “real” fortune-telling, no jump scares. You can pitch the theme as a “Pumpkin Party” or a “Fall Carnival,” and swap any window for another one from our library if it isn't right for your team.

Do we need to buy anything, like pumpkins, costumes or decor?+

No. No task requires buying anything: for windows where you snap a photo, a phone with a flashlight and whatever you already have at home or in the office is enough. Photo tasks never require showing your face.

We decided in early October. Can we still launch in time?+

Yes. A short run of three to five tasks comes together in a couple of days from ready-made tasks, with nothing to build from scratch. We add your logo and brand colors right away, and questions about your company if there's a week left before launch.

Our team is spread across cities and time zones. What do we do?+

A window stays open all day and doesn't need a shared time slot: people open it on a break, in their own time zone. The shared canvases (Haunted House and Fortune Map) stay open for more than a week, through October 28, so everyone gets a turn, including people who were traveling.

How does the calendar connect with an October 30 party?+

The calendar is the three weeks before the party; the party is the celebration itself. By that evening, your team already shares context: the Haunted House is built from employee photos, the Fortune Map has every city marked, and the results screen is ready for the room. The finale itself is booked as a separate service, and you can pick a live hosted game on the Halloween page.

Do we need prizes?+

Not necessarily. Photo task categories like “Handmade,” “Screaming” and “Not a Cat, But It'll Do” work without prizes: winning by coworkers' votes feels good on its own. If you have a prize budget, we'll suggest where to tie it: individual standings, the department leaderboard or the categories.

What does a Halloween calendar cost?+

It depends on the number of participants, the length of the run and how much customization you want: five windows of ready-made tasks is one thing, three weeks with questions about your company and cards in your colors is another. Tell us about your team and dates, and we'll put together a quote.

What does the company keep after Halloween?+

A high-res Haunted House made from every employee's photo (print it and hang it in the office), a Fortune Map with all your company's cities, personal and team cards for participants, and an engagement report in CSV. The same calendar can later be built for Holidays , with only the themes and design changing.

October

Tell us about your team and party date, and we'll build October around them

October books up early: the sooner we start, the more time for questions about your company and design in your colors.