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A Halloween advent calendar for your team

Every three days, a new task the whole company does together: a haunted house your team lights up window by window, a map of silly prophecies, the witch’s familiars, everyday objects staring back at you. In between, solo quizzes for points. A fall carnival with zero jump scares, a minute on a phone.

  • 🎃 7 company-wide tasks
  • ⚡ 14 solo tasks for points
  • 👻 zero jump scares
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October21 days, 7 windows

company-wide tasksolo task for points

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For employees

Two minutes every three days, and the whole company is in on the costume party

Sign in by email or code

A sign-in link lands in their work inbox, or they type a personal code from the organizer. No passwords, no installs: the calendar opens in the browser on a phone or a laptop.

Something new every day

Every three days, a big task for the whole company. On the days in between, a 1–2 minute solo task: a quiz or a quick round for points.

Everyone's work is visible

The gallery, the map and the canvas belong to the whole company. Post yours, then see what coworkers in other teams and cities made.

Votes and points

Points for solo tasks and for every approved entry in the shared ones. In contests, everyone gets three hearts per award to give to other people’s entries.

October day by day

The Halloween calendar day by day: one shared task and two solo ones

On the first day of each window, a big task opens for the whole company and stays open for three days. The next two days bring short 1–2 minute solo tasks: a reason to check in and earn points. Below is a three-week October example; we match the length and the themes to your team, and the last window wraps up in time for your party.

  1. Day 1🤝 A big task for the whole company, open 3 days
  2. Day 2⚡ Solo: a quiz or a quick round
  3. Day 3⚡ Solo, and a new window tomorrow
Window 1Days 1–3Shared canvas

The Haunted House

Make your own ghost — out of a bedsheet, a paper napkin or a mug with googly eyes — and it moves into a window of the company’s haunted house. Window by window the house lights up, and by the finale it glows from cellar to attic.

“A ghost made from a paper napkin and two coffee beans. His name is Boris and he works the night shift”
How it spreads: the house lights up in front of everyone, and people look for their window, then count how many are still dark: “our team is falling behind — where are your ghosts?”
1 minuteyour own window in the house

⚡Solo · everyone for themselves · points

Day 2Solo · points

Trick or Treat?

Of two lookalikes, pick the one you can eat.

quick round1–2 minutes
Day 3Solo · points

Halloween Around the World

Guess the country from its fall tradition.

picture quiz1–2 minutes
Window 2Days 4–6Map

The Prophecy Map

Pin your city and leave your coworkers a silly prophecy for November: a surprise bonus, no line at the coffee machine until spring, a meeting that ends early. Click around the map to read what other offices are predicting.

“Denver: in November, a meeting will end ten minutes early. Tell no one”
How it spreads: prophecies get read out loud at stand-ups and sent straight to the people they’re about: “look what Chicago predicted for you!”
30 secondsup to 120 characters

⚡Solo · everyone for themselves · points

Day 5Solo · points

Sounds of Halloween

A creaky door, footsteps on dry leaves: name it by ear. Zero jump scares.

sound quiz1–2 minutes
Day 6Solo · points

Halloween Fact or Myth

One statement, one tap. The answer comes with the story.

quiz1–2 minutes
Window 3Days 7–9Photo contest

Childhood Costume

Find a childhood photo in a Halloween costume, from trick-or-treating, a school parade or a birthday party: a vampire with homemade fangs, a pirate with drawn-on whiskers, a witch with a kitchen broom. Three days is plenty of time to ask your parents for that one picture.

“Vampire, 1999. Fangs from a candy aisle, a cape cut from a curtain, the scariest face I could make”
How it spreads: childhood photos are the most forwarded thing in any calendar: “guess who this tiny vampire is!” Everyone wants to see their coworkers as kids, and to vote.
2 minutes3 hearts per award

⚡Solo · everyone for themselves · points

Day 8Solo · points

Who’s That Monster?

Guess where a creature from folklore comes from.

picture quiz1–2 minutes
Day 9Solo · points

Monster Trivia

Werewolves, mummies and the family next door, the Addamses.

quiz1–2 minutes
Window 4Days 10–12Photo contest

Friendly Horror Remake

Recreate a scene from a friendly horror movie, no makeup, no budget: a bedsheet, a flashlight, a cat and some acting chops. Scenes you can shoot in a minute: The Addams Family, Casper, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Hocus Pocus.

“The Addams Family: Wednesday’s dead-pan stare. I held it longer than in the quarterly review”
How it spreads: people recognize the scene in a second and pass it on: “Anna is Wednesday Addams!” In the recap we put the original next to the remake, and that pair is the one everyone wants to share.
1–2 minutes3 hearts per award

⚡Solo · everyone for themselves · points

Day 11Solo · points

Monsters in Emoji

The icons spell out a monster or a movie. Type the answer.

quick round1–2 minutes
Day 12Solo · points

Name That Movie

One frame, four options.

picture quiz1–2 minutes
Window 5Days 13–15Shared canvas

The Witch’s Familiars

Every witch has a familiar, and so does every employee. Upload your cat, dog, ficus or favorite slipper cast as the witch’s helper, and it takes a spot on the shelf of the company’s witch shop. Fill the shelf and the cauldron starts to bubble.

“Gerald the ficus. A familiar with seniority, hasn’t missed a single spell”
How it spreads: people show off their pets more happily than themselves, and the “Not a cat, but it’ll do” corner fills up with ficuses, slippers and one robot vacuum.
1 minutegoal: 200 familiars

⚡Solo · everyone for themselves · points

Day 14Solo · points

Pumpkin or Not?

A quick round: spot the right one in a second.

quick round1–2 minutes
Day 15Solo · points

Superstition Fact or Myth

Black cats, bats and old wives’ tales.

quiz1–2 minutes
Window 6Days 16–18Photo contest

It’s Watching

Find something at work or at home that’s staring at you: an outlet with a surprised face, a faucet, a cabinet handle, a bag with a smirk. Snap it, caption it, and vote for other people’s finds in awards like Intense Stare, Screaming and Spotted at the Office.

“The outlet in Conference Room 3. It has seen too many quarterly reviews”
How it spreads: after this window people see faces everywhere, and they keep posting them in the chat for a week after it closes.
1 minute3 hearts per award

⚡Solo · everyone for themselves · points

Day 17Solo · points

Superstitions in Emoji

The icons spell a tradition or a superstition. Type the answer.

quick round1–2 minutes
Day 18Solo · points

Monster from a Crop

A crop of the picture and four options.

picture quiz1–2 minutes
Window 7Days 19–21Photo contest · finale

Expectation vs. Reality

The most honest finale of October. Two shots in one: how it was supposed to go, and how it actually went. The Pinterest pumpkin and the pumpkin after the knife, decorations for the whole house and one cobweb on the lamp, the spider cake from the recipe and whatever came out of the oven. When the window closes, we announce the results of the calendar.

“Expectation: a Pinterest pumpkin. Reality: a pumpkin that had never met a knife before”
How it spreads: everyone sees themselves in someone else’s photo — “that’s literally me!” — and forwards it. A finale people bring up again at the party.
2 minutes3 hearts per awardcalendar results

⚡Solo · everyone for themselves · points

Day 20Solo · points

Quiz About Your Company

Questions about the company and its people, written with your HR team.

quiz1–2 minutes
Day 21Solo · points

October Recap

Questions about the shared tasks: were you paying attention?

quiz1–2 minutes

The screens are animated sketches: icons stand in for players’ photos.

Viral by design

Why it spreads through the company

We don’t make anyone join. The tasks are built so people invite each other.

Easy to start

Every task is a minute on a phone, with examples ready. Nobody wonders what they’re supposed to do, so even the quiet ones join in.

Get to know a coworker

A ghost in a window, a childhood costume, a horror-movie remake, an outlet with a face: you want to know who made it and show the person next to you.

Voting

Authors share the link themselves and ask for votes. Every entry brings in new viewers.

Made for the chat

A funny picture gets forwarded without explanation, and it works better than any email from HR.

Safe topics

Pumpkins, candy, pets, childhood costumes and friendly horror: things people already love to share. No gore, no jump scares, nothing about how anyone looks.

Moderation

Photos go up after review. Jokes stay jokes, and people aren’t afraid to post.

What we doOn top of the platform: the things that turn a calendar into an event people talk about.

  1. Leaders go firstBefore each window, 3–5 leaders post theirs. An example from the top answers the “what do I post?” question.
  2. A recap after each windowA Top 3 image for the window (for the horror remakes, next to the original) and a short message for the team chat with a link to the next window. Your HR team posts it.
  3. A nudge mid-window“150 windows lit in the haunted house — whose ghosts are we missing?”, “Gerald the ficus is up to 60 hearts.” One message in the chat brings a wave of new players.
  4. A final “Our Calendar” posterThe best entries from all seven windows and the glowing haunted house on one poster: for the party, the chat and your employer-brand channels.

The platform

Player dashboard, results and moderation, ready to go

Everything runs on our platform, with nothing to install or build. The screens are sketches with sample data.

For players

A dashboard with the calendar

  • Sign in with a work email or a personal code, with no passwords or installs
  • A short form on first sign-in: a name and, say, a team
  • A grid of windows with statuses: done, open, coming up, missed
  • Your own points and progress: “10 of 21 done”
  • The company’s shared tasks right there, with an entry counter
  • Times follow each player’s time zone, on a phone or a laptop
Results

The results board

  • The top 3 for every award, revealed to everyone once voting closes
  • For the organizer: a summary per player with tasks, points and time
  • Excel export for prizes and the report
  • Co-organizer access by link, no sign-up, revoked in one click
  • We announce the points leaders in the recaps and at the finale
Admin panel

Moderation for photos and texts

  • One queue for every task, photos and texts alike, with a filter by task
  • Publish, Reject, or Publish all at once
  • Rejected entries aren’t deleted and can be brought back
  • Players see “in review”, and if rejected, an offer to replace the entry
  • A counter of new entries on the tab, so nothing slips by

Made for your company

A calendar that looks like yours, not ours

Your logo and style

Your logo in the player dashboard, and the shared canvases drawn in your style: the haunted house, the prophecy map or an idea of your own.

Questions about you

A quiz about the company, the product and the people, written with your HR team. Contest awards are matched to your culture too.

Your occasion, your prizes

The holidays, Halloween, a company anniversary or a product launch: the themes and the design change, the rhythm stays.

Questions

Questions about the Halloween calendar

The calendar keeps to one tone: a fall carnival. Pumpkins, candy, childhood costumes, pets and friendly horror movies. No rituals, no fortune-telling for real. You can pitch it to the team as a fall festival or a costume party.

No. No gore, no sudden sounds, no jump scares: think The Addams Family, not Saw. People open the tasks between two meetings, often with headphones on.

No, a phone is enough. Ghosts are made from a napkin or a bedsheet, a familiar can be a cat, a ficus or a slipper, and the faces for It’s Watching are already hiding in outlets and faucets.

You choose the length, from four days to three weeks. A 4–5 day calendar built from ready-made tasks comes together in a couple of days, so the last week of October still works.

A solo task, a quiz or a quick round, takes 1–2 minutes. A big company-wide task takes anywhere from ten seconds to a couple of minutes, and it stays open for three days, so people join when it suits them.

The calendar leads up to the party: by the finale the haunted house glows from top to bottom, the award winners are known, and the results are ready to show at the party. For a live game with a host on the night itself, see our Halloween games.

Nothing. The calendar opens in the browser on a phone or a laptop. People sign in with a link sent to their work email or with a personal code, with no passwords and no VPN.

Only coworkers taking part in the calendar. Everything is moderated first: the organizer publishes or rejects entries in the admin panel, and rejected entries can be brought back.

Yes. Your logo in the player dashboard, a quiz about your company, your own photo-contest awards and a haunted house in your colors.

More editions

The same calendar for any month and for the holidays

One task a day works for any occasion: the themes, the canvases and the design change, the rhythm stays.

Any month

Advent Calendar

The everyday edition: a mug shelf, a hobby map, a pet office and memes, with a company-wide task every three days.

See the calendar →Holiday season

Holiday Advent Calendar

A company tree made of everyone’s ornaments, a wish map, a tree battle and holiday quizzes all December long.

See the holiday calendar →

MORE FOR YOUR TEAM

Other activities

Other ways to play without everyone on one call.

  • Icebreaker Tournament

    Teams clear co-op challenges and race one leaderboard over 2 to 30 days.

    See the tournament →

  • Game Marathon

    A story game over one to five days: people drop in when it suits them and results build on one leaderboard.

    See the marathon →

  • Music Bingo

    Song-clip bingo for a room, for teams, or as a solo run against the clock.

    See Music Bingo →

Sprechen Sie mit uns über Ihr Event

Wir gehen Format, Spielauswahl und Teamstruktur in einem 20-minütigen Gespräch durch — keine langwierige Discovery, kein Slide-Pitch. Sie verlassen das Gespräch mit einer konkreten Empfehlung und auf Wunsch einem Kalendertermin.

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