Holly O. Wene's Halloween Party: Kids' Mystery Party Game

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Regular price $40.95
Product details
  • Type Download
  • SKU HOLLYO
  • Age Range 7 to 9
  • Minimum # of players 6 Suspects
  • Max Players (Main Game) 10 Suspects
  • Max players available 14 Suspects (Expansion Pack Sold Separately)
  • Difficulty rating Easy Breezy, 2/10
  • Character roles Co-Ed or *All-Female (*By skipping optional Males - see Host Character List)
  • Interactive Extras Riddle Chain Scavenger Hunt, Announcements, Certificate, and Graphics for Finale Hunt
  • Game Duration 2 to 4 Hours Average (Flexible Timeline)
  • Game format Competition| Mysteries, Jokes, Scavenger Hunts | 4 Rounds
  • Vibe and Content Notes Halloween House Party Vibin' * Clean Kid Drama
  • Date of publication 2009. Last Revised: 2024

A fun scavenger-hunt-style Halloween mystery party game. The main game features five age-appropriate mysteries to solve. One expansion pack, sold separately, adds 4 required gender-flexible characters and four additional mysteries, expanding the complete game to 14 unique players solving nine mysteries.

This playful Pumpkin Town adventure is packed with colorful costumes, Halloween jokes, party games, tricky mysteries, a riddle-chain scavenger hunt, spooky treats, pumpkin-themed challenges, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to inherit the world’s most fabulous pumpkin patch.

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Helpful Links:

Free player pre-game website for the 10-character main game of Holly O. Wene’s Halloween Party

Main-game players can prepare for Holly’s celebration with character information, costume suggestions, details about Pumpkin Town, and the story behind Polly Pumpkin’s mysterious retirement announcement.

Scroll down below to see the host character list, download the free invitation, and view the sample game materials. 

Kids Halloween Mystery Party Game Synopsis:

Holly O. Wene is famous for hosting the most exciting Halloween parties in Pumpkin Town. Every October, hopeful guests eagerly check their mailboxes for an invitation to her legendary celebration. With Halloween approaching, the town’s most colorful personalities are preparing creative costumes, spooky snacks, party games, and plenty of festive fun at Holly’s mansion.

This year’s celebration includes a very special announcement from Mrs. Polly Pumpkin, the owner of the world-famous Polly Pumpkin’s Pumpkin Patch. Rumors are swirling that Polly plans to retire and is searching for someone worthy of inheriting her extraordinary pumpkin patch. However, she will not choose a successor without putting the hopeful candidates to the test.

The guests must investigate five fun mysteries, share Halloween jokes and clues, complete a riddle-chain scavenger hunt, and take part in a final pumpkin hunt before Polly selects the grand-prize winner. Your invitation to Holly O. Wene’s party has arrived, so choose your costume carefully and prepare to solve the mysteries of Pumpkin Town!

Expand the Holly O. Wene Halloween Mystery Game:

  • Main Game: 10 unique character roles
    • Players investigate and solve five age-appropriate mysteries.
    • Very light roleplaying - the game is about bonus games and the fun mysteries to solve.
  • Expansion Pack: 4 additional character roles
    • Sold separately.
    • Adds four additional mysteries to the game.
    • Changes the minimum group size from 5 to 9 players.
    • Expands the game to 14 unique characters and nine mysteries.
    • The expanded 14-character configuration uses the pre-game website at /hollyoparty.
  • Character Pairs or Teams:
    • For groups larger than 14, two or three children may share each character role.
    • Players sharing a role work together to solve the mysteries and complete the scavenger hunts.
    • Shared characters are duplicate team roles rather than additional unique characters.

This is a non-murder kids mystery. The players compete to solve Polly Pumpkin’s challenges and win the right to inherit her world-famous pumpkin patch.

Roleplaying is intentionally minimal for this age group. The game focuses primarily on mingling, sharing clues and Halloween jokes, solving mysteries, and completing scavenger hunts.

Browse kid-friendly Halloween decorations, creative costume ideas, spooky treats, pumpkin-themed activities, scavenger-hunt inspiration, party games, and more on the Pinterest board!

Holly O. Wene’s Halloween Party kids mystery Pinterest board

Host Character List, Game Preview & Free Resources

This game is licensed for personal, private use only. If you plan to use it for any commercial purpose, public event, business, organization, school, fundraiser, church, promotional activity, paid event, or any use that generates revenue or provides a commercial benefit, you must purchase a Commercial License.

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