Halloween is the one night a year when a worksheet feels like a trick, so most teachers and parents look for something with a bit of theatre instead. A memory board full of pumpkins and ghosts does the job: it looks like a party game, and underneath it is quiet concentration practice — study the board, hold it in your head, spot what changed.
It also works as a party station. Put a tablet on the fancy-dress table, run best-of-three on the easy board, and the winner picks the first sweet from the bowl. Because every game is browser-based, there is nothing to prepare, print or clean up — which on a night when you are also shaving faces onto oranges, matters.
For trick-or-treaters who are sat indoors anyway, the hard mode — more pictures, fewer seconds — gives the older siblings something to be competitive about while the little ones stay on easy.
Choose your difficulty
Every halloween game runs at three levels — easy, medium and hard — switched inside the game at any time. Start easy for little ones, or jump to hard if you fancy the challenge.