The Who Am I game is one of the most popular party games for adults. This variant is perfect for Halloween or a party with a horror theme!
In the “Who am I?” game, you stick a piece of paper on the forehead of each party guest, on which a known person or character is written, which you are now. In turn, all players with yes-or-no questions try to get knowledge about who they are as quickly as possible. Thus, the player whose turn it is asks a question and all others present answer truthfully either yes or no. For example:
Am I a real person?
Am I a human being?
Am I a movie character?
So each question may contain only one aspect, which is affirmed or denied. The winner is the player who first guesses who he is. Over is the game, however, only when everyone has cracked the riddle, which person he embodies.
In the original variant, each player thinks of a character, writes it on a piece of paper and sticks it to the forehead of the player to his left.
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Who Am I? Game as a Halloween Party Game for Adults
This variant of the popular Who Am I game is perfect as a party game at a horror or Halloween themed party. At its core, the main difference from the original game is that all players embody a person, character or creature from the theme of horror. This can be horror characters like Dracula – but also their good counterparts. Since this limits the choice here is a list of suggested characters. As the host, it’s best to choose the terms beforehand and write them down on slips of paper. Especially if many present do not know each other and can not estimate how knowledgeable the party company is in the horror genre – everyone should, after all, have the opportunity to guess who he is.
Ideas For’s Who Am I? Game From the Horror
Known People and Characters From the Horror Genre
- Count Dracula / Jonathan Harker /Dr. Van Helsing / Mina
- Jack the Ripper
- Elisabth Barthory
- Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde
- Death / Grim Reaper / Grim Reaper
- King Kong / The White Woman
- Frankenstein’s Monster / Victor Frankenstein
- Werewolf
- Vampire
- Lucifer / The Devil / Prince of the Underworld / Prince of Hell / Satan / Beelzebub
- Zombie / Living Dead
- Alien / Extraterrestrial
- Cannibal / Man-eater
- Deadly Virus
- Ghost / Ghost
- Succubus / Incubus
- Nightmare / Alb / Night Spirit /Sylvan
- Demon / Baal / Medusa / Lilith / Asasel / Belial / Asmodaeus
- The witch from Hansel and Gretel
- The bad wolf from Little Red Riding Hood
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Cthulhu
- The Golem
- Chimera / Manticore / Centaur / Sphinx
- Ted Bundy (Serial Killer)
- Jeffrey Dahmer (serial killer)
- Fritz Haarmann (Serial Killer)
- Aileen Wuornos (serial killer)
Famous Authors and Filmmakers of the Horror Genre
- Stephen King
- H.P. Lovecraft
- George A. Romero
- Mary Shelley
- E.T.A Hoffmann
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Washington Irving
- Bram Stoker
- Nicolai Gogol
- Thomas Harris
- Sergei Lukyanenko
- Dean Koontz
- Wolfgang Holbein
- John Carpenter
- Dario Argento
- Roman Polanski
- Wes Craven
Known Persons and Characters From Horror Movies
- Regan MacNeil – from The Exorcist
- Jaws
- Michael Myers – from the Halloween movies
- Freddy Krueger – from the Nightmare movies
- Jason Vorhees – from the Friday the 13th movies
- Ghostface – from the Scream movies
- Poltergeist – from the Poltergeist movies
- Dr. Mabuse – from the movie of the same name
- Hannibal Lecter – from the movie Silence of the Lambs
- Norman Bates – from the movie Psycho
- Chucky, the murder doll
- Boogeyman – from the Boogeyman movies
- Leatherface – from the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Mummy – from the Mummy movies
- The Thing from the Swamp – Predator
- Jigsaw – from the Saw movies
- Gremlin – from the Gremlin movies
- Godzilla – from the Godzilla movies
- Annie Wilkes – from the movie Misery
- Killer Tomato – from the Killer Tomato movies
- Bad Santa – from the movies Santa Slay – Bloody Christmas, Bad Christmas etc.
- T-Rex – from the movie Jurrassic Park
- Xenomorph – from the Alien movies
- Jack Torrance – from The Shining
- Capitain Spaulding – from the movie House of 100 Corpses
- Sadako Yamamura – from the Japanese The Ring movies
- Smiley – from the movie Smiley – Horror Wears a Smile
- Killer Clown – from the movie Space Invaders
- Piranhaconda – from the movie Pirahacondas
- Caligari – from the movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Nosferatu – from the movie Nosferatu
- Rocketworm – from the Rocketworm movies
- Beetlejuice – from the movie Beetlejuice
- Dr. Fu Man Chu – from the fim I, Dr. Fu Man Chu
- Damien – from the Omen movies
- Pennywise – from Stephen King’s movie It
- Pinhead – from the Hellraiser movies
- Negan – from the series the Walking Dead
- Lucille – manslayer from the series the walking Dead
- Rosemary’s Baby – from the movie of the same name
- Bob – from the cult series Twin Peaks
What other characters can you think of for a horror Who Am I game?
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