Knowing Your Future: Fortune Telling Party Games

One of the most common interests of young people from days gone past was knowing the fate of their love life. In fact, these divinations played such an important role on All Hallows Eve, that I was totally amazed at the number of creative ways they had developed for learning who their future mate may be, and whether the match would work out or not.

Materials Needed:

1 pink candle, 1 green candle and 1 orange candle
Blindfold

Instructions:

1. Place the 3 candles in a row on a table and light them. Leave a fair amount of space between each one.

2. Blindfold the player.

This is one of the most popular games to play on Halloween. This version explains that once you succeeded in grabbing the apple with your teeth, you wait until midnight to eat it, therefore ensuring good luck.

However, not so long ago, apples were used by many young lovers to find out who their future husband or wife would be. In fact, there were so many ways to use apples for divination, I couldn't include them all on this one page, so I've put together a separate article explaining these

Telling fortunes using cards has been in practice for hundreds of years. Tarot cards, oracle cards, or regular playing cards can be used. The hardest part is learning to read the cards and understand their meanings.

However, as this fortune telling party is just a fun event for Halloween, you don't need to go to that extreme. If you're interested, you may wish to pick up a book on how to read tarot cards or how to tell fortunes with playing cards and practice. Otherwise, you could just head over to your local library or do a search on the Internet to get the basics.