A popular Halloween riddle on the game of “hide-and-seek” (or “hide-and-go-seek”) is:
Q: What is a ghost’s favorite game?
A: Hide-and-ghost-seek.
Hide and Ghost Seek: A Hidden Picture Counting Book was a book published in 1992. “What is a ghoul’s favorite game? Hide-and-ghost-seek” was posted on Twitter on September 29, 2012.
“What is a ghost’s favorite party game?”/“Hide-and-go-shriek” is a related Halloween hide-and-seek joke.
Wikipedia: Hide-and-seek
Hide-and-seek (or hide-and-go-seek) is a popular children’s game in which any number of players (ideally at least three) conceal themselves in the environment, to be found by one or more seekers. The game is played by one player chosen (designated as being “it”) closing their eyes and counting to a predetermined number while the other players hide. After reaching this number, the player who is “it” calls “Ready or not, here I come!” and then attempts to locate all concealed players.
OCLC WorldCat record
Hide and ghost seek : a hidden picture counting book
Author: Carol Thompson; Margaret A Hartelius
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, ©1992.
Series: Reading railroad books.
Edition/Format: Print book : Fiction : Primary school : English
Summary:
Count to 20, or even 150, while searching out the ghosts hidden throughout the town, from ghoul school to monster market.
Twitter
All Joked Up
@AllJokedUp
What is a ghoul’s favorite game?
Hide-and-ghost-seek.
6:32 PM - 25 Sep 2012
October 2012, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 63:
Everett: What’s a ghoul’s favorite game?
Francisco: What?
Everett: Hide-and-ghost-seek.
Everett Costello, Tequesta, Fla.
Twitter
Autumn Reed
@_autumnleigh
What’s a ghost’s favorite game..?
Hide-and-“ghost”-seek! 😂👻
11:26 PM - 29 Oct 2012
Google Books
Scooby-Doo Monster Jokes
By Michael Dahl
North Mankato, MN: Stone Arch Books
2015
Pg. 20:
What’s a phantom’s favorite game?
Hide-and-ghost-seek!
Google Books
Lola Levine and the Halloween Scream
By Monica Brown
New York, NY: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers,
2017
Pg. ?:
“What’s the best game to play on Halloween?”
“I don’t know, Ben,” I say. “Tell me.”
“Hide-and-ghost-seek!”
Twitter
hungryhouse.co.uk
@hungryhouse
Replying to @LucylouB
What’s a ghoul’s favorite game on Halloween? ... Hide-and-ghost-seek.
8:41 AM - 31 Oct 2017
Twitter
Shuttle-UM
@Shuttle_UM
Q: What is a Ghost’s favorite game?
A: Hide-and-ghost-seek
10:30 AM - 31 Oct 2017
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