Play Ghost Hunt seated or on foot
Meet virtual ghosts, solve a matching puzzle and collect with your family.
Play opens October 30 at 6 AM. Eligible ghost rounds earn full points from then until October 31 at 9 PM. Points earned before 5 PM on Halloween wait until the leaderboard opens. All times are Arlington local time.
- Choose a ghost to open its matching puzzle.
- Choose another hunt mode here.
- Open Play and choose Play Ghost Hunt.The hunt mode choices appear.
- Choose Play seated or Explore on foot.A garden or walking map opens.
- Choose an available ghost.Its three-pair matching puzzle opens.
- Match all three pairs.The ghost is ready to join your collection.
- Choose Add your ghost.The collection and any confirmed reward update.
Compare the modes#
| Mode | How to find ghosts | Participation points |
|---|---|---|
| Seated | Choose the six garden ghosts. No walking location is needed. | 2 per eligible named ghost, once each. |
| Walking | Walk toward virtual sidewalk ghosts north or south of Harris. Allow precise location. | 8 per eligible ghost in each walking area, once each. |
| Golden walking ghost | Accumulate about half a mile of checked walking with Start Walk. | 8 for the eligible golden round, once. |
The walking hunt has six named ghosts north of Harris and six south. Move safely near a ghost and stop before opening its puzzle. A fresh, accurate location near the public sidewalk spot is needed for walking points. Show me a hint lights a broad search area briefly; it becomes available again after a pause. Show only games hides home markers. Change mode returns to the mode choices. These controls earn 0 points.
Completing the named collection adds no separate points bonus. The golden walking round is worth 8 points. To earn it, use Start Walk between 5 and 9 PM on Halloween and accumulate about 800 meters of checked distance.
Collect together#
In Play as a family, choose Start a family team. Enter Your game name and send or copy the private team code to family. Another player enters a game name and Team code, then chooses Join team. Refresh team collection updates the shared collection. This team shares game names and collected ghosts; it does not share home-management access or combine voting identities. Each person still earns only their own eligible completed rounds.
Keep meeting friends#
After the named collection, new ghost friends can fill your album. Their puzzles raise the Halloween game level and earn 0 participation points. A team-shared ghost appearing in your collection is not automatically a points award for every team member.
Your collected ghost appears and the site confirms any points it earned.