The game is an improvisation on the game of bobbing for apples to keep
your guests dry by hanging the apples using a string or twine from the
ceiling. Contestants have to jump and retrieve the apple with their
hands tied behind their backs. To make it more challenging, slit the
apple side and push a dime through it. Hang the apple at a height of
your guests' mouth (approximately) by string from the ceiling. It is fun
to see kids or adults trying to bite the dime from the apple without
using hands. Traditional Halloween souvenirs or prizes would include
emery silk cushions in shapes of tomatoes, radishes, apples, pears and
pickles. Other idea would be to give out pen-wipers in shapes of brooms,
bats, cats and witches. A Harry Potter book for kids would be naturally
the most treasured prize today.
It is an appropriate game for a bunch of kids or an active group of
people who are still young at heart. You can make the game more
challenging by combining it with other games such as sack race or
three-legged race. For the sack race snapping version, tell all your
guests to climb in a sack and tie the sack at their chests well using a
string. Now their hands are tied behind their backs. They have to reach
the apples first and then snap them off the twine and come back to the
starting line. The one who comes first is the winner. The three-legged
snapping version is team work of two people where one leg each of two
persons are tied together and they have to race together to reach the
apples and snap them off the string. Hold a midnight feast to eat the
apples for good luck.
