About The Closest Ghost
The Closest Ghost is a two-player game by Andrew Looney, illustrated by Trin Hess, and the Looney Labs Holiday Gift for 2019. You and a friend are exploring a haunted house on Halloween when a ghost pops up and you both drop your trick-or-treat bags. The first to pick their candy back up wins, and the candy on the board is real.
Andrew Looney made it after a design challenge from candy-maker Greg Cohen of Lofty Pursuits. It was designed for Pyramid Arcade, but the household version needs only tokens, bottle-cap rings and sweets. It makes a good Halloween game for a parent and child, or two friends.
How to play in one minute
- Put the two boards side by side. Place the avatars on the two centre squares and a piece of candy on every other square.
- Put two ghosts on the squares with corner dots. Whoever most recently offered candy goes first; the other player places the third ghost.
- On your turn, move your avatar one space in a direction shown by an arrow (arrows off the edge wrap around). Pick up any candy you land on.
- Then move the ghost closest to your avatar one space in any direction. Ghosts and avatars cannot share a space.
- The first player to clear all the candy from their starting board wins.
What’s in the PDF
- Rulesheet: 1 colour page.
- Game boards: 1 colour page, US Letter, with both boards. Looney Labs recommends card stock.
- A separate one-page rulesheet for owners of Pyramid Arcade.
In the PDF
- rulesheet
- 2 game boards
- Pyramid Arcade rulesheet (alternative version)
