How this quiz works
It's a personality quiz in Halloween fancy dress. It isn't trying to find out whether you're dangerous, it looks at very ordinary character traits, charm, patience, solitude, a taste for riddles, the need to control everything, through Halloween night situations. And it blows them up into caricature.
The questions are scenes. For example: 'A detective knocks on your door and asks questions about the neighbourhood.' or 'The cemetery, at midnight, on a dare.'. Each answer weighs on one or two of the quiz's eight portraits, and the portrait with the most points wins.
Solo, you answer the fifteen questions and discover your portrait, with the three traits that stand out most in your answers. As a couple, the first player answers the whole series, passes the phone, and the second answers in turn without seeing the first one's answers. Both portraits then show up side by side, with the number of identical answers.
If you're not in the same place, remote mode lets you each answer on your own phone: one person creates the game, the other joins with the code, and you see both answers after each question.
The quiz's eight portraits
We took the best-known serial killers, the ones everyone has heard of in a documentary or a series, and kept for each the character trait people remember them for. That trait, and nothing else, is what the quiz measures.
Playing it as a couple, on Halloween night
This quiz works really well as a couple, precisely because nobody is flattered by their result. You laugh at your own portrait, you recognise the other person in theirs, and you end up telling each other why you answered that to the detective question or the cemetery one.
If you want to stay in the mood, the other Halloween quizzes are made to be chained: find out which of you dies first in a horror movie, who could get possessed, or which supervillain is hiding in each of you. They all play the same way, solo or as a couple.
And for an evening that isn't all about monsters, our “would you rather” dilemmas take over nicely once the candy is gone.
What this quiz is not
It's not a psychological test, and even less a diagnosis. The people named had real victims, and we don't forget that: the quiz only takes one character trait from each of them, the one the public remembers, and pushes it to the point of ridicule. If you land on Ted Bundy, it means you're comfortable with people. Nothing more.
The result says nothing about your relationship either. Two different portraits means two different characters, and that's the case for most couples. If you want a real test as a couple, our couple test compares your answers on what really matters.
Your answers aren't saved. The quiz only keeps the portrait obtained, with no first name or answers, to display one day how the portraits are distributed on the page.
