Oh, My Dots! has a dedicated Halloween Special page (ohmydots.com/games/halloween-special) with a real lineup behind it: 24 Halloween-themed puzzles across connect the dots, mazes, jigsaws, a word search, and a crossword. All of it is free, needs no sign-up, and prints.
Catch the skeleton
The centerpiece is the pumpkin connect the dots games (a classic jack-o’-lantern and a “Smiley Pumpkin”), and they’re not a “click the dots in order and watch a picture appear” puzzle. They’re animated: a skeleton pops up out of the pumpkin holding the next number, and the player has to click or tap it before it ducks back down and hides. Miss it, and it’ll pop up again, but the fun is in catching it quickly, not just clicking wherever the next number happens to be. It turns a normally calm, tracing-focused activity into a faster, reflex-driven game.
Printing it works a little differently, for an obvious reason: paper can’t animate. The printed version puts the numbers directly on the pumpkin itself, in place, so kids can still trace the same picture in the same order. They just don’t have to catch anything first. It’s the same puzzle, adapted to the medium rather than left out of the print pack.
The rest of the page
That’s just the start. The Halloween Special page also has:
- More connect the dots: a little witch, a happy witch, a vampire, a bat, a tarantula spider, a gruesome crow, a Halloween ghost, a cat carrying a Halloween basket, and a “Happy Halloween” piece, eleven pieces in all
- Seven mazes, each built on top of Halloween artwork instead of a plain grid: a jack-o’-lantern maze, a cute bat maze, a black cat, a second Halloween ghost, a cat witch guarding two pumpkins, a busy multi-character “HALLOWEEN!!!” scene, and a pumpkin scarecrow
- Four jigsaw puzzles: a scary pumpkin, an owl in a witch hat, a baby bat, and another “Happy Halloween” piece, each cut into a different shape (rectangles, triangles, or hexagons)
- A Halloween word search and a Halloween crossword, both ready-made and playable as-is
Every puzzle is filterable by difficulty (Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert), so the same page works for a preschooler and a fifth-grader.
The lineup isn’t fixed for the season either. Check back on the Halloween Special page throughout September and October: new Halloween-themed puzzles get added as the season goes on, so it’s worth another look even if you’ve already played through everything listed here.
Make more of your own with the site’s AI tools
Want more than what’s already on the page? Oh, My Dots! has a standalone Crossword Generator and Word Search Generator, built for any topic, not just Halloween.
Open either one, press “Generate with AI,” and type Halloween as the topic. In a few seconds you’ll have a full crossword or word search built around pumpkins, ghosts, witches, and more, ready to play online or print. Not happy with the result? Try a narrower topic, like “pumpkins” or “witches,” and generate again.
Print it
Every format on the Halloween Special page prints directly from the browser: the skeleton-catching pumpkin games (numbers included on the pumpkin, as described above), the other connect the dots pieces, the mazes, the jigsaws, the word search, and the crossword. Add anything you generate with the Crossword or Word Search Generator and you’ve got a full paper activity pack for a classroom or party. For classroom use, printed puzzles can include custom Name, Date, and Class header fields, so there’s no writing them in by hand on every copy.
Try it this week
Whether it’s five minutes of screen time before trick-or-treating or a stack of printables for a classroom party, start at the Halloween Special page and filter by difficulty to match the player. Want more? The Crossword Generator or Word Search Generator turns the single word “Halloween” into a printable puzzle in a couple of minutes.