# Halloween mini golf: Haunted Hollow

Every year from **25 to 31 October**, PUTTLE's free daily 3D mini-golf course moves to **Haunted Hollow** — slate islands under a harvest moon, jack-o'-lanterns on the rails, bats, and a witch crossing the sky. Play it at [https://puttle.golf](https://puttle.golf/) in any modern browser. Everyone on that date gets the same five spooky holes.

![A PUTTLE 3D hole in Haunted Hollow at night: a lantern-lit fairway between jack-o'-lanterns, gravestones, dead trees, a haunted house and a glowing green bog](https://puttle.golf/assets/shots/haunted.jpg)

## When to play

- **1–24 October:** the everyday worlds turn to fall — maples and gold cottonwoods, hay bales and scarecrows, geese heading south. Same holes, autumn colors.
- **1 October – 7 November:** random Haunted Hollow courses are in practice, on the 🌍 World Tour sheet. Each one plays one of the seven nights, and none of them touch your streak.
- **25–31 October:** every daily is a Haunted Hollow night, the same for every player on that date. In 2026 those are dailies #147 to #153.

## Seven nights, seven finales

Each date is the same night every year, with its own weather and a designed set piece on hole 5 (a par 5):

1. 🪦 **Graveyard Shift**, 25 October — finale: The Boneyard.
2. 🎃 **Pumpkin Patch**, 26 October — finale: The Great Pumpkin.
3. 🧹 **Witch's Wood**, 27 October — finale: Witch's Brew.
4. 🏚️ **Haunted Manor**, 28 October — finale: The Manor.
5. ⚰️ **Crypt Crawl**, 29 October — finale: The Catacombs.
6. 🦇 **Vampire's Castle**, 30 October, under a blood moon — finale: Castle Dracula.
7. 👻 **All Hallows' Eve**, 31 October — finale: Trick or Treat, with open graves, zombie hands and the spider on one hole.

What's on each finale, hole by hole: [PUTTLE worlds](https://puttle.golf/worlds).

## How to beat the Hollow

- 👻 **Phantom gates** are solid only while they glow, and they shiver just before they firm up. Go while they're faint.
- 🪦 **Open graves** open their slabs in a wave down the row. Roll over a slab while it's shut or round the open end of each grave — and never stop on one. A ball that drops in costs +1.
- 🧟 **Zombie hands** rise in staggered rows and stop a ball dead. Roll in just as a row sinks and keep pace with the wave.
- 🕷️ **The spider's drop** blocks the middle of the lane while it's down, and the cobwebs either side eat your pace. Time it to slip under while it's up.
- The classics wear costumes: pinball bumpers are jack-o'-lanterns, the spinner is a scarecrow, pegs are candles, a vortex is a cauldron, and the sand is cobwebs.

The timed ones make a sound before they move: slabs grind, hands groan, the spider skitters. Every obstacle in one place: [PUTTLE hazards](https://puttle.golf/hazards).

## Spooky, not scary

Haunted Hollow is cartoon Halloween — pumpkins, will-o'-wisps, a haunted house with a ghost circling it, and a music-box waltz with owls and crickets. No gore. The rules don't change: stroke play against par, rolling off an island is +1, and gems never change your card. It's free, there's no account, and a round takes a few minutes, so it suits a family Halloween too: [family mini golf](https://puttle.golf/family).

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