The Haunted House in Poptropica is a great mini-quest that is only available for a limited time in the popular online game. It was launched in early October, 2009 to celebrate Halloween. In this cool mini-quest, you must enter a haunted house and locate six items while overcoming obstacles and solving puzzles along the way. At the end, if you are successful in getting all of the items, you will gain entry to a fun Halloween themed party.
The first thing to do is to go to the Haunted House mini-mission. You get there by clicking on the promo in the lower-left corner of the Poptropica map. You will arrive by popping up out of the ground into a very strange and scary graveyard. You can click on the gravestones to see funny little messages about how the people there died, but the first thing you want to do for this mission is to get inside the haunted house. The house is to the left of the graveyard, but in order to get inside you need to get the key to the cellar door. There is a bat flying around and he is holding the key. To get the key from him, you need to catch him. Once you do, you have the key and then you can click on the cellar door to get inside.
Inside the cellar you’ll see a furnace, a boiler, and a bunch of disconnected pipes between them. To solve this puzzle, rotate the pipe pieces by clicking on them until they connect the boiler to the furnace. When this happens, the boiler will turn on and start shooting steam up into the air. Now, jump up into the steam and it will launch you high in the air up to a small platform where you’ll find a red bottle of Draught of the Dead. This is the next item you need so pick it up.
Now you’ll want to head inside the house to get the only items. The inside of the house is really spooky! There are a few things you need to get in here. The first is some ice cubes. Open the refrigerator to get the ice but you’ll see you need something to chip it out. Head upstairs to where you see the two knight statues. Jump on the head of the one holding the big pickaxe and it will drop it. Then pick it up and take it back to the refrigirator to get the ice.
Next you want to get the lantern. Go all the way upstairs to the bedroom and click on the clocks on the mantle. The way to solve this puzzle is to get both clocks to strike midnight at the same time. If you put your cursor over one clock it starts to spin a little faster. This is how you can get them to catch up to each other. When you get this puzzle done, you’ll get the lantern.
Next you need to get into the attic. But the trick to getting there is to find something that lets you fly. This is the broom in the painting of the witch. Here’s what you do. Run over and click on the spider on the floor in the hall to get it to drop down. It will scare the witch in the painting and she will drop her broom. Now go stand on the broom and you can fly. Use it to go up into the attic and then go all the way to the left. You’ll see a chest. Click on it and you’ll do a sliding puzzle. This is really easy to solve if you pay close attention because all you need to do is the same moves you see but in reverse order. When you get the slider puzzle picture of the skull back into place you’ll get the chalice.
Now go back downstairs and talk to the ghost cat you see. He will tell you to light the lanterns. Go into the cellar and find the barrel of kerosene. Click on it to light the lantern and then return to the cat. Then he’ll tell you to bring all the treasures to where the cherub cries. He is talking about the statue of the crying angel outside in the graveyard. Go there and click on the hole in the ground that appeared next to this statue. You’ll arrive at a Halloween party and it looks like they’ve been waiting for you!
Once you arrive at the party, they will tell you they’ve been waiting for you and you’ll get a reward of fifty Poptropica credits for finishing this mini-mission. You’ll also see a lot of great costumes at the party that you can copy using the Poptropica Costumizer. The costumes include mummies, a witch, Death, a vampire, and a scarecrow. It’s a great place to find lots of fun for Halloween on Poptropica.
