The 2026 Halloween Candy Challenge
Wes's Halloween Candy Research Lab
Count your haul by size, fill in the tally worksheet, and email a photo or scan. Every trick-or-treater, from anywhere, counts.
Look back · Halloween 2025
What last year's haul told us
Every candy line recorded on last year's worksheets, for 6 trick-or-treaters on two streets. Kids appear only as anonymous IDs.
2025 recorded tally — 203 pieces; completeness unverified
Top candies
44 different candies · tap a bar for details
Tap a candy to see which sizes it came in, who collected it and on which street.
The Leitch Street run produced about twice the pieces per hour of the Orchard Street group.
Orchard Street offered the broadest variety; Leitch gave fewer types but more of each.
Fun-size was the most common size (about 40% of pieces), but full-size bars were the best finds.
Chocolate ruled. Twix, Hershey's and Reese's topped the lists; fruity candy came second.
Start on Leitch Street for quick chocolate wins, then move to Orchard for variety.
Privacy: only aggregated results are shared. Small groups are never reported, and email addresses kept for results are deleted once results are sent.