What Will Be The #1 Candy For “Trick or Treaters” This Year?
If you’re already plotting which candies you’ll “inspect for safety” (aka eat) from your kid’s Halloween haul, good news: the odds are in your favor. The sports betting site Action Network crunched the numbers to find which treats are most likely to show up in your little sugar zombie’s bucket this year.
They pulled stats from Instacart, DoorDash, and other candy sellers, and even factored in population density to estimate how many houses the average trick-or-treater will hit before collapsing in a chocolate coma.
Here are 10 popular Halloween candies and your odds of scoring at least one:
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups — 67% (If your kid doesn’t deliver at least one to your face, they’ve failed Halloween.)
- Peanut M&Ms — 65%
- Regular M&Ms — 62%
- Kit Kats — 60%
- Snickers — 58% (Because adults need “fun size” stress relief too.)
- Sour Patch Kids — 55%
- Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars — 50%
- Milky Way — 45%
- Twix — 33%
- Gummy Bears — 33%
But beware of the tricks among the treats: There’s a 2% chance of a toothbrush, a 4% chance of raisins, and a 23% chance of candy corn sneaking in there.
As for Texas, kids have about a 29% chance of ending up with candy corn—which means parents here will definitely be “helping” themselves to the Reese’s section instead.
Bottom line: your kid does the legwork, you get the Reese’s. It’s called a parent tax.
