Halloween Costume Contest: Entries Now Open!

Happy almost October! Jellyneo's Twentieth Annual Halloween Costume Contest is now open for entries! We wanted to give you plenty of time to prepare your costumes, so you have from now until October 7th at 11:59PM NST to submit your pet dressed up for Halloween.

We have no limit on the number of entries we will accept into round one, so we will be accepting as many entries as we can for round one of voting. (Barring any rules violations of course, and we also won't be accepting 10 vampires, so be creative!) 75 of the top rated pets from round one will move on to round two, and from there the top 30 will compete for a gold trophy.

For a full list of rules and dates, please see our Costume Contest page. And then start dressing up your pet! (We've made a few rules changes and clarifications from last year.)

As a warning to everyone planning on submitting: like we said above, we will only be accepting, at the most, 1-2 variations of a particular costume. If you'd like a better chance of getting in, make a unique, but still recognizable, costume! Venturing off the "beaten path" has worked well in past contests—think Neopian characters, pop culture references, and more.

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(Before submitting, be sure to check out the rules!)

Let's goooo!! Please tell me the staff contest is coming back too, that was fun. Also, 20th contest already??

by bonju on September 23, 2026 9:02 AM NST

Regarding the "rule changes" mentioned above, here's a change log of what's different:

- In general, cleaned up the language and made things a little more consistently worded.

- Added: The costume, particularly your description of the costume, must be appropriate for the Neoboards and follow all Neopets rules.

- Added: By extension, this also means no Pet Styles or full-body overlays (like Black Kadoatie Wearable or Summer Fun Usuki Wearable) are allowed.

- Added: If you enter a basic costume (like "Ghost" or "Jhudora"), it may be rejected if we've already received too many similar entries.

- Reworked rules around copying past winners: (a) if your pet won before, you cannot use the same costume, and (b) in regards to all past winners, you may not mimic the costumes of last year's top 3 winners.

- Added: new "Entry Suggestions" section to give some tips on what we've seen do well (and not well) in the past 19 contests.

We have also implemented a brand new basic rules check at time of entry that will tell you immediately if your Neopets' costume is breaking any of our basic rules, like >5 NC items, not enough NP items, or has a Pet Style applied. We're hoping this immediate feedback will be better than waiting for one of our staff members to manually have to reject your entry.

Very excited to see what you all come up with this year! May the best costume win!

by dave on September 23, 2026 9:06 AM NST JN Staff

Oops! Your entry appears to break a few of our contest rules:
More than 5 Neocash items are not allowed.

Pretty sure my pet is only wearing 5 NC items