Serious question, I have no idea. Is there an established tradition, sequence of events, rule?
I just asked some kids, and they said they’d come later and secretly do some trick on me, but they didn’t seem too sure about it either.
This in Europe btw.
One year I learned it was a valid option, I prepared card tricks and wore a t-shirt that said “It’s OK to choose trick” or something like that, and not one person chose trick. I remember being vaguely disappointed.
It’s not the kids who choose. They say “trick or treat” because if you don’t give them a treat, they will trick you. By vandalizing your house. That’s the tradition.
I agree historically but now it’s more of a question to the person in the house.
Some people do haunted houses “grapes are eyeballs type stuff” or maybe they jump out of the bush and scare you.
So it’s still a question of “will it be a trick or a treat “ just with a different meaning.
But you are historically correct (the second best kind of correct with “technically correct” being 1)
The trick is property damage…
It doesn’t have to be.