Jack-o'-lanterns, like pets, sit on the front stoop, delight neighborhood kids, and often look adorable when doubling as heads for headless horsemen. Domesticate a pumpkin with today’s Groupon to Jumbo’s Pumpkin Patch in Middletown, Maryland. Choose between two options:

• For $10, you get two Pirate Cove corn maze tickets (a $10 value), plus two, $5 pumpkin gift credits (a $20 total value).
• For $20, you get four maze tickets (a $20 value), plus four, $5 pumpkin gift credits (a $40 total value).

Perched on 131 acres of the Homestead Farm, Jumbo’s Pumpkin Patch buzzes with a bevy of fall activities, including hayrides, a live petting zoo, pony rides, and the Pirate Cove corn maze. Visitors can spend time swashbuckling through the swarthy fields of the Pirate Cove corn maze—a sprawling 14-acre labyrinth that forms a skull and crossbones—before making their way into the pumpkin patch that showcases hundreds of wild jack-o'-lanterns-to-be. Sipping on cups of hot cider, autumn revelers sneak up on unsuspecting pumpkins to pluck them from their vines or delicately adorn their backs with smash me signs ($0.50–$15/pumpkin). Each gift credit may be applied toward the purchase of a carvable fall fruit, which may be turned into the fright-inducing likeness of a ghoul or Howard Taft.