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At the center of every treasure hunt are the clues themselves. The treasure hunt clues might be about how to get to the next location or describing something to find.
Getting the clues wrong will ruin the treasure hunt. Care must be taken to match the clues to the audience. You do know who your audience is, don’t you?
If you are aiming the hunt a kids know the age ranges involved. Just like good kids movies the clues can have two levels one for adults and one for kids. You might have two sets of clues or make sure that the what you are trying to find is fun for the kids once the adult has located the clue location. Lots of chance to mix it up a bit.
There are four main types of clue
1. Hunt long clues – where you don’t give a location but it is found somewhere on the route. Examples of these might be shopping lists where you have to return with certain items or letter and number patterns like find SMC – what is happening today at 11:00pm. Where SMC might be St Mary’s Church.
2. Navigation clues – These are clue to move the person from one location to another. Even with a map you can direct people quickly off the route down a side alley for example. Advanced treasure hunts may have a series of clues that map out the course which you need to figure out before you start.
3. Location clues – These are things to find. You might use a cryptic clue to indicate the place and the detail you want collected. It might be a picture which a question that can be solved when you locate where the picture was taken from.
4. Prove you were there clues – This could be take a picture at a location with all the people on the team in it. Stops people not completing the course.
Have fun with your clues but make sure that you test them with someone else before letting people take the treasure hunt. Give people ways to get back on track if needed. Maps, emergency envelopes, contact numbers all help to make the treasure hunt fun.
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Scavenger hunt ideas seem hard to find under pressure. With a little bit of guidance creating a good list of object to collect is not too difficult. Creating any old list is easy but create a clever list requires a few tricks. Here are a few ideas.
The list itself can have a theme. For example it can be based on a location, time of year or a colour. Locations such as the mall, a historical location, all around town or a neighbourhood. Holidays such as Xmas or Halloween provide a great theme for your list. Colours are really useful too. Take an old list and make it harder by asking for everything to be in one colour.
One common list tactic is to create an A-Z list. So the first item begins with A etc. You still need to create a list but it at least helps your thought process in creating the list.
Alternatively, you can do clever things with the individual items. Ask for two objects that have contrasting properties such as one hard and one soft. Combined properties for one object is another object – Try find something that is both blue and white or both soft and rough at the same time.
Lots of fun to be had with your scavenger hunt. Any ideas you want to share? We would love to hear them below.
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The thrill of the scavenger hunt is the solving the puzzles and riddles along the way. For the organiser it is difficult not to run out of creativity half way through creating your hunt.
Stop for a minute there are so many places to get inspiration. Why not try some different scavenger hunt clues types?
First take a look for crossword clues for the right age group. There are a lot of riddle and puzzle ideas available online. In fact there are also crossword creating software a lot of which are free. Create a complete crossword and take the best and most usable clues. Visit edhelper.com for some great resources.
Riddles are the star performing clues in a scavenger hunts. The excitement of solving one is amazing. Creating riddles need not be difficult. Write out all the main things you might use to describe the object or location of your clue. Then think about words that might be able to swapped for some of these descriptions. Do any of the words rhyme or nearly rhyme? Do any of the words go together in a funny way? For example river beds and sleeping.
Alternatively start with a long description and remove and obscure facts in the description.
To make it even easier there are fairly cheap software programmes that you can buy which contain 1000’s of riddle ideas for objects ago the house.
Other scavenger hunt clue types include substituting pictures for words or the more detailed word clues like Rebus Puzzles.
Cryptograms are a great clue type using numbers instead of letters. You need to either mention that a=1 b=2 or for older kids give then an example bed= 3,6,5.
Close up photos can be easy, alternatively you can zoom in to make it harder. Another twist is to cut up the picture into pieces to make a puzzle.
How about a musical or sound effects clue?
Part two of this article will have even more ideas for scavenger hunt clues.
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Photos make some of the best treasure hunt clues. One of my favourite ideas is using close up photos of objects to find. Below are show examples for you to try your hand at.
The picture clues work best when they are pictures of things that are known to the hunters. However for older kids and adults you can make it harder by using similar pictures from photo libraries rather than the nearby object. You can also make the clues harder by zooming in more. Young children need these types of clues to be really obvious.
Another trick to increase the difficulty of the clue is to change the angle on the photo using a photo editing program. You can also use the editing program to add some effects to disguise the object further for example making it into a photographic negative.
Have fun with photo treasure hunt clues.
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Depending on the age of your treasure hunt participants there so many different types of prize or reward you can give during your treasure/scavenger hunts.
Obviously if you are following a theme such as a pirate treasure hunt you want to stick to prizes in the theme. So maybe chocolate gold coins along the way, with a big prize in a cardboard box made to look like a treasure chest.
If you are running a scavenger type hunt then you can give out small prizes (to share) along the way. Give out bags for collecting the prizes (borrow some pick and mix bags from your local store).
To protect the prizes you may want to hide then inside old toilet roll centres. Wrapping in tissue paper can be useful.
Apart from the obvious sweets, which can be wrapped in kitchen plastic bags, visit the local craft shop which often have interesting small items that make great prizes.
Another strategy is to have one big prize with clues to be found that map out a path to the goal. Include on the clues hints to the big prize. Get them guessing and build up the excitement.
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Don’t forget that clues for treasure hunts are not just about finding something or solving a riddle. One of the best clue types is the location clue.
A location clue describes or directs your hunters to the location of the next clue. A location clue can be make from a riddle, a diagram, puzzle just like the normal clue types.
Diagrams are great for this. The simple version is just an X marks the spot on a map. You can make it harder by not giving north or drawing the diagram roughly. Another trick is to give an easy to find starting point and use the pirate method. Turn north take 10 steps. Turn east and go to the end of the road facing you, etc.
In car based treasure hunts location clues come in several types. The most popular being the tulip. If you imagine describing a road junction as follows. The bulb of the tulip at the bottom of the diagram represents the road you enter on.
The leaves of the tulip represent the roads out. One leaf has an arrowhead to show the direction you leave on.
So take the right fork would be a two leaf tulip with the right one with an arrowhead. Go left at a crossroads would be a three leaf tulip with the leftmost leaf having the arrowhead.
All the tulips are turned so the bulb is at the bottom to make it harder.
Why try using location clues on your next treasure hunt as a new treasure hunt clue type.
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A lot of people have the image of treasure hunts as something from the
movies where spectacle wearing old men dash through old tombs avoid
traps. Maybe you have experienced a kids treasure hunt with a bland
piece of paper instructing you to collect bits and pieces from around
the house and garden. But there is another kind of treasure hunt, that
you can do – the car treasure hunt.
The Car Treasure Hunt is a much more advanced hunt and requires a bit
more planning on behalf of the organiser. The first car treasure hunt I
came across was run by the university auto sports club. It had quite a
large following each week.
The start of the car treasure hunt is obviously the planning that goes
on ahead of time. From a participants point of view, it all starts by
being given a clue sheet. Working with a recommended map with enough
road detail you start to unravel the hunt.
Using the map the first part of the task is to work out the road. Often
the route is not given to you instead you have to work it out. Instead
you are given clues to the route which are often based on the shapes of
the route junctions. So for example you might be given a series of
tulips. Each tulip is a small diagram of each junction, but all the
drawings are turned so that you enter the bottom of the diagram and
leave either left, right or at the top of the diagram. For example take
the right fork might be described as a tulip bulb (where you come from)
with two curved (leaf like) lines. The right line will have an
arrowhead to indicate the place to exit. In a four way junction there
would be three leaves indicating left, middle and right.
By stretch out the junctions into a series of tulips you can describe the path you need to go.
There are lots of variations of this method. So instead of tulips you
might have clock times, where the hour hand would be the exit point and
the minute hand the entry point. This then gives you the shape of the
junction without the detail of the number of roads. The clocks might be
drawn or written in number form to add another level of difficulty.
Added to the description of the route are the clues that you need to
find along the way, this is just like a normal treasure hunt. These
clues would be either in between junction descriptions to show where
the answer can be found or marked with letters to indicate the position.
Car treasure hunts can be a lot of fun and it all starts with a good set of treasure hunt clues.
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