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Treasure Hunt Clues

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If you're new here, you may want help creating your hunt. It can be a real struggle. Make it easy with Riddle Me - simple pick an object and riddle me will come up with a riddle for you. Find out more about Riddle Me Here. Alternatively *** TRY OUR NEW RIDDLE/CLUE FINDER ***

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. But if the clues are to easy it will be even easier than free bingo to succeed and wont be challenging enough. 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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Riddle Me Review

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Want to run a

Treasure/Scavenger Hunt

Just haven’t got the time or inspiration needed?

We put the Riddle Me software to the test to see if it has the answers.

Imagine it’s the day before your child’s birthday. You’ve promised a treasure hunt. You’ve got nothing prepared.

You switch on your computer. Fire up the Riddle Me software. Select twelve objects from around 400 in the database. Select the average age level. Pick a final object. Click on print and you have all you need for a treasure hunt printed out, Riddles and even party invites. All sorted in 15 to 30 mins, the first time and a lot less the next time you do it.

You’ve planned an indoor & outdoor hunt but the weather forecast is worrying. You remove six outdoor objects and add new indoor ones and reprint. Took less than five minutes to have a plan B.

Setting up a hunt in the Software

The Riddle Me software produces riddles for ages 3 to adult. It has over 5000 riddles for its 400 object database. For example for cup, a basic riddle would be “This is what you drink liquid out of”, next step up might be “Plastic or Glass, I hold your drink, to wash me out you use the sink” at a final level you would have “I can be tall or small, I can have handles or not, I am cleaned by the dishwasher, and can keep your drink hot.”

Want to add your own riddles?

You can do this too.

Typically Riddle me creates object finding hunts but has options for digital photo hunts, home safety hunts or nature hunts. A nice added bonus was the travel bingo sheet printer for quick in-car games.

Need a theme?

By altering the automatic object selection, it is easy to create a themed hunt, for say easter. One of the 55 graphical backgrounds can be added to match the theme.

In Control or Automatic?

While the software does a lot for you. You always feel in control as you can preview the riddles before printing. If you find a riddle to hard then pick one of the other  riddles for the same object.

One final feature, I loved was the thank you card printer. It makes saying thank you from your child so much simpler.

The riddle me software comes with a 60 day Money Back Guarantee and is well worth a try. Never be short of a game to keep the kids amused.

You can find out more about the Riddle Me Software on their website www.riddleme.net where you can see a video demonstrating the software in more detail.

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Scavenger Hunt Ideas

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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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