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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