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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- Great introduction to photo scavenger hunts. Nice quick read.

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- Great scavenger hunt ideas listing going from A to Z – object ideas but the concept of an A to Z list is a nice touch.

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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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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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