Treasure Hunt Game Tips

Map Out Your Treasure Hunt

• When creating your treasure hunt, determine where you will place your clues ahead of time. To do this, create a map of the treasure hunt area and label where the clues will be hidden in numerical order.

Create Your Clues

• Create the clues on a piece of paper before placing them in the hiding locations. This way you can review the clues and make sure they make sense. By creating the clues before hiding them, you can make sure that they make sense. Clues can be different types of tasks such as unscrambling letters, anagram puzzles, and other challenges to test the intellectual ability of the teams.

Walk Through The Clues

• Before hiding the clues, do the treasure hunt following the clues that you have created. This will help you determine if the clues are easy to follow for the players that will be participating in the treasure hunt game.

Hiding The Clues

• To hide the clues, you want to have one clue for each team at each of the clue locations. Placing the clues in colored eggs, using one color for each team will allow the teams to identify their own clues at each location.

Include Decisions

• Allow your guests to each choose her own path on the treasure hunt. Have points awarded for finding each clue on the treasure hunt. At some locations, give the team members a choice between solving an easy clue for a low point value, and doing a more complicated challenge to find a clue in a harder to find location for a higher point value.

Set A Time Limit

• Instead of waiting for one team to find the final prize, set a time limit. By assigning points to each clue, teams compete to get the most points by completing the challenges to find the next clue within the time period. If the team arrives late, assign a one point penalty for each minute they are late arriving back to the meeting location. This will limit the chances for teams to try for additional points after the time ends.