Treasure Hunt Ideas With Technology

Internet Scavenger Hunts

• If you prefer to build a technology treasure hunt solely online, several games are available, and some of them are also suitable for children. GoldRush.com features an online treasure hunt where visitors can run the game by answering a series of questions and move around the game course. At MuseumMania.com hunters can choose from a variety of treasure hunt games and complete the hunt completing online by doing research and reading for clues from linked websites.

Technology Infused Hunt

• For an interactive alternative, use technology in a traditional treasure hunt. Choose to either use technology exclusively or intersperse it in your hunt by setting up the clues that can be found using technology. Send all players a text message that directs them to one location. Once they get to that location, perhaps a computer, ask them to log on to a website or check an email for the next clue. Even setting up calculators, sending voicemails to cell phones and watching a video are ways to include technology in your treasure hunt. Additionally, some of the treasures can all have a technology theme, such as gift cards to electronics stores and technology gadgets such as iPods and GPS systems as grand prizes.

Geocaching

• For the serious treasure hunters, assign teams to go out on a search for items by geocaching. Geocaching is the process of using GPS systems to locate items planted in a hunt location. Locations vary depending on the group and teams involved; however, wooded areas, nature parks and even urban environments are typical locations for containers of clues and treasures. Geocaching.com is an online geocaching resource center that allows you to locate an active geocache of more than a million sites worldwide. The site also offers a tracking feature so that you can check online to advance in the hunt.