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Ideas, guides, and tips for creating treasure hunts people actually remember.
How to run a campus scavenger hunt for orientation
A working plan for a college or university orientation scavenger hunt: group size, how many stops, how to keep 400 students from crowding one building, QR codes indoors, an opening time, a test walk, and what to report afterwards.
40 college scavenger hunt clues for the buildings most campuses have
Original campus scavenger hunt clues for orientation, grouped by ten places most campuses have some version of, with the answer or the task for each, and how to turn the list into a hunt.
QR code review game: a scavenger hunt that checks the answers
A one-lesson review scavenger hunt for middle and high school: eight questions behind printed QR codes, teams of three or four, the phone checks every answer, and you go through the results with the class at the end.
Holiday QR code scavenger hunt for your classroom
Sixteen original winter and holiday clues for an indoor scavenger hunt in the last week before the winter break, grouped by room, with the answers, and how to turn them into QR code stops.
A city scavenger hunt for adults that does not feel childish
How to write a city hunt for a group of adults: riddles about real streets and buildings, photo challenges with a tone brief, an evening route through the old town, and a finish where the night carries on.
How to run multiple teams without crowding the same stop
Thirty people in five teams on one route means a queue at every stop. The three ways to fix it, in order of effort, and what the points and the leaderboard actually decide.
How to plan a park birthday scavenger hunt for kids
A planning guide for a park birthday hunt: how much of the park to use, how many stops fit in an hour, what clues work for eight to ten year olds, and where the supervising adults stand.
How to make a QR code scavenger hunt for your classroom
Two ways to run a QR code scavenger hunt at school: the by-hand method with a QR generator, and the faster one where the codes and the answer checking come with the hunt.
31 school scavenger hunt clues you can use tomorrow
Ready to use scavenger hunt clues for around a school: the classroom, the corridor, the library, the canteen and the playground, plus how to run it without losing anyone.