Combination code stops shortcutting of treasure hunt game

I appreciate your service.

I had a New Year's Eve treasure hunt with about 50 young adults from church. Good times! It was a success! I tweaked the hunt so that it was 'global', so the teams were traveling to different world countries, and the challenges ranged from a basketball free-throw challenge (Lithuania) to a suduko challenge (Japan) to creating an encouraging note for our missionary friend in Africa (Tanzania).

An interesting thing happened at the end...one of the more enterprising guys figured out where the treasure map was hidden without having all the clue pieces (i.e., his team hadn't completed the last task, but he still figured out the clue). Thank goodness for the combination code...it saved me from having to make up rules on the spot. He couldn't take the map without having the combination code. As it turned out, another team won instead!

We had a good time...thank you for sharing your organizational skills with all of us!

PS: If I get some photos, I'll email them to you

Christine Brackett, California USA

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Planning for treasure hunt stations

Nikki

We are in Pacifica, California but I gather you are probably English by the sounds of the stations you suggest. We are both originally British but I have been in the states for 20 years. The party is April 18th so I'll let you know how it goes after.

The only station I have planned so far is Vallemar which used to be a station at the bottom of our road. We are going to ask history trivia about Pacifica... My sons class (9 yr olds) have been studying this in school lately.

The packet was very thorough and easy to read.

Gillian Pritchard, California USA

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Treasure Hunt for Seniors

Hi Nikki, I am excited about putting our 'Treasure Hunt' together. It looks like everything is well planned. Our date is Mar. 23, so I have time to get it all together. It will be done for a group of older people (60 plus in age). The train destination idea will work better for us.

I appreciate the fact that I'll be able to get back in touch with you with my questions as I work on our event.

Thank you.

Ginny Manganaro, Pennsylvania USA

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Disney Tickets are the Treasure

Hi Nikki,

I have just started to go through the manual. I'm not in a hurry. I plan to do the treasure hunt somewhere between now and the end of March.

I'm planning to do the treasure for my two boys because I have 2 tickets for Disneyland and I want to give the tickets to them in a special, fun way.

They don't know anything yet about the Disney trip. I would like to create special memories for the trip and I thought that including a treasure hunt to start with would be a good idea.

I will keep you updated on how it goes, I might have some questions for you though in the near future, I've never put a treasure hunt together before, but I do believe it will be a lot of fun for all of us....

Kind Regards,

Joke De Frenne, Idaho USA

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Extremely satisfied customer loves our superb customer service

Hi Nikki:

I found this and your other email this morning with the link to the download page in my junk folder :). And I also received an email from PayPal confirming the refund of one of the payment.

Add me to your list of extremely satisfied customer - though I have not yet read the information I purchased, simply because of your superb customer service. Thanks Nikki!

Brigitte

Brigitte Casemyr, Massachusetts USA

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So glad I purchased your treasure hunt

Everyone had a great time!! I am so glad I purchased your treasure hunt - I had looked at some other websites and books and they didn't compare to 'The Treasure Hunt Party Game.'

Thank you so much for helping me throw an incredible event.

Judith Block, California USA

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Soccer theme for treasure hunt

Thank you for all of the correspondence! I wanted something different for my daughter's 9th birthday. We will have a big crowd - 24 + adults for the treasure hunt. She is involved in soccer, school, church, neighborhood, etc. so I wanted to include everyone we could. Many thanks for all of your support thus far.

We will be having it at our local community center. So we have access to a large soccer field, playground, basketball and tennis courts. I thought of having the following stations (1) a mummy wrap - wrapping the tallest person in your group; (2) cheerleader stance and hold for 30 seconds, and then I haven't thought much more than that. I want the games to be fun and your suggestions help a lot! There will be a little age different, from 6 - 11 and we drew names for the different groups, so there is a variety in each group. We chose 5 groups - (1) strikers, (2) forwards, (3) mid-fielders, (4) defenders, and (5) goalies. Can you guess what our theme is?

Because of the large crowd we can't make the treasure too extravagant - we're still on a budget.

Many thanks again. Take care,

Mary Ellen Santerre, Texas USA

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Annual Scavenger Hunt for Dads and Kids

Thanks for all the emails and help. I am interested in your help and ideas. Our event is an annual event (which if all goes well I would like to make the scavenger hunt an annual part of it).

The name of our event is called 'Livin, Lovin, Luau'. It is a luau for Dads and kids ages 0-6 years. We host it at our local YMCA. We are confined to one large gym. My idea was to have all the dad/kid teams who wanted to participate follow a series of clues that would lead them from one station to another throughout the room. Some of the stations or games that we will have are: Play dough station, Coconut Bowling, Crazy Totem Poles, Fish craft, Infant Island (area for small child and infants to explore), coloring station, Photo station (we always take a picture of each child/ren with their dad to take home), Pin the Tail on the fish, Ring toss, Snack area, Fish Flying, Limbo, Shave your dad, Fishing game, Reading area, Pin the Banana on the tree, Hanging Monkeys.

I am sure I can come up with a great hunt. The last item would be at the area where the dad fills out an evaluation of the event and the child gets a special treat bag of goodies. Thanks

Cori Laux, Wisconsin USA

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Riddles in instant treasure hunt led to treasure map

Hi Nikki. It was a big hit at my son's 7th Birthday party. It was a pirate themed b-day and I used some of the riddles and I made a treasure map that at each station had gold coins to collect and then ended at a real treasure chest that my son had ask for filled with treasures and gifts for him and his friends....he loved it and they all wanted to play again.....thanks for the help!

Jennifer Troutman, Pennsylvania USA

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Absolutely terrific treasure hunt

We had the treasure hunt party on Saturday - huge success! Because I am so very busy I was not able to put the pen to paper until the day before - it was grueling but absolutely terrific. My 10 year old party girls had an absolute blast! Thanks very much,

Roni Agress, Connecticut USA

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Treasure Hunt Loot in 6 Locations

Nikki,

The Treasure Hunt was a smashing success -thanks. We took most of your ideas and changed them a little to go with our group (we still did the 6 stations but made one station food related [they had to make a pirate delicacy from foods that were on the table without labels - crushed up Oreos looked like dirt, etc.]). They also had to name the delicacy, write out the recipe and 1/2 of the team had to take a bite in front of the First Mate!

We also decided to have 6 different treasures (one for each team so the game didn't end when the first team found their treasure). The 6 clues lead all the teams to the same location for the treasure Map but each Treasure Map had a different team's name. So, they had to locate their team's map which lead them to their own treasure. The teams didn't know this so they were quite surprised when they found loot at different locations.

Thanks so much!!

Judith Block, California USA

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Relay race with treasure hunt clues

We had fun, but these boys and girls went through the treasure hunt clues like a hot knife through butter and soon I had to organize them into a relay race. Luckily it was a gorgeous warm Halloween. I should have bought the next age group up. Like the backgrounds though.

Mary Keating, Maryland USA

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Treasure hunt kids running around like crazy

Hi Nikki,

Thanks for the Treasure Hunt. My son's 8th birthday party was great. All the kids loved the hunt and the last clue was a treasure map that lead to a buried treasure. They all were running around like crazy. My son still talks about it a week later. He wants to do it again next year.

My daughter is having her 16th birthday in November, I was wondering if I would have access to the site to make a treasure hunt for her party?

Thanks

Denise Feldle, New York USA

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Treasure hunt was something different

Hi Nikki, I had the party on Thursday, it was great everyone loved the hunt, it was something different. Everyone can?t wait for the next hunt.

Naila al Moosawi, USA

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Treasure chest up and in the middle of them all!

Hello Nikki,

It's taken awhile for me to respond, but my daughter reminded me of it today so I thought I should reply before I forgot again.

I had my treasure hunt for my 10 year old daughter?s birthday. It was a bit unorganized but hey I had to work the morning of the party. We had 17 kids over. My husband was uneasy about how we were going to keep them all entertained and having fun for 5 hours.

It was great! I scattered the stations all over the place. Finding the treasure map was the best. My husband hid it in a bird house. It took them like 10 minutes to clue in. They ran around it who knows how many times. The next best thing was the actual location of the treasure chest. Instead of burying it we strung it up in a tree. Of course, no one thought of looking up. It was right in the middle of all the action throughout the whole hunt. We were laughing. It was a blast.

This party took place middle of July. On this past Monday, one of kids mentions to my daughter that that was the most fun at a party. Now the other kids want treasure hunts too. Next year it will be even better since we had the trial run and it went over amazing. Thanks for your help.

Doris

Doris Traeger, Ontario Canada

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Clues in instant treasure hunt are perfectly balanced

Hello Nikki, We had our party yesterday and the treasure hunt was a lot of fun. I thought I made a mistake ordering instant treasure hunt but tailored it to my needs and graphics and the kids and parents were impressed. My nine year olds thought some clues were too easy and others a little confusing but not confusing enough to make you give up. That's a perfect balance in my opinion.

Thank you for the product and I will use again in home treasure hunts since that is what this particular product is tailored for ... the Instant Treasure Hunt was 'very' easy to use and tailor to your personal needs. The children had a great time running around the lake and many stated it was the best birthday party they've attended. I was surprised at the ease of setting up and the excitement it caused for all the children at the party. Thank you very much for your help and creativity. Take care and Thank you!

Diana Yi, California USA

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The kids had a ball at treasure hunt

Hi Nikki!

I just wanted to give you a report back on how the treasure hunt went.

The kids had a ball! I got some really great ideas from your book about what to do at the ports. I have a request out to our family for people to send me any pictures they took. I'll send you one if I get a cute one.

Susan Cotter, Minnesota USA

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Kids want to make treasure hunt yearly tradition

Hi Nikki, I found your site during a Google search. I had two days to plan a hunt for my 9 year old son and 6 of his friends, as a last day of school treat.

Your site really helped. I had to make some changes because I only had 7 kids, but it was a great time for all. The hunt and all the challenges took about 2 hours. I had a lot of fun putting it together too. Next time I will take more time planning.

The kids asked if we can do this next year for the last day of school. They want to make it a yearly tradition. Thanks.

Patti Chiofalo, New Jersey USA

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School treasure hunt

Hi Nikki, Thank you for your treasure hunt book. We held our treasure hunt a couple of weeks ago and it consisted of 12 groups of 10 year old children, a total of 110 kids. The treasure hunt was a culminating activity of our term's unit 'What is your treasure?' We had 6 stations and made up fun challenges at each stop, the children received a piece of the last puzzle each time they successfully completed a challenge. The teams eventually ended up in the principal's office where they found a spade and a beautifully tea-stained treasure map that directed them to a sand pit on the school property where the treasure was buried. The winning team received the contents of the treasure chest and each participant a love heart with the words 'Where your treasure is, there will be your heart also' Matt 21:6 with a chocolate bar attached to the back. The children absolutely loved the hunt and it was a highlight of the term. Your book was so helpful in setting up the treasure hunt, wh ich was quite complex with so many children involved. We will definitely use all of the tips again when we run the treasure unit next year. Thank you for all of your help and your follow-up emails which ensured the day was a huge success!

Anna Payne, Queensland, Australia

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Daughter's treasure hunt was great success

Hello Nikki

I have just had my daughter's treasure hunt party and it was a great success. I only had 8 little girls and instead of breaking them into teams they all went around together.

Best wishes

Maria Drury, Vaud Switzerland

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Scavenger hunt is a lot of fun

We just did our scavenger hunt it was a lot of fun and all ages enjoyed it .We would do it again.

Thank you

Rita Shepherd, New England USA

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Treasure hunt party was really fun

The treasure hunt party was really fun. All the girls loved it and we can't wait to do it again!!

Leslie Leopard, Alabama USA

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Treasure hunt for Halloween weekend

Nikki -I had my treasure hunt last weekend over Halloween --it went very well --we used the eye ball (ping pong) task and the mummy toilet paper task --among others ? the clue that I broke up into puzzle parts worked very well -even for 6 year olds!

I have a winter birthday coming up for an 11 year old --do you have any theme ideas?? -we have lots of snow here.....thanks

Holly Cluse, Vermont USA

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Kids had a ball at treasure hunt

Hi Nikki!, I just wanted to give you a report back on how the treasure hunt went. The kids had a ball! I got some really great ideas from your book about what to do at the ports. I have a request out to our family for people to send me any pictures they took. I'll send you one if I get a cute one.

Angelic Thompson, New Orleans USA

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Scavenger hunt for bible study group

Hello.

I read your book yesterday. I will being doing the Scavenger Hunt some time in July. I have until then to get it together. I am doing it for an age group of 12-17 both boys and girls. There should be approximately 6 girls and 6 boys. If invite another group it could potentially be more. For two years I had a neighborhood girls ministry. We use to do all kinds of things. That has been over for about 2 years. Recently I had a bible study for 12 year old boys in my home. That's been over for a month or so. Both groups have asked me to have 'something' for them this summer. They miss me, ahhhh. ha ha just kidding - they like being entertained. Anyway, both were bible study type deals in the past. The hunt doesn't have to do with the bible BUT I am sending them a paper with some short scripture fill in the blanks...that will be their ticket to come to the hunt. I'm thinking about having it in our downtown area - we live a small community. We can be at the park and they will have access to the city building, library, post office, tennis courts, river front, businesses, restaurants, etc... They can work for a while - break for lunch - and go again. I think it will be the boys against the girls. I have a lot of ideas running through my head. I'm going to need to go back through your book and write things down this time. I still need to think about what they have to do, why, what the prizes are etc... Lots to do yet.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Michelle Green, Kentucky USA

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Treasure hunt website details passed on to many parents

Hi Nikki, Party was yesterday and was a great success. As you would expect weather very unpredictable in Ireland for Nov but we were blessed with a dry if windy day. Have taken some photos and will email them to you this week. Thanks so much for package which I must say was very thorough. The hardest part for me was trying to contain the children (21 in total) when they arrived at party and explain how the treasure hunt worked. Your website details have been passed to several parents so hopefully you will reap the rewards. Thanks again and photos will follow.

Anne Goodwin, Co. Kildare Ireland

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Fun with treasure hunt party

We had a lot of fun! Thank you

Vincent Garnier, Georgia USA

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Treasure hunt had children running all over the neighborhood

Yes, indeed, our Treasure Hunt was successful and fun.

We had about 10 children ages 4 to 14. The event was a neighborhood block party. I broke them into two teams and started them in different spots of the hunt. They only were to pick up the clue for their color team. I'm attaching the list of clues that I used. It seemed hard enough and yet easy enough so as to not frustrate. Both teams found a clue and a puzzle piece put in a plastic bag at each spot. For the puzzle I glued two pages together--one side was a picture of a pirate and the other was the final clue to where the treasure map was hidden. I then cut that into puzzle pieces that I put with each clue. They were to put the picture puzzle of the pirate together then turn it over to read the clue to the treasure map. The final clue or treasure map I typed in several different fonts and printed it large. There were about 10 pages that I taped together and rolled it into a scroll. It took them to their treasure of candy and necklaces and gold chocolate coins. I will attach the final clue/ treasure map as well.

It certainly entertained the children and had them running all over the neighborhood. Both teams completed the hunt

Mary Ann Anderson, Illinois USA

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Teenage scavenger hunt

Thank you for checking on the party progress. We had the party and played a couple of the games. The kids (thirteen year olds) loved the scavenger hunt. One of the girls said she wanted to do the same thing for her party.

The party was a success. Thanks for your help,

Kelly Taylor, California USA

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Planned it all in 35 minutes!

Nikki,

Thanks for such great ideas. I found your site via Halloween.com and ordered the supplies Halloween morning for a party starting 5:30 that evening.

After setting up the haunted house, cleaning, and preparing the food we had about 35 minutes to plan. Even with such little time to plan the kids went home smiling and telling their parents they had a good time. We didn't get a chance the bury treasure but plan to for our daughter's birthday in the spring. Thanks for a great product and can I email you for ideas for our spring birthday party?

Thanks again.

Sidney Ricks, California USA

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Bonus traditional party games big success

We didn't have our treasure hunt due to the weather, but we used all the adult games from the bonus ebook and everyone enjoyed them thank you so much,

Wanda Keener, Texas USA

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