How do you make excellent treasure hunts?
Remember when you were a kid, how much fun good treasure hunts were. The
mystery and intrigue of solving the clues and the excitement of what you might
discover at the end. This is the most important part of any good treasure hunt;
keeping the suspense going. You will need to have a number of clues so they
don’t just proceed directly to the treasure, however not too many so that it
gets long and tedious. Typically around four to five is fine. In most cases, it
doesn’t much matter what the “treasure” is at the end. A good treasure hunt is
determined by the hunt. Now do not misunderstand me, a great prize is excellent,
but folks will really enjoy the hunt based on the hunting itself.
There are several different things that you could do for hunts. One
particular sort of treasure hunt is to make a treasure map. A treasure map will
show the spot of the treasure and how to get there, thus to keep the suspense
alive you need to obscure markers on the map so the location of the treasure
won’t be obvious. In addition, on the map you can keep distances obscured and
have some problems, questions, or riddles that the treasure hunters need to
answer so as to find out how far to travel in certain directions.
Another kind of hunt would be to have one clue lead to the location of the
next clue and so forth until eventually the last clue tells the spot of the
treasure. This is the more popular sort of treasure hunt. When writing the clues
it is important to not make them too hard, but not too easy as well. If they are
too simple and obvious then there is no suspense involved in discovering the
treasure. Remember, the joy is in the hunt. Needless to say if the clues are too
hard then it isn’t any fun either because the hunt comes to a halt.
It requires practice to create great clues. It is easy to make the clues too
tricky because you know where the next location is. So the clue makes complete
sense to you, but the treasure hunters are coming in cold as it were with no
idea where the next location is. That can make it quite tricky. The treasure
hunters most likely are not thinking the same way you were and will see the clue
totally different than you do.
It requires practice and work to create a good treasure hunt and to write
good clues. But if you are able to put together a fun hunt, it will totally be
worth all the effort and time that you put in.
mystery and intrigue of solving the clues and the excitement of what you might
discover at the end. This is the most important part of any good treasure hunt;
keeping the suspense going. You will need to have a number of clues so they
don’t just proceed directly to the treasure, however not too many so that it
gets long and tedious. Typically around four to five is fine. In most cases, it
doesn’t much matter what the “treasure” is at the end. A good treasure hunt is
determined by the hunt. Now do not misunderstand me, a great prize is excellent,
but folks will really enjoy the hunt based on the hunting itself.
There are several different things that you could do for hunts. One
particular sort of treasure hunt is to make a treasure map. A treasure map will
show the spot of the treasure and how to get there, thus to keep the suspense
alive you need to obscure markers on the map so the location of the treasure
won’t be obvious. In addition, on the map you can keep distances obscured and
have some problems, questions, or riddles that the treasure hunters need to
answer so as to find out how far to travel in certain directions.
Another kind of hunt would be to have one clue lead to the location of the
next clue and so forth until eventually the last clue tells the spot of the
treasure. This is the more popular sort of treasure hunt. When writing the clues
it is important to not make them too hard, but not too easy as well. If they are
too simple and obvious then there is no suspense involved in discovering the
treasure. Remember, the joy is in the hunt. Needless to say if the clues are too
hard then it isn’t any fun either because the hunt comes to a halt.
It requires practice to create great clues. It is easy to make the clues too
tricky because you know where the next location is. So the clue makes complete
sense to you, but the treasure hunters are coming in cold as it were with no
idea where the next location is. That can make it quite tricky. The treasure
hunters most likely are not thinking the same way you were and will see the clue
totally different than you do.
It requires practice and work to create a good treasure hunt and to write
good clues. But if you are able to put together a fun hunt, it will totally be
worth all the effort and time that you put in.