These days, more and more venues and event organisers have treasure hunts you can buy from them. Many companies prefer to get their own staff to create them, too. So why would anyone come to us? What do we provide that you can’t already get elsewhere?
- Writing a good treasure hunt takes a great deal of skill, practice and cunning. If the clues are too easy to find or too close together, people get bored. Too hard or too far apart and they give up.
- Judging what makes a “good” clue is not at all straightforward. After 15 years of writing them, we think know how to.
- Our treasure hunts are always created especially for the client, suit the group they’re meant for and are always very up-to-date. We don’t do “one size fits all” and, because they’ve been checked very recently, our clues are still where they should be.
- Going from place to place finding answers to clues is fun – but has its limits. Especially when they are meant as team-building activities, it’s good to include other ingredients in them. Ours have a “scavenger hunt” element (items you must create or find as you go round) and involve interactions with undercover actors. Imagine the scene: you’re in a village, town centre, park or pub you’ve never been into before. One of the people in it is your “contact”. Who should you approach? How will you approach them? What will you say to them? As group tasks go, it certainly isn’t one many usually face – and the more resourceful, the more charming, the more confident the group is, the better the results!
- While a treasure hunt is taking place, teams rarely have much to do with any other teams. As a way of bringing a whole group together and bonding them, this has limits. We always end our hunts with a task in which all the teams take part together. And, along the way, they will often find themselves competing against other teams in quick, “sudden death” challenges.
For more information about how we can make your treasure hunt special, different and truly memorable, call or email us now.