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Sunday, September 16th, 2007It went great. It was a summer end employee treasure hunt party and at the end the treasure was a chest full of $1 gold coins. Each employee got part of the treasure. I had to modify the clues to make it work at my resort but it went great. The employees loved it. The only thing I would do different would be to number the clues. A couple of groups found a clue that was not the correct one. If I numbered them, they would know that it wasn’t the right clue. However, the team that actually won didn’t skip any clues so that part was kinda funny.
Darlene Downs, Idaho USA
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007I am doing a treasure hunt for a bunch of 17 year old soccer players as a team bonding event before they leave to compete in a Regional tournament
Patty Seitz, New Jersey USA
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007We are having our annual corporate Christmas Party (January) up north @ a ski resort (Ont-Canada) Our theme this year is Pirates and Wenches. 40 people all adult..drinkers?
Patti Allen, Ontario Canada
Saturday, September 1st, 2007Nikki - you are a life saver! I really love it and as a result of your packaged managed to switch gears and really make my hunt something special, it happens on Tuesday, now I have full confidence it will be a winner!!
In Victoria, BC - Tues Apr 10 (I’d already done a lot of pre-planning) for Company Team Building, all adults/
Cheers!
Chris Hill, British Columbia Canada
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Nikki hi,
The Scavenger Hunt at Wal-Mart was very fun. I had my co-workers running from one end of the store to the other. The best thing.. I had them pushing each other in shopping carts outside in the Wal-Mart parking lot and video taping each other. We even had them take pictures with Wal-Mart employees.
They said the Scavenger Hunt was really fun and really appreciated the work that I put into this event.
Thanks,
Susie Myers, USA
Saturday, July 28th, 2007I am looking for a unique idea for a company party. There are about 15 employees and their families so a total of about 30 people. I would like to do this in a park and have all ages participate—mix it up a little so people get to know each other.
Laurie Oliver, California USA
Monday, June 4th, 2007Hi Nikki,
I am the one handling our treasure hunt. It’s a company picnic
We are in Guam (US Territory, an island in the Pacific) - it’s hot and sometimes rainy. Our setting for the party is at a beach/picnic area outdoors. Plenty of grassy areas, plenty of water, but very little sand - mostly big rocks instead.
August 5th
this is the summer company picnic
about 250 guests - mostly adults but also some children
Our theme is a treasure hunt - I’m having some trouble with this one, as I would like a slogan or title for our event. I like the pirate idea too, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to NAME our event after ‘pirates’ or ‘raiders’ or ‘plunderers’ etc. as it is the company’s image at stake
We have already begun planning the games and playing areas for our treasure hunt. since we have so many people, I think we may plan a simulated trial-run with a few of us prior to the event, just to make sure we’ve planned it well. I’ll let you know if we have any questions.
Thanks!
Nicole Sonario, Guam USA
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Hi Nikki,
I have actually purchased the Treasure Hunt game for two parties. The first one involves my Sunday School class (I am one of the leaders, not in the age group of 18 to 30!!!). The class is College Aged Young Single Adults from age 18 to 30. We are planning a retreat weekend and thought this game would be perfect for them. We are always looking for games for that age group.
The second group is for a state convention for pulmonary and vascular medical workers. Their meeting is in April but the lady in charge for this year’s event wanted to do a treasure hunt and have me come up with the ideas. When I saw your website it looked perfect.
The first group will probably do their thing outside, the second group will be inside at an Embassy Suites. Any help you can give me will be much appreciated.
The Sunday School group will be themed from the Bible, probably from the Old Testament.
The second group would need something with heart and lung theme.
Thanks for the follow up!!
Connie Wilson, Ohio USA
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007Hi Nikki,
I work for the Department of Human Services Child Welfare for the State of Oregon. The party is taking place here in Portland, Oregon at the Zoo. The date of this event is Tuesday, August 8, starting at 8:30 am. and running until 4:00 pm. Because the State of Oregon does not pay it’s employees to take ‘Party’ days off our event is called the Support Staff Off Site Work Shop Day and the Treasure Hunt is one fun activity we are doing to end the session. The age range of everyone participating is from 26-60. The theme is ‘Safari Hunt’ since it is going to be held in the Zoo. A co-worker and myself went to the Zoo last night and set everything up with the help of their administrative staff. Also, since the state will not allow us to have just and offsite fun day our guest speaker is speaking on communication so each person had to provide me with their favorite animal and they are divided up according to animals. Each person also has to figure out just how there animal communicates so we are using your game and just critiqued it a little. We are all really excited about this event as some of the adults thought this was just a kids game until I explained how the operation was going to work.
I will tell you more about it after the event.
Thank you so much,
Melody Higgins, Oregon USA
Saturday, April 21st, 2007We had our pirate treasure hunt game this week-end on our yacht club cruise. We did all the planning, purchasing the treasure and put it together in 3 days with very late nights, but it was a huge success. Everyone had a great time. We have many more ideas for another hunt next year when we will have more time to plan.
Thank-you for all the great ideas and for all the flexibility to the game, it was easily adaptable to our space, weather and various abilities of our players. Our youngest player was 7 years old and our oldest was in their late 60’s and they all enjoyed the challenges, puzzles and best of all finding the map and treasure.
Bev Hamlik, Washington USA
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007Thanks for your interest, Nikki. This party will be for our employees at a summer home. It is in a lakeside community near Lake MI. We have not yet decided whether to make it a pirate theme or not. Purchased both. We will be heading up there on Saturday and will be able to scope it out…
Lou Kuncaitis, Michigan USA
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007It went great. It was a summer end employee party and at the end the treasure was a chest full of $1 gold coins. Each employee got part of the treasure. I had to modify the clues to make it work at my resort but it went great. The employees loved it. The only thing I would do different would be to number the clues. A couple of groups found a clue that was not the correct one. If I numbered them, they would know that it wasn’t the right clue. However, the team that actually won the treasure hunt didn’t skip any clues so that part was kinda funny
Darlene Downs, Indiana USA
Saturday, February 17th, 2007Nikki,
Your product sounds terrific, but I’m at a loss as to which version to purchase. Our volunteer fire department has an annual Homecoming (fund-raiser) and I’m planning a scavenger hunt. The age range could be 10 to 18. Would the ‘kids’ option be too young if I split the group or would I be able to modify per your examples?
Sincerely,
Bethany Miller
Arbonne Independent Consultant
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Hi Bethany
If you are referring to our Treasure Hunt Party Game, I suggest the adult / all ages version would work fine for a group of 10 -18 year olds. We do also have a scavenger hunt product.
There are some differences between our major ebook products: Treasure Hunt and Scavenger Hunt. The Treasure Hunt Party Game is based around six locations, at each location, the teams are required to complete a challenge or puzzle in order to win pieces of a clue. The clue pieces when put together will lead them to the treasure map and then onto the treasure. The Scavenger Hunt game is about collecting items or completing tasks on a list. Teams compete to complete the list, or to earn points in a given timeframe. The game style is your choice.
Best wishes
Nikki
Bethany Miller, USA
Friday, January 26th, 2007Hi Nikki,
I am currently planning a Staff (family) barbecue for this weekend. It is being held at a park site with a lake in Hamilton, Ontario Canada. The age of the guests range from 3 to 65.
Thanks for the help,
Jane Jones, Ontario Canada
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Hi Nikki -
A word of thanks — I used your book to plan a scavenger hunt for my company’s annual meeting. The meeting had approximately 30 people was held in downtown Reno, NV.
The meeting’s participants couldn’t stop raving about how much fun they had on the scavenger hunt and getting to know their teammates along the way. We combined a hunt for actual items (such as a spoon and something gold), a hunt for information (the name of the Civic Leader of the Year, the name of the director a play at a local theater) with a photo hunt (pictures of all team members with their toes in the Truckee River, a picture with a certain employee at a casino, a picture with an art object on the sidewalk). For bonus points, we challenged each team to buy and bring back the most exciting item they could with $5. We then had all the meeting participants vote on the most exciting item brought back by the other groups (they couldn’t vote for their own team’s item) and awarded bonus points for the winning item. A great time was had by all during the Hunt as well as presenting their exciting item to the other groups.
Your book was very helpful in knowing the types of clues to include, items to search for, ground rules and scoring. We wouldn’t have had such a successful event without the help your book provided.
Thanks again
Suzanne Foley, Nevada USA
Friday, January 12th, 2007Nikki
Thank you for your correspondence. I’m actually doing it for a camp. It’s a performing arts camp and the theme for the camp is journeys/adventures, so I thought it would be fun to do an adventure treasure hunt to get the group experiencing an adventure.
I have four groups, and I’m going to have them go to five different locations and at the last location, is where the clue will be so it will be in that last location where’re they’ve done a problem solving/puzzle activity together. You see, we are going to take it a bit further, where they actually have to get their passports/journals stamped by the person at each of these stations. We actually have made them different lands….water land, underground, insect land, rain forest. And they have to get a stamp from the ambassador of that land after they have completed their tasks.
Thanks,
Rebecca Fisher, California USA
Thursday, December 28th, 2006The theme is team building, for a group of managers at IBM. They were just reorganized into groups that may now report together, when in the past they may have been in ‘opposing’ groups. So, they are all adults, usually very literal minded, and are typically VERY competitive. There will be about 40 people involved.
We’ll be mixing them so that they get to know people they did not know well in the past. It is very hot here now, so I think we will have to play mostly indoors. The challenges will be mainly brain-teasers, and I think I’ll have them do something (?) that ‘forces’ them to get to know something about one another as people, (versus as co-workers). There will be 6-8 people per team.
Wendy Murphy, North Carolina USA
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006Hey Nikki
I did receive the treasure hunt game immediately. Thank you. I have done a quick overview, and have come up with many ideas to adapt it to our needs. Our party is in January. It is our company Christmas Party that we hold up north of Toronto/ Canada @ a Ski Resort. Employees bring their spouses for the weekend. I will have around 38 adults this year. The last couple of years we have had a theme for the weekend. Last year it was a 70’s party.
This year the theme is Pirates and Bar Wenches. I thought that a Treasure Hunt on the Friday night would be perfect. Everyone must dress in costume….I was putting the pressure on around Halloween to get them shopping! My husband and I own the Market Research Tabulation firm and have many long term employees. I enjoy making the effort to ensure a great party! I haven’t decided yet how much of the resort I will use for the hunt. Our ‘Party Suite’ is about 600 sq ft 2 levels. But as I am writing I guess there is no reason I can’t spread it out more around the resort which is actually 2 buildings (50 rooms)
I would like to bury the treasure in the snow…but other than that it will be too cold to play outside at night! I plan to have 6 crews of 6 pirates each with my husband and I as officers.
The crews will be led by their Pirate Captain…I have already ordered their flags! I have also found pirate trivia/crosswords etc. I was also hoping to have some sort of plank to walk…people will be drinking..should be a challenge! I guess the only thing that jumped out at me that I need to adapt is the idea of the train station schedule…I need something related to the SEA!
Thanks for your email
I will be in touch…Half of the fun is the planning for me!
Patti Allen, Ontario Canada
Saturday, November 18th, 2006Ms. Wilson,
I plan the Scavenger Hunt for our Employee Awards day at our college. We have a theme for the event and I try to also incorporate a theme for the hunt. This year we are having a western theme, so I went with the same theme in relation to our campus and Texas. Attached you will find my list so far.
Thank you
Beverly Clark, Texas USA
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006Nikki,
I own the Island Packet Sailboat dealership for the state of Florida. Every year all the owners of Island Packets gather for a Rendezvous that lasts Friday-Sunday. We have a race on Saturday but not everyone wants to participate, so we usually try to have other activities. I came across your game and thought it might be fun, especially with a Pirate theme since we?re sail boaters.
I see there could be actual digging involved! Our event will be held at a Yacht Club so I have to be careful that I don?t break any of their rules 
Debbie Whittaker, Florida USA
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Nikki,
I appreciate your follow up.
I am thinking of using the treasure hunt in a weekend of events during our Island Packet Sailboat Rendezvous. We are the Island Packet dealer for Florida and the Caribbean and every year we host a rendezvous for all the owners in the area. The weekend includes cocktail party, awards banquet, dinner and dancing, seminars. Etc. This is my first year to be in charge of this event and I am a bit overwhelmed with everything I have to get done.
I am thinking of using the treasure hunt on Saturday when we have a sailboat race, however, not everyone wants to participate in the race. I am using the game to fill some of the time for those who choose not to be in the race. To make things easier for me I am considering doing away with the combination portion of the game. I thought I could make it part of the rules that they cannot put the pieces of the puzzle together to determine the clue until they have collected all six pieces.
I liked the ideas for the tasks/challenges you sent with the game. Since we are a sailboat group, I am trying to come up with ideas centered around pirates or nautical things.
Debbie Whitteaker, Florida USA
Thursday, August 31st, 2006Hi Nikki,
I work for Wells Fargo and am planning our company picnic (approx 80 adults) that will take place on Angel Island (in the middle of the San Francisco Bay). We are scheduled to be on the island from 10:30A to 3:20P and I am looking for a fun group event.
A treasure hunt sounds like a fun idea however I have never planned one before. Gonna give it a go with your treasure hunt party game planner.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006Nikki- So you are a real person. What a nice surprise.
Actually this is part of a larger fundraising event for
Orphans of Aids Victims in Africa. I have a 60 acre
piece of property with about 5 acres of woods with trails etc I was thinking of burying the treasure in the woods. I have not had a chance to thoroughly go through what I down loaded from you but I will soon to make sure it applies.
Thanks, I will definitely contact you if I need to.
Liza Lightfoot, Wisconsin USA
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HI Nikki,
The Scavenger Hunt is in London, Ontario, Canada on September 22.
This is for our local insurance association. We have a scavenger hunt every year. Age range is from 20 to 65. I have not yet had a chance to read it but I have skimmed through it a little. It looks very interesting.
Pam McNichol Smith, Ontario Canada
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006Thanks for inquiring. Our company picnic will have a ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ theme. A treasure hunt seemed a natural choice. We will have about 100 people, children and adults. One decision is whether to have two different hunts or to put children and adults together on a team. We also have many choices for locations. There is a nature trail through the woods, a ball field, a pond, front yard, and inside the buildings. My guess is we shouldn’t spread out too much.
I’ll contact you with other questions as I get further along in the planning. Your follow-up is very unexpected and welcome.
Jill Haer, Maine USA