Archive for the ‘Treasure Hunt Party Game’ Category
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
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Nikki,
The reason I purchased the Treasure Hunt game was for use during our annual family vacation at a beach house in the Charleston SC area. The house we have rented for the week is directly on the beach and I am running a treasure hunt for our family.
Jack Taylor, Florida USA
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Dear Nikki
I can’t tell you what a life saver you are. My Halloween invitations were all sent; advertising a Treasure Hunt and I became ill. I didn’t know how I was ever going to pull it off, but 2 days before the party I logged in (log in info in your purchase confirmation email) and within 1 hour I had edited
the clues you provided to fit our surroundings. I then mailed them to my office; printed, cut and separated. Trust me…now that I know how wonderful your made to order ”hunts’ are; we will be having them at every party. The kids and adults had a blast.
Please keep me informed of anything new, especially for adult parties.
Thanks again to my new party planning best friend!
Darlene LoBue, Florida USA
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Nikki,
I have been working on the Treasure Hunt all week, and I’m finishing the final touches on the map tonight.
I am going to have 18 children ages 5-10 years. We are having the hunt at our farm around a creek. I will set up the stations tomorrow. I am excited about using the mummy challenge. My son wanted to have all physical challenges so I put all the younger children in a group, all the girls in a group and split the boys into two groups. I think there will be less competition within the groups. Sometimes boys tend to get too competitive. I have chosen five other physical challenges including a multilegged race, a musical water glass, an egg race, a water balloon toss, the mummy challenge, and a water race.
I am going to hide a key for each team, which will open the treasure chest with their goody bags in them.
I have enough adults for each station. I think that will help.
The rest of the party includes a hotdog cookout, a hay ride, a hike in a really cool creek with caves, frogs, and lizards, and the treasure hunt, not to mention the cake and icecream and the presents. I hope it doesn’t get dark before we’re finished.
I used many good ideas from your ebook. I copied the station names onto yellow cardstock and laminated them. We will attach them to posts which are in place already.
Thanks for the great ideas.
Sincerely,
Shelley Grellner, Oklahoma USA
Monday, August 13th, 2007Hi,
I used your treasure hunt for my best friend’s 40th birthday party. I did not know most of the people that came; so, I was a little nervous about pulling the whole thing off. I purchased your delightfully easy-to-implement treasure hunt only about ten days before the party.
We all had so much fun! The guests were laughing constantly and couldn’t wait to reach the actual treasure. There were groups of her friends from all different backgrounds–many of whom who seemed reluctant to mix with the others. The treasure hunt was so wonderful that new friendships were formed, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses were exchanged, and my husband and I are enjoying a reputation for being the best party givers ever.
We received so many compliments, you just would be amazed. My friend for whom the party was given was at her office the next day; and, she said the people that had elected not to come were very disappointed when they heard how much fun everyone else had. One young lady upon leaving said to me that she would like to be invited to the next party I have. I had to laugh as I had never met her prior to my friend’s party.
It has been nearly a month; and, we are still the talk of the town so to speak. We live in one of those areas where everyone knows everyone else’s business whether they know you or not. I imagine you should be receiving a lot of hits from the folks in Salinas, California so they too can give the greatest party ever.
Not only did your program delight every single last party guest; but, it was easy for me to arrange as well. You have a remarkable product that will serve well for years as it is true quality. A rare find today! Thank you so very much.
Sincerely
Cynthia Bryn Smith, California USA
Saturday, August 11th, 2007The treasure hunt party is for my daughters’ 13th birthday. It will be the night of October 8th. We are in the East Texas area, Chester to be exact. I plan on starting the party around 5:30 pm; I am hoping for cool weather; with E. Texas you never know. The party will be around our pool, and we have about 15 acres of lawn to use. Because it is her 13th, we are planning to bar-b-q, and of course the kids will swim (weather permitting). I am unsure of guest totals, the minimum will be about 30 kids, and 20 parents.
I would love to include some of the parents on the teams. Safely I figure there will be 42 players, and had considered making 7 teams.
Krista Jernigan, Texas USA
Thursday, August 9th, 2007I am planning to use the treasure hunt for our annual family reunion July
I have a year to plan all this out.
Thanks,
Elizabeth Toole,
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Nikki,
I purchased the Halloween game in addition to the treasure hunt. I am having a children’s Halloween party and maybe you could give me some pointers since you plan parties all the time. The agenda that I have come up with goes as follows:
Arrival 5:pm.
Upon entering the house each child will get a Halloween printed painter’s smock and flashlight.
Children will then go through the haunted house. (in the garage)
Once they come out of the haunted house they will go in to the living room which will be set up as a carnival, there will be different booths with different activities. These will include things such as, the fishing game (easier for the young kids), painting mini pumpkins and little wooden snakes, face painting, draw a pumpkin on a paper plate on your head, penny toss, we are still deciding on the others.
After they play and run around for a while visiting the different booths, getting little candies and toys to fill the pockets of their smocks.
Then it will be time to eat. (while the kids are eating, the Halloween game is being set up)
After they are done eating. The kids are split into their groups and the activity begins. They visit each station completing the activities. Once they have completed the activity they get a clue. (one of the cards from the treasure hunt game) once they have completed each station they will then fallow the clues on the cards they have received. At the end will be a treasure box hidden for each team.
The children then have the option to go though the haunted house a few times before the party ends.
I have never thrown a children’s Halloween party, so this will be fun. The ages range from 2 years to around 8 years of age. The majority of the children are between 5 and 8.
Kathryn Sepulveda, Nevada USA
Sunday, August 5th, 2007Nikki,
I was able to get several good ideas for my treasure hunt. I’m putting together a birthday party for my son and two nieces on the last weekend of January, (the 27th & 28th). My son turns 16 on the 20th, one niece turns 18 on the 23rd, and another niece turns 17 on the 26th. This party will consist mostly of teenagers, and their parents with a total group of about 35-40 people. My son and both nieces wanted to invite all their friends who have ATV’s, and play games that could involve ATV’s. We have a wooded area that consists of about 320 acres, and most attendees will be staying and camping on Saturday night. The treasure hunt seemed like a good idea.
Since most everyone participating will be riding an ATV, I wanted to limit the number of teams to only 3 or 4, with responsible adults leading each group. I need to emphasize that this is not a race because I don’t want anyone riding too fast and risk anyone getting injured. Also, only about 1/2 of those attending are familiar with our land. Some of those attending has never even been there before.
At this time, I’m thinking I will probably use GPS coordinates to direct each team from one location to the other. On our property, we have a small pond, we have 4 access gates (chain link), an old cabin with an old outhouse, and several deer hunting stands that would all make for good hiding places. By the way, our party is in East Texas.
Steve Carver, Texas USA
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Hey there,
Thanks for the follow up emails on the treasure hunt game. I’m using your party as a ’springboard’ for a bigger event… I’m integrating some cool coins, actual treasure, a cool map, and a cryptex, over 3 different birthday parties between August and December for 7-10 year olds (and helped by their parents)
I’ll let you know how it all goes! Thanks so much,
Jewels Hanson, California USA
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Nikki,
The pirate treasure hunt was great. The kids had a lot of fun. The only thing I changed is I had the kids put their colored bandannas on first so everyone would know what color they were. I also replaced the gold earrings with tattoos at that station. The winning team really got into digging up the treasure. It was great to see girls really get into the game. Thanks for everything!!
Catherine Ferguson, Utah USA
Monday, July 30th, 2007The treasure hunt went very well, thanks! I was in a big rush, since my daughter decided last minute she’d like to have a birthday party, but we had it yesterday for a group of older teen girls. I’ve done several treasure hunts before–some of my own devising–but yours was a nice ready-to-go package, which is what I needed. Definitely worth the money. I especially liked your suggestions to have a variety of challenges that would speak to all the teammates various strengths. We live on 5 acres and also have various buildings that can be part of a hunt, so ours lasted about 1 1/2 hours! The girls kept very busy!
Anyway, thanks for making a good product.
Celia Ramsey, California USA
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Hi Nikki,
Yes we are planning a secret agent party for our ten year old boy, Matthew.
We plan to set up the stations as ‘training grounds’ with tasks of mental, physical, disguise, agility, teamwork and code breakers. We will be using our yard and house as the playing area. We have a dark little room downstairs where we are planning to set up a ‘laser grid’ for them to master and then get to one of the activities (which will be set up under a single light :).
We will have about 10 boys all together who are pretty bright and agile so we are trying to come up with some good puzzles, etc… We are having trouble thinking of a teamwork challenge but otherwise, we have supplies for the spy disguises (mustache, dark glasses, spy hats, fake ids, etc..) and we will use the walking on a line activity in conjunction with our physical training (ie, obstacle course, which includes low crawl, jumping rope, push ups, etc…). We are excited about all of it–my husband is helping me think up some ideas too.
I was thinking of wrapping chocolate bars in gold paper to look like gold bricks to put in the ’safe’. All of your ideas were a great jumping-off point to go with our theme. Thanks so much for the boost’
Kim Lloyd, Illinois 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
Friday, July 27th, 2007I am planning a treasure hunt for our youth group of approx 15 teenagers in a church hall.
Carol Caven, UK
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Nikki,
The treasure hunt party this past weekend was a huge success. We had an away sleep-over at our family mountain house and had the treasure hunt on day 2. It went extremely smoothly and the ten girls had a blast! Last week was an insane week and I had little time to prepare, and now that I’ve done the hunt I feel like I could do it perfectly next time. Your product is exceptional and you truly saved me valuable time and stress!!! I look forward to having another hunt sometime very soon.
Thanks so much
Kirsten Salas, Georgia USA
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007We had a lot of fun! Thank you
Vincent Garnier, Georgia USA
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Hi 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
Friday, July 20th, 2007Hi Nikki,
I held my treasure hunt at my son’s birthday party at my moms house on a farm. We had adults and children ( youngest age 4) all play. I spaced out my stations a bit far ( the older ones got quite a workout!) but everyone had fun and enjoyed it! I am going to use it again for my son’s grade 6 class at the end of the year party and we are going to do it in and around the school grounds.
Thanks
Lori Hepburn, Ontario Canada
Thursday, July 19th, 2007I am planning a treasure hunt activity day with my youth group at church. I have a small group but it consist of stair step ages (don’t think I even have 2 the same age). We are on a limited budget.
Tami, Orlando, USA
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Hello Mrs. Wilson,
I was pleased to find your treasure hunt web-site through Google. I have been creating different games and activities for the past 6 years for my soon to be 11 year old, and my creativity seemed drained this year. When I came across your web-site, I thought of so many ways I could use your book and your ideas. I am going to try it on Dec. 2nd with my son and his friends, but also have three young daughters who would love it in the years to come. I am also a school teacher and thought I could use it with my students at school or even for a fun staff party. The ways to use this are endless, thank you for your hard work.
Pat yourself on the back,
Donna Wolford, Ohio USA
Monday, July 16th, 2007The treasure hunt game was great. It still took me a while to put it together; but it would not have happened at all without your program. The girls playing were 12 and 13 years old, so it needed to be sophisticated enough to keep their interest; and it was. I thought the activities might be too easy for them but in fact they said it was just right. It was interesting to see how one activity would stump one team and not another. I had to work with the adult supervisors to prevent them from helping too much, explaining that each team has their own challenge and let them work though it. It took them at least an hour to get through the game and everyone loved it including the adults.
Thanks
Kimber Smith, California USA
Friday, July 13th, 2007Dear Nikki,
The treasure hunt party is the day after Thanksgiving for my son’s 13th birthday.
There will probably only be 3-4 other boys and several adult family members (about 8?) We live in a neighborhood where there are large yards and a lot of woods around so I had planned to bury the treasure (yet to be determined) in the woods. I think a map would probably be the best idea but not sure. We live in North Central Florida in Gainesville.
Eva Dimitrov, Florida USA
Friday, July 13th, 2007I 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
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Hi Nikki,
You have a great product. We just might be your first customers to conduct our treasure hunt in the nude. Our events calendar had a kids’ treasure hunt scheduled for Saturday afternoon. I used some of your ideas to design the hunt, but I am saving the full version for next season when we will have better attendance in the warm weather months. The kids (ages 5,6, & 9) loved it, and I can’t wait to put on the full program next year. Thank you.
Stuart Antrim, Georgia USA