Treasure and Scavenger Hunts: How to Plan, Create, and Give Them (Treasure Hunt Series Book 1)

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How to plan a super party your friends, co-workers, kids, or kin will be talking about forever! The magic ingredients? A TREASURE HUNT, a SCAVENGER HUNT, and BRAINSTORMERS! What makes this a once-in-a-lifetime SPECIAL PARTY? You’ll create your own clues (it's easy and fun—we'll show you how), then just follow the book’s ready-to-go party instructions. Treasure and Scavenger Hunts: How to Plan, Create, and Give Them walks you through it all, step by step… The book provides all of the details needed to amuse, delight, and bewilder your family and friends at the party of the year! It shows what you do when. It includes hundreds of ideas, a "magic checklist," and a ready-made scavenger list—precisely what you need to know and do to make you properly look like a genius! Bring back the old-fashioned treasure and scavenger hunts! Better yet, combine them into a super party! Be the host of the year! Here, Gordon Burgett gives you hundreds innovative themes and clues, a script, safety and timing guides, everything for memorable events for kids, teens, and adults. Learn... How to write fun, challenging clues How to avoid problems with safety How to create a beguiling scavenger hunt list How to plan a super party around the hunts Where to hide the items sought so they're never taken How to add more enjoyment with brainstormers Even more than a step-by-step guide, this book also includes 23 model Treasure Hunt clues, 145 suggestions for a Scavenger Hunt list, 15 Brainstormers, and a 70-item checklist for the Super Party! What are BRAINSTORMERS? They're Gordon’s invention. They will make your party the best ever. There are 15 of them in the book, and once you get the hang of them, you can create another dozen right away. (You'll only need 6-12 total to keep your hunters frothing with fun.) Hunts for adults, teens, kids… They can be inside your house or school or church, in a park or yard, within a city block, or city- or county-wide… Hunts that can include cars, feet, phones, computers, digital cameras—or the players can even be immobile! How many can take part in the hunt? Four or 40 or a whole city. (An entire NJ town once used this book to plan their massive outing!) Hunts can be for your family, friends, church, company, cruise, lodge… Who doesn't love treasure and scavenger hunts? Here’s the book that shows you how you create, plan, lay out, and determine how long the hunt will take, how far the participants will have to travel, in what way (walk, car, cycle), and how the clues or directions will be provided and how they must provide your solutions to you. In short, everything any treasure hunt participant would need to know to enjoyably participate. Thus, this is the first book In the Treasure Hunt series. Subsequent books in this series will provide a full hunt to use as a model for future hunt creations (like the second book in the Treasure Hunt series, 100 Ready-to-Use Treasure Hunt Clues. Future books in the series will focus on more specific directions and examples of clue development, guidance on providing scavenger hunt lists, other means by which hunts can be designed (computer, code, news-based, language and symbol coding, etc.), activities to do (like poem writing) or stunts, performances, or interactive directions to perform at sites, etc.) The second book in the KDP "Treasure Hunt Series" is now out: see Amazon's 100 Ready-to-Use Treasure Hunt Clues", in both ebook and paperback formats. Read more