• Number of teams/players, age range, length of hunt, pre-hunt prep time for all our scavenger hunt games
• Customizing a hunt
• What's included with the hunts
• What software is needed
• Digital camera options
  

NUMBER OF TEAMS or PARTICIPANTS: Unlimited.

AGE RANGE:

• Operation Our Town, Operation When Nature Calls and Operation Recovery: Age 10 to adult.
• Operation City Slickers, Operation Viva Las Vegas, Operation Streets of San Francisco, Operation Black Cat: Age 14 to adult.
• Operation Romantic Rendezvous: Adults only; couples only.

LENGTH OF THE HUNTS: 1 1/2 - 4 hours, depending on the size of your group*: 5 minutes for opening instructions and team organization; 1 1/2 - 2 hours for the scavenger hunt and about 1/2 hour or more for the grading, (optional) team presentations and awards presentation. *The more teams you have, the more time it will take.

PRE-HUNT PREP TIME: For up to 6 teams, you can put our scavenger hunts together in about 4-6 hours (includes shopping for supplies, reading the scavenger hunt and prepping the materials); as you add teams, you'll need to add time to the pre-hunt prep. You mostly need to print (and perhaps edit) the documents included with the kit, pack the collection bags and you'll need to get team prizes, digital cameras and other inexpensive supplies like clipboards and pens. Our facilitator guide provides a supply checklist for you. Operation Recovery and Operation Romantic Rendezvous do NOT require cameras.

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HOW TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR SCAVENGER HUNT GAME: All our scavenger hunt games are formatted in Microsoft Word which means you can EASILY edit them to personalize the scavenger hunt for your event. For example, if you select the Our Town hunt for a birthday party, you can have the teams make a birthday present as one of the team projects. If you're going to a place you've never been, search the Internet for the "city name" and the results will provide you with informative web sites you can use to plug in location specific challenges. You'll also find some nice ideas on our testimonial pages.

Use one of these scavenger hunt games as a template for planning your own. Yes, we know, you COULD create one yourself but that means hours of work. Think of how much time you’d save yourself if you had a foundation on which to build your own scavenger hunt game.

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THESE SCAVENGER HUNT KITS** INCLUDE FRIENDLY, HELPFUL SUPPORT ALONG WITH MASTER COPIES OF:

• The scavenger hunt
• The rules of the game
• Step by step, easy to follow organizer instructions that will guide you through the hunt from start to finish
• Supply list
• Award certificates
• Scavenger hunt invitation
• Team grading checklist
• Team name badges
• Team ID table tents
• Final presentation (optional) scoring cards
• PLEASE NOTE: You will need to provide collection bags, digital cameras and other items (like pens and clipboards) for this hunt.

** Click here for what's included with the Operation Recovery Find Items Hunt.
** Click here for what's included with the Operation Romantic Rendezvous Hunt.

Our 16-page how-to guide to designing a location to location riddle hunt for your city or town - FREE with purchase!

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The 3 software programs you'll need:

1) WinZip - or similar program (for PC users) or Unstuffit (Mac users). Your game documents will be contained in a .zip file (think of it as a container). Winzip (or Unstuffit) opens that container so you can get to the game documents.

• FOR WINDOWS USERS, use the FREE ZipGenius - http://www.download.com/ZipGenius/3000-2250_4-10179818.html
• FOR MAC USERS, use the FREE StuffIt Expander: http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/

2) Microsoft Word or similar word processing software (like Microsoft Works or Word Perfect). If you have a Mac and don't have Microsoft Word, download this software for a free 30 day trial so you can view, print and edit our game as needed.

Don't have ANY word processing software on your computer? Try the free OpenOffice software. This is a free software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, graphics and more. It can also read and write files from other common office software packages (like Word).

3) Some hunts require the most current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

If you have ANY trouble opening ANYTHING, just email Haley Productions. We will help - really we will.

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3 Options/Ideas for Our Hunts That Require Digital Cameras

OPTION 1: Ask those participating in the scavenger hunt to bring their digital camera for their team photos.  Almost everyone has a digital camera these days and you should be able to find one person on each team that has one.

OPTION 2: Here are some digital camera suggestions that cost less than $100 (as of 3/2008). My sources: http://reviews.cnet.com/4566-6501_7-0.html?filter=100021_9231531_&sort=lowPrice9+asc and http://cameras.about.com/od/digitalcameratoppicks/tp/under100.htm

• Fujifilm FinePix F810
• Nikon Coolpix L11 Digital Camera.
• Samsung S630 Budget Digital Camera
• VuPoint DC-WPC-ST531T-VP Budget Underwater Digital Camera
• Digital Concepts Video Camcorder and Digital Camera

Check http://www.amazon.com for the best prices and be sure to read their customer reviews; also check your local discount department stores to see what they offer (stores like Walmart can offer some pretty inexpensive cameras from what I've been told) . One of my customers reported an awful experience using http://www.ecamerafilms.com so I don’t recommend them at this time.  I love http://www.cnet.com for tech product reviews.

OPTION 3: Use cell phone cameras.

OPTION 4: You can time each section of the game so only 1 or 2 teams have a camera at a time.

Here's an example:

Part 1: 30 minutes

• Teams 1 and 2: get the picture challenges only
• Team 3 and 4: get the collection challenges only

All teams return in 25 minutes to get the next part of the game.

Part 2: 30 minutes

• Teams 3 and 4: get the picture challenges only
• Team 1 and 2: get the collection challenges only

All teams do the project and/or quiz challenges at the same time.

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