Nikki, I have made three different treasure hunts and they all went great! It was my step daughter?s birthday last weekend and her, my nephew and some neighbor kids went running around the house from clue to clue. They had a lot of fun. I will be using it in the future! Thank you for everything.
Rachel Hanna, Wyoming USA
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Dear Nikki,
Yes, we played the Instant Treasure Hunt twice with a group of 10 year olds. They were so smart that they breezed through most of the clues, but they enjoyed it!
Thanks for the fun!
Amy Paikuli, Hawaii USA
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Nikki,
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
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Dear Nikki,
You're the best. I am all fired up now. I have been doing this for years and it has to be better each year. That becomes daunting. I love your ideas for our Scavenger Hunt.
Your fan
Ida Peterson, Washington USA
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Hi Nikki,
We had the scavenger hunt around town. It was a lot of fun. Thanks for the tips to prepare the scavenger hunt. It set me in the right direction to personalize the hunt for our town.
Sandra Alexander, Florida USA
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Hi Nikki, we completed the treasure hunt on Saturday. I modified the game to suit the venue and the crowd as we had 15 teams participating in the hunt. Contestants had a fun time. I will be fine tuning the game mechanics to cater for a team building crowd for January.
Vivien Hoe, Singapore
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We had our treasure hunt Sat night. It was great. The students enjoyed it and so did the adults that were working the different stations. I was so relieved to have something already complete and ready to use. It was user friendly. We changed the font and copied it onto brown aged paper and it looked so real. We had middle school age and college age. They all enjoyed it. We had the stations set up among a pirate town and they had to go through the town to complete. We used it to eliminate the teams to two and the two completed a treasure hunt that was extra. Thank you for such a good product.
Pam Bennett, Tennessee USA
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I am planning a treasure hunt for our youth group of approx 15 teenagers in a church hall.
Carol Caven, UK
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The treasure hunt is done and the kids had fun. Your suggestions were very good and I think we will do another treasure hunt in the future with our other kids.
Thanks
Toni Hudson, Texas USA
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It was last weekend and I got some compliments on it. I used some of your ideas and also incorporated some landmarks of the camp we were in and everyone seemed to have a good time.
We had a Scavenger hunt around our Scout camp. I incorporated finding things with facts about camp so the kids had to visit various areas of camp they may not usually visit. They seemed to have a good time with it. It wasn't the only activity - it was part of a full day of activities. I will be using your ideas for our Cub Scout summer camp as I am Camp Director.
MaryAnne McFarland, New Jersey USA
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Hi Nikki,
I have just started to go through the manual. I'm not in a hurry. I plan to do the treasure hunt somewhere between now and the end of March.
I'm planning to do the treasure for my two boys because I have 2 tickets for Disneyland and I want to give the tickets to them in a special, fun way.
They don't know anything yet about the Disney trip. I would like to create special memories for the trip and I thought that including a treasure hunt to start with would be a good idea.
I will keep you updated on how it goes, I might have some questions for you though in the near future, I've never put a treasure hunt together before, but I do believe it will be a lot of fun for all of us....
Kind Regards,
Joke De Frenne, Idaho USA
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Our treasure hunt is in Kansas, a birthday party with guests ranging from 4 - 14 yrs. We will be having a pirate theme
Selena Varady, Kansas USA
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Hey Nikki,
I am doing a photo scavenger hunt for my team that is going to Germany over Spring Break to work with youth on American Military Bases in foreign countries.
I thought it would be fun to throw a party, team bonding idea before we go. We are seniors from Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles. I think we are going to have a lot of fun thanks!
David Jauregui, California USA
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The treasure hunt party will take place in Concord, NC. next weekend, Saturday, October 15th at 6pm.
It is going to be a costume Halloween party.
The party is for my 12 year old sister and about 15 of her friends so they will range in age from 11-13. It will be a girl/boy party. Most every girl that will be attending plays softball so they are all tomboys.
Suzanne Long, North Carolina USA
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Hello! I received the download without problems. I am using your guidelines to create a party treasure hunt . We are in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, the party is for my daughter's 8th birthday.
I am modifying the play (at each station the teams will get a piece of the map that will lead them to the final treasure chest), but think I will use the ideas over again for many parties in the future! I'll let you know how things work out--we're expecting about 20-25 kids, mostly between 5 and 9 yr. old., near the end of this month. Thanks!
Kim Buchannan, New York USA
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Hi Nikki
My Scavenger Hunt is not until June 23 But the stuff that you sent me has been such a great help so far in organizing the event. Everyone here can not wait to participate. I have a waiting list started . I am sure that this will not be the last hunt that I organize. I just wish that I could
take part.
Maybe I will be a fifth wheel in one of the teams just to see how everything went. Will let you know the results after June 23 Thank you for your interest and I shall recommend you to anyone whom asks.
Kelly LaPorte, Ontario Canada
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We had the party I used the treasure hunt party planner as a guide. I only had one team and had the girls work together. I set up six challenges (using your ideas as guides) the challenges were building a tower out of cups, building a pyramid out of people, writing a birthday limerick, singing a song, perform a play/skit and scramble puzzle. The girls had a great time and worked together. Thanks
Lisa Esten, Massachusetts USA
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Dear Nikki:
I've downloaded the planner and at first glance, it looks like there are lots of ideas that will work for our event after I tailor them to our needs.
Every July our church puts on a camp called, 'Summer Hummer'. Ages 4- 5 stay only half a day, and each day I need to develop a new treasure hunt because the same children repeat the activities every day.
Ages 6 to 14 stay all day and the treasure hunt will be an activity the age groups participate in once. The groups are divided up, such as: ages 6-7 is one group, ages 8-9 is another, etc. All together there will be close to 900 kids! Wow, that takes my breath away. It's really a blast, kids have a ball and so do the counselors. About 300 counselors participate. There's craft people, snack people, story tellers, water slides, zip lines, luge racers, all sorts of field games: soccer, races, etc.
A theme is established by a company called Gospel Lights where we purchase the course. This year's course is 'Sonforce Kids'. During the week we emphasize a different element of the course. Monday is Trust, based on Exodus 1-2:10: Moses: Boy in a basket.
Tuesday is Unite, based on Esther 2-8: Esther: Queen at risk. Wednesday is Train, based on Daniel 1: Daniel: Servant of God. Thursday is Follow, based on Jeremiah 36-39: Jeremiah: Prophet in trouble. Friday is Lead, based on Numbers 13-14:9: Joshua: Spy in a strange land.
The setting is on a space station full of adventure and high drama leading the children to make good decisions based on the day's Bible stories. I'm going to attempt to fashion clues and puzzles with a space theme.
I'll have some help during the treasure hunt itself, but it will be up to me to figure out all the details and logistics of the hunt. It should be great! Thanks for all you do, you've given me some confidence and the beginning of some ideas to pull this off. I'll keep you posted.
Regards,
Patty Pynch, Washington USA
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Hi Nikki, Thanks for the Treasure Hunt. My son's 8th birthday party was great. All the kids loved the hunt and the last clue was a treasure map that lead to a buried treasure. They all were running around like crazy. My son still talks about it a week later. He wants to do it again next year.
My daughter is having her 16th birthday in November, I am planning to make a treasure hunt for her party.
Denise Feldle, New York USA
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Hi Nikki. I had hoped to get most of the planning done today, but alas, other chores kept us busy today! Well ... that and the great weather!
I'm going to work on it over the next 2 days. I have a few different places I am thinking for burying the treasure. There is a corner spot in our backyard where the grass has died, so I thought that might be a good place. Or, in the front garden.
The party is for younger girls. The oldest will be 8; and I have 2 6 year olds playing. I thought I would draw a fairly simple map - that would probably be easier than a clue I think.
My niece, who is 15, really wants to help me plan everything out. We're going to start tomorrow. I have a gold coloured cake tin that I'm going to use as the 'treasure box' - we're just going to decorate it up a bit more. Once we start the planning, I may have some questions. If I do, I will certainly e-mail you.
I'll also let you know how it all went. I think it is a GREAT idea and my daughter is very excited about it.
Thanks for writing,
Karen
Karen Hayward, Ontario, Canada
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Nikki,
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
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Hi, in the early stages of planning at the moment - finding a venue etc. Probably will be a country hotel with its own grounds with a mix of terrain. Am hoping to incorporate some things such as blindfold driving through an obstacle course etc
Possibly the Lake District, Grasmere, Cumbria, UK In March. For my 50th birthday - but I will get great pleasure out of organising this event!!!
Guests age range is 9yrs - 71
I have enjoyed reading the treasure hunt party game planner, a great inspiration!
Sue Shuttleworth, Lancashire UK
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Nikki,
It was a huge success!!! Never thought a bunch of 17 year old soccer players could love something so much- We are at our Regional Championships and playing in the final tomorrow so something must have worked! Will send a picture when I get home
Patty Seitz, New Jersey USA
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Our treasure hunt takes place in Indiana on July 15. It is a party for church staff leadership and their families. Guests range in age from 6 months to 65 years!
I love your ebook so far. No questions yet, but I won't hesitate to e-mail if questions come up.
Kim Bickel, Indiana USA
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Thank you the email. It's nice to see an individual is associated with this purchase.
The party is taking place in Texas, USA.
The party will be September 9.
The party will be a birthday party for my son-in-law and husband.
The age range will be child to adult.
The theme is 'Treasure Hunt'.
I've read through the planner today and will begin the planning process tomorrow.
Talk to you later.
Angie Pavlcek, Texas USA
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We had (2) treasure hunt parties with different groups of kids, one baseball and one basketball. I will email you a couple of pictures when I get them back. thanks for the follow-up - good riddles...even the other mothers think I am great...little do they know!
Donna Hal, Kentucky USA
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Nikki -- I adapted the instant treasure hunt for a church building and grounds setting. I had a family night with a dinner, and the after dinner entertainment was the treasure hunt. The parents and kids loved it! It was a BIG hit! After the treasure hunt, I gave my lesson which is that the Bible is full of 'clues' that lead us to the greatest treasure of all -- Jesus. Wish I had some pictures to send, but forgot to bring my camera. I was not sure this would go over well, but the treasure hunt was one of the most successful activities I have ever done with the kids.
Joana Jones, Indiana USA
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Hello Nikki, Just wanted to say how much we enjoyed our Easter Egg Hunt today. Followed your instructions and the children loved it.
I now have all sorts of ideas for future parties. Your ideas were simple, common sense, but I never would have thought of them. Well worth the $29.
Sue Ashworth, Buckinghamshire UK
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We had a wonderful treasure hunt. The adults and kids both had a great time. It took 40 minutes for them to complete it. Thanks for your interest and I will be making more treasure hunts in the near future.
Dawn Pinson, Ontario Canada
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I have been searching the internet for ideas for my Mothers 50th birthday....I thought this might be a fun way to celebrate.... we love to dance, drink some and are wild!
Christyl Seymour,
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Hi Nikki,
Thanks for all the information and ideas. My son (8y.o.) had his party here yesterday and it went beautifully. I was pleasantly surprised that it took them an hour to do the treasure hunt - I thought they would race through. There were ten boys and they are very sporting and competitive, so this appealed to their competitive nature but took the sporting bit out of it, which was what I wanted.
Thank you for all your help. I am doing the Easter party at school for the children I teach - 5 year olds - adapted a bit as there will be a lot of them. I am also doing it for my nieces and nephews in Australia when we visit them at Easter.
Naomi Gist, Hong Kong China
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Nikki,
The party was a big success! Had 4 teams of 7-8 girls ages 12-13. The 'bigger or better' scavenger hunt theme was great. Each team kept each item obtained and in the end all the teams voted for the winning team. The big items obtained were an end table/chair, box spring, computer/scanner/printer, paintings, swimming pool.
It was fun watching the teams coming down the street trying to carry all their items before the deadline. The winners received $10 each and everyone else could take home any of the collected items they so desired. They worked up their appetites and enjoyed the taco bar. Fun was had by all! Thanks again.
Allan Luistro, North Dakota USA
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It worked out well for our ecumenical church congregational life day here in the Whistler mountains of British Columbia. I even adapted the stations to be various spot where St Paul journeyed on his travels - and it was all well received by everyone of all ages. The treasure was our birthday cake and ice cream - after the build up I think the kids wanted more.
Thanks again for making it available online.
William Roberts, British Colombia Canada
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Dear Nikki, just wanted to let you know we used your treasure hunt at a party yesterday and it was a big hit. There were twenty ten year olds and we put them in five teams which was great. It all went well and it really was enjoyed. I was happy with the product and would do it again. Thanks.
Monica Eskin, New York USA
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I am the Camp Director for a Girl Scout Day Camp. Our theme this year is 'Treasure Grove'. We plan to use various activities throughout the week referencing this theme.
We anticipate about 150 people, divided into groups of 12-18.
Cindy Trout, Ohio, USA
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Ms. 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
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Hello Nikki -
I have had a chance to look over the treasure hunt info. I love this!! I am going on a Christian women's retreat in Pigeon Forge, TN towards the end of March and wanted to come up with a fun idea. We don't have a particular theme at this point so it will not really matter what theme we use for the clues, stations, etc. Age group is from late 20's to early 50's. I understand all of the info. pretty well the only thing I could not find was one of the bonus's. I am looking for the ebook on your favorite 10 games.
Talk with you soon! Tina Franklin
Tina Franklin, North Carolina USA
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Nikki
I have read through the planner and have started coming up with ideas.
The party will be held at the Mall of America, Bloomington MN with 6 - 12year olds- 2 teams of 3. I have purchased t-shirts for all of them to wear so that people will know that they are playing a game. I'm having difficulty trying to judge how many things I need to have them play for
two hours. Any ideas on that would be of great help.
I really want to do a variety of things, like riddles, so one that I have come up with is, picture in front of the store that 'every athletic team has' answer Coach. But of course they have to figure it out. I'm doing a lot of hunt and find with pictures but I haven't come up with anything to exciting for them to actually look for. I am using your ideas on perfume card, cellular phone brochure but those are pretty easy. I have a couple of weeks until the party so maybe I can come up with more ideas.
If you have other obscure items to find, let me know because I'd like to challenge them.
Thank you.
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Hi Gina
It is always difficult to judge just how long things will take, as what you think is hard they will do quickly and what you believe to be easy will stump them for ages!! (Just the way it goes...). So I suggest that you have way too many items on your list and a strict time limit (penalties for being late back). That way they will do as much as they can and no one is expected to do everything.
To challenge them a little, give them some photo challenges or tasks to be completed. You can always give extra point for tasks so that they are encouraged to do them, rather than just stick to the easy stuff.
Best Wishes
Nikki
Gina Matschi, Minnesota USA
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Hi Nikki
Yes indeed , we have just completed the treasure hunt on Saturday. I have modify the game to suit the venue and the crowd as we had 15 teams participating in the hunt. Contestants had a fun time . I will be fine tuning the game mechanics to cater for a team building crowd for January
2007.
Will update you later
Vivien Hoe, Singapore
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Dear Nikki,
The treasure hunt was a great success. The children enjoyed themselves from beginning to end and for the first time nobody squabbled! The layout is very clear and nobody had any trouble following it. I bought a little treasure chest for next to nothing and filled it with chocolate pennies. At the end several of the kids said that my parties were always the best so please take all the credit! Do you have any other party suggestions? Many thanks for a great day
Ann Germain-Hansford, St Marcellin France
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Once we got the treasure hunt started, it went pretty smoothly. I had teams of one adult and one kid, and I mixed them up, so usually the parent didn't get their own kid. I thought that would help the neighbors get to know other people's kids a little better. Everyone had lots of fun and much laughter was heard. The only thing I regret is not having it all in the same room, because some of the tasks were quite funny! The tasks were a bit of a challenge because I had to configure them so that all can participate (we had ages from 2 to 54). So some tasks were better done by the small kids and some tasks were better done by the adults. All in all, I was very pleased and am looking forward to planning my a treasure hunt for my daughter's birthday party in two weeks, which means I better get cracking now!
Thank you very much, that was $30 well spent.
Terri Harmon, Illinois USA
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Hi Nikki
We used the instant treasure hunt outdoors for My Daughters 8th Birthday Party - I used the 5-7year old hints and they were perfect
Thanks
Richard Rude, Connecticut USA
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The task was a bit more daunting than I thought it would be. I ordered your treasure hunt planner on Wednesday and my party was Friday. I pulled it off. The kids had a great time. Thank you for your help, had a blast.
Sylvia Rich, California USA
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Had the party! Ran the treasure hunt - and our guests had a GREAT time! Still getting comments about it! Sorry I don't have any photos... the 'mummy' wrap was hilarious!
Happy Holidays
Gary Locke, California USA
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Hi 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
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Hi Nikko :)
Guess what? I got the treasure hunt to work after all :) I was just trying to open it the wrong way. Once I 'saved' it first and then opened it, everything was fine. I am sorry to have bothered you. My children had a WONDERFUL time on their hunt! I will use this fun activity time and time again :)
Rees Wiscombe, Utah USA
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My son's 10th birthday party was a smashing success thanks in part to your wonderful treasure hunt ideas with the pirate theme...Thank you!
Stacie Choy, Surrey United Kingdom
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Hi Nikki, I did log on and enjoyed the clues. What a time saver. Can't wait to play around with it some more. So many wonderful combinations.....
Trish Nickerson, New Mexico USA
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We did 2 treasure hunts on Christmas Eve which went down really well.
We did one for the younger kids inside. The one for the older kids we did outside and they loved it.
We kept them entertained doing this for more than an hour and they loved trying to work out the clues. Surprisingly, 5 boys aged between 5 and 9 all worked together to solve the clues
Susanne Hewson, Texas USA
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It was AWESOME! Thanks so much, everyone loved it! It was great, I loved it!
Theresa Truong, Texas USA
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