Mar 24, 2016 | Announcements, Challenge Suggestions, Weekly Hunt
This post is part of Eventzee’s collection of photo and video challenge ideas designed for scavenger hunts and interactive events. These challenges can be completed anywhere in the world and aren’t tied to a specific venue or live event, making them perfect for virtual events, hybrid experiences, global teams, and remote participants. Use these ideas for team building activities, conferences, marketing campaigns, or standalone scavenger hunts.
- #ThrowbackThursday – Share a past pic in a swimsuit.
- All Equinoxes are Not Created Equal – The Spring Equinox was March 20th, so creatively represent the astronomical event.
- Beautiful Bonnet – Get creative and make and model a spring-themed bonnet
- Caped Crusader or Dark Knight? – This week is the release of a movie depicting a battle between two pop culture icons. Choose your side and creatively represent your choice.
- Cellular City – Take a photo of your cellphone provider’s storefront.
- Crop Top – Take a photo of a newly harvested or planted crop.
- Eggscellent – Take a photo of a multicolored egg
- Fly The Coop – Take a photo of two different chicken based foods.
- Food Pyramid – Make a pyramid out of the 6 food groups. Each group must be represented.
- I Spy-P – Find the letter “P” formed in architecture, nature, etc.’
- National Puppy Day – Wednesday was National Puppy Day but every day is a good day to cuddle a puppy. Take a photo of a young dog.
- Pool Party – Take a photo of a billiards/pool table.
- Seeing Double – Find someone wearing the same colored shirt as you.
- Spring Broke – Prepare for vacation and take a photo of an airport or bus sign.
- Tracker – Find or create a unique foot (or hoof) print in the ground.
Want to turn these photo and video challenge ideas into an engaging scavenger hunt for your next event? Contact the Eventzee team to learn how our platform supports virtual, hybrid, and in-person events around the world.
https://eventzeeapp.com/contact/
Mar 23, 2016 | Hunt Tips
Scavenger hunts have always been a fun way to interact with others and support camaraderie, but we’ve moved past the limitations of pen and paper. Eventzee takes scavenger hunts to a whole new level by supporting worldwide events and new ways to interact with players. While Eventzee makes it easy to host your own scavenger hunt, it’s up to YOU to make it memorable. So if you’re considering putting on your own, here’s a few tips to get you started.
Themes can be a good way to make your Eventzee scavenger hunt more cohesive and unified for those involved. By creating clues around a common theme or subject you can encourage relevant creativity and also help your event stand out as a learning device.
Coming Up With A Theme
Themes can stem from anything involving your event or get-together. If you’re running an event for a special occasion such as a birthday party, baby shower, etc., your clues can take on those themes to encourage excitement and celebration. Hosting a birthday party for a friend? Make clues that represent your friends’ interests. Use a scavenger hunt for a wedding by hiding significant items that represent the happy couple.
If you’re running a more general event that isn’t tied directly to a specific theme, you can choose a more standard idea. Themes such as “Colors”, “Household Items”, or “Around Town” can be fun for pretty much anyone, anywhere, any time of year.
Clue Creation
With all Scavenger Hunt clues you want to make sure they are fun and engaging, while not being too specific and difficult to find. This is especially true for themed hunts as you want to maintain the goal of the theme along without becoming too abstract. When coming up with themed clues we suggest creating a web chart to help brainstorm ideas. This way you can start with your theme and expand upon ideas easily.
It’s also important to take into account that all the ideas you come up with have to be attainable in the real world as well. Since players will have to take photos of the clues in real life it has to be a somewhat attainable clue.
Examples
Here at Eventzee we encourage creativity and our awesome clients have hosted a number of themed Scavenger Hunts.
- From “12 Days of Christmas” to “Pre-Paddy’s Day”, holidays make great themes for Scavenger Hunts.
- We’ve seen teachers use literary themes like a “Hobbit Hunt” to encourage engagement in a classroom reader and “Pi Day” is always a big hit with math instructors.
- One man based a scavenger hunt around his parent’s 45th Wedding Anniversary,
Now that you have some ideas about how to start your Eventzee scavenger hunt, go out and make it happen! If you’re interested in hosting an Eventzee event, sponsoring an official Eventzee photo hunt or just curious about what we can do, check out www.eventzeeapp.com.
Mar 18, 2016 | Announcements, Eventzee Exposure, TESTIMONIALS
In “Eventzee Exposure” we look at testimonials from happy clients who have hosted their own Scavenger Hunts. Our users’ experience is very important to us, so when things go off without a hitch we want to cheer about it. If you’d be interested in sharing your Eventzee experience please reach out to eventzee@munzee.com.
Host: Troy Titans Football Club
Location: Troy, IL
Event Breakdown:
The Troy Titans football club used Eventzee for their annual fundraising scavenger hunt, turning away from traditional pencil and paper hunts. They directed teams of participants to different areas of town to participate in crazy tasks. Each team was given an inflatable “buddy” they had to include in their photos.
Testimonial:
We used Eventzee for our annual Scavenger Hunt. As the coordinator, it saved me so much time in kicking off our event. As far as all of our volunteers, it saved us a ton of time at the end of our event. In the past we have had a roomful of people checking in with their scavenger hunt items – taking time and space. Using an app completely streamlined our process and helped me keep my sanity.
Our participants loved it! They didn’t like how they couldn’t rip apart pages of clues so everyone on the team could work simultaneously, but that was the point! Everyone enjoyed sharing pictures and videos. Many of our participants could have used better lighting on their phones but I think that is something they will have to work on.
Our Scavenger Hunt is a fun event for our club. We don’t make a lot of money from the event. We just want something easy and fun. Eventzee helped us with that. The app streamlined our event, saved us time and labor, and allowed more of our participants to have a good time.
– Cindy Mahnesmith – Director of Fundraising, Troy Titans Football Club
Clue Examples:
- 12 Little Monkeys – Photo of a team member hanging upside down on monkey bars.
- America’s Got Talent – Take a picture of a teammate doing a headstand in a bar.
- Drink UP – Take a picture of entire team, including inflatable buddy, drinking from one drink (each person, including buddy, has own straw)
- Good Samaritan – Take a picture of a teammate pumping gas for someone while that person holds your inflatable.
- Just being helpful – Take a photo of at least two team members helping fold clothes in a public laundry mat.
Photo Examples:
Now that you have some ideas about how to start your Eventzee scavenger hunt, go out and make it happen! If you’re interested in hosting an Eventzee event, sponsoring an official Eventzee photo hunt or just curious about what we can do reach out to us at eventzee@munzee.com.
Mar 17, 2016 | Announcements, Challenge Suggestions, Weekly Hunt
Need inspiration for photo and video challenge ideas that work anywhere? These scavenger hunt ideas are built to spark creativity and boost engagement for participants around the globe. Since the challenges aren’t tied to a specific location or event, they’re ideal for virtual scavenger hunts, hybrid events, remote team building, and conferences. Each challenge can be adapted to fit your audience, timeline, and event goals.
- #ThrowBackThursday – Share a past pic with an animal.
- AR vs VR – Creatively represent which you prefer: Augmented Reality or Virtual Reality.
- Bracketology – It’s March Madness here in the states, so creatively represent which team you have going all the way! Don’t have a prefered team? Pick a random team in the NCAA Basketball Tournament and get creative.
- Chilly Treat – Take a photo at a unique shop that sells ice cream, snowcones, etc.
- Confetti Bomb – Gather some confetti and toss it in the air. Snap a quick pic before it all falls down!
- Counting Cards – Take a photo of a pack of collectable trading cards.
- Eclectic Appliances – Take a photo at a store that sells home appliances. Washers, ovens, etc. Your home doesn’t count.
- Googly Giggles – Put a pair of googly eyes on an inanimate object and bring it to life. Get creative!
- I Spy- O – Find the letter “O” formed in architecture, nature, etc
- I’m On A Boat – Take a photo on a boat. No boats near you? Get creative! A person must be on a boat, not just standing next to it.
- Meat Cute – Take a photo at a butcher shop or meat market.
- Shady Silouhettes – Take a photo of a person, animal or object’s silhouette.
- Sprinkled – Find something that has sprinkles on it.
- Stitchery – Take a photo of a unique quilt.
- When Life Gives You Lemons… – What do you make?
Want to turn these photo and video challenge ideas into an engaging scavenger hunt for your next event? Contact the Eventzee team to learn how our platform supports virtual, hybrid, and in-person events around the world.
https://eventzeeapp.com/contact/
Mar 16, 2016 | Hunt Tips
Scavenger hunts have always been a fun way to interact with others and support camaraderie, but we’ve moved past the limitations of pen and paper. Eventzee takes scavenger hunts to a whole new level by supporting worldwide events and new ways to interact with players. While Eventzee makes it easy to host your own scavenger hunt, it’s up to YOU to make it memorable. So if you’re considering putting on your own, here’s a few tips to get you started.
So you’ve set up your hunt, everyone has signed up and the event is about to kick off. Next thing you know hundreds of photos are flying in and you somehow have to keep up and approve them all. What to do? Luckily, Eventzee makes photo approval quick with our easy-to-use admin tools.
Dashboard
The event Dashboard is a great place to check on leaderboards, messages and submitted photos. There are direct links to player accounts, the clue list and more so you can effectively run your hunt. You can see all of the photos that come in, and approve or deny them here as well.
The Event Dashboard Page
Photo Review
Although the Dashboard is a great page to call home base for your event, we highly suggest using the Photo Review page for the actual approval process. Although you can approve from the event Dashboard, Photo Review displays the photos anonymously so there won’t be a bias when approving.
The Photo Review Page
Clue List
Sometimes it’s not so easy to memorize 20 clues word for word so we suggest having a tab open with the clue list. This way if you’re uncertain whether a photo qualifies or not
you can quickly view exactly what the clues is asking for. You can also edit clues from this page in case wording seems confusing for your players.
The Clue List Page
Clue Timeline
Happen to have more than one approver? Break approval up by clues by clicking on a particular clue. This is also where you can change whether a photo is supposed to be approved or denied in case of a mistake or a dispute. Just click on a particular clue to see the timeline of approvals and denials. To change it just click the correct icon and the image will update.
A Clue Timeline Page
Player Timeline
As you’re approving it can be easy to get into a groove and accidentally accept or decline a photo that shouldn’t be. So when a player messages you, you can go check that in that particular player’s timeline. Just click on the player’s name to access this page.
A Player Timeline Page
Hosting your own scavenger hunt can be daunting at times, but Eventzee makes it easy to create and control the event.
Remember, your event is what you make it, but Eventzee is here to make it as easy on you as possible. To get a more in depth look at setting up Eventzee hunts or how to play Eventzee check out the following guides.
Now that you have some ideas about how to start your Eventzee scavenger hunt, go out and make it happen! If you’re interested in hosting an Eventzee event, sponsoring an official Eventzee photo hunt or just curious about what we can do, contact us at eventzee@munzee.com.
