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 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.
Mar 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Eventzee’s first ever Premium Photo Scavenger Hunt has begun! The players who have joined will have until 12 PM CST on Thursday afternoon to submit all 15 clues. Per usual, no screenshots will be accepted and your photo will either be approved or denied by our admins. Thank you to everyone who joined, and good luck!
This exclusive badge has been awarded to those who joined the hunt.
- Bottoms Up! – Take a photo drinking something green.
- Crimson Curls – The Irish are known for the fiery hair so take a photo of someone with red hair.
- End of The Rainbow – Creatively represent what you would like to find at the end of the rainbow. Photo must include a rainbow.
- Flags O’ Yer Fathers – Find three distinct objects that each represent one of the colors of the Irish flag.
- Gilded – Take a photo of a gold coin.
- Green Cuisine – Prepare an Irish dish of corned beef and cabbage.
- Green Eyes of Envy – Take a photo of someone with green eyes.
- Green Getup – Let’s see those St. Patrick’s Day outfits! Take a photo wearing all green.
- Holy Trinity – Take a photo of a three leaf clover.
- Kiss Me, I’m Irish – Take a photo getting a kiss from someone with green lipstick. Be creative!
- Patrick’s Parade – Creatively represent a St. Patrick’s Day parade float.
- Pinching Pals – Take a photo pinching someone who isn’t wearing green.
- Slithering Saint – St. Patrick is said to have driven all the snakes out of Ireland so take a photo of a snake.
- The Wee People – Creatively represent the fleeting Leprechaun.
- Top O’ The Morning – Take a photo of the sunrise in the morning.
Mar 10, 2016 | Announcements, Challenge Suggestions, Weekly Hunt
Looking for engaging photo or video challenge ideas for your next event? These scavenger hunt–style challenges are designed to encourage creativity and participation and can be completed anywhere in the world. Because they aren’t tied to a specific location, venue, or live event, they work well for virtual events, hybrid experiences, conferences, and team-building activities. Use these ideas as inspiration or customize them to fit your event’s theme and engagement goals.
- #Foodie – Take a photo of what you’re eating for dinner.
- #ThrowBackThursday – Share a past pic of you making a funny face.
- Can I Have Your Autograph? – Take a picture of something signed by someone famous or important. If you don’t have anything, creativity is encouraged.
- Creepy Crawler – Take a photo of something that has more than 4 legs.
- Daylight Savings – Don’t forget to set your clocks forward on Sunday! Creatively represent Daylight Savings Time!
- EXPIRATION – Find something (food, credit card, license, etc.) that has an expired expiration date.
- I Spy- N – Find the letter “N” formed in architecture, nature, etc
- It’s In The Arches – Take a picture of a building with an archway entrance.
- Nail Art – Artistic nails are all the rage right now, so get creative! Do we mean fingernails or hammer nails? You decide!
- Next Window, Please – Take a picture at a business that has a drive-thru window.
- Soda Box Art Display – Go to a grocery store or convenience store and take a photo of an artistic display created out of stacked soda boxes.
- Some Beach – Take a picture wearing something with Hawaiian print or a tropical theme. Summer will be here before we know it!
- Topsy Turvey Tea Party – Get creative and host your own tea party. Be sure to invite all your friends- real and imaginary.
- Would You Rather… – … have more Time or Money? Creatively show your answer.
- Talk Nerdy To Me – Take a photo that represents the nerdiest part of your personality.
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 9, 2016 | Announcements, Weekly Hunt
Join our Premium Eventzee Scavenger Hunt!
Since we began our free weekend photo scavenger hunts, our staff has dedicated countless hours toward setting up and running these hunts every weekend. What initially started off as a way to interest new clients into hosting their own scavenger hunts with Eventzee has turned into something much larger. Each weekend we have hundreds of players from across the world submit thousands of photos we approve by hand- all for free.
That being said, we are excited to announce our new Premium Eventzee Photo Scavenger Hunts! Our free weekend photo hunts will continue per usual as well, but special themed hunts will be based around this premium model for the foreseeable future. For a minimal $5 fee players will get exclusive access to a themed photo scavenger hunt, a unique badge created for that hunt and a chance to win prizes from sponsors.
To kick things off we are hosting a Pre-Paddy’s Day Premium Hunt from Monday March 14 to Thursday March 17. Since this is an exclusive hunt you must sign up with payment by Sunday at 11:59 PM CST via the Munzee Inc. store.
To participate go to the following link:
http://store.munzee.com/products/eventzee-premium-hunt
Once you have paid be sure to input your Eventzee/Munzee username so you can be manually added to the exclusive hunt.
To coincide with St. Patrick’s Day the themed hunt will feature clues based around leprechauns, Irish heritage and, of course, lots of green. The top three winners for this hunt will have their choice between one of three different Munzee Inc. prize packs. The catch though is that 1st Place Winner will get first choice, Second will choose next, etc.
The prize packs are as follows:
- Munzee Prize Pack- $50 Value
- Munzee shirt
- Munzee hat
- Physical Shamrock stickers
- Wallabee Prize Pack- $50 Value
- 100k Honeycombs
- WallaBee T-Shirt
- UPDATE: 200 locks
- Eventzee Prize Pack – $50 Value
- Eventzee Shirt
- Personal Scavenger Hunt up to 25 people
- Eventzee stickers
Just for paying the $5 fee you’ll also receive this exclusive Leprechaun Photo Booth badge in celebration of Paddy’s and Photos!
