Jan 22, 2016 | Announcements, 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.
Although Eventzee is great for conferences, get-togethers and training sessions, scavenger hunts can also be great for long term marketing, loyalty programs and more. Whether you want to set up a historical tour in your hometown, partner with other businesses for a discount program or simply offer an ongoing activity for customers, we’ve got you covered.
Long term scavenger hunts, often taking place over a month or throughout a season, can require a bit more setup and upkeep. If you choose to use a scavenger hunt for long term use, here are a couple things to consider when setting the hunt up.
Who?
Is this an educational hunt for young adults to learn more about their environment? Is it a joint pub crawl between various bars in your area? As with all marketing it’s important to know which demographic you are aiming for and plan accordingly. If your intent is to educate children, then they will need their parents’ devices to play. If this is more of a long running social engagement for young adults, you will need to advertise in the correct places. Knowing your audience will not only help when marketing, but can also be vital to your planning process.
What?
Eventzee has a wide variety of features that can be useful in long term hunts. QR Codes can be tied to quizzes or messages so that upon scanning players can learn about the history of a business, trivia, etc. You can also tag each of your QR clues to a GPS location to view a map of all locations within the hunt. Photo clues are fun, but with long term hunts you might want to make use of Eventzee’s automatic approval feature so you don’t have a monthlong backlog of photos to approve. A long term photo hunt could also make use of gallery slideshows for a fun collection of customer photos to be displayed on a monitor.
When?
The length of your scavenger hunt depends on what you hope to accomplish. If you want to encourage customers to come back weekly or daily to take part in new clues, then you will need to keep the hunt accessible during store hours only. If you want to host a historical tour of buildings, you will need to have the QR codes displayed in a easy to find public area so people can play at anytime of day. You also don’t want a hunt to last too long and risk losing interest of players so remember to keep things fresh.
Where?
Long term hunts can be used in a variety of ways, most commonly these types of hunts use multiple locations around your town or city. This is beneficial especially for tourism groups or community outreach organizations to drive traffic to significant areas. Groups of small businesses looking to support one another can also make great use of Eventzee to drive customers to shopping areas by offering discounts to people playing the scavenger hunt. A single business could also find benefit from a long term hunt by releasing new clues at different days to encourage repeat business.
Why?
Sure, it seems like a simple enough question, but why exactly do you want to host a long term event over a quick one or two day event? What are you hoping to accomplish? It’s important to figure out why a long term hunt would be ideal so you know what your end goal is. If you want to build business loyalty then your clues need to reflect that. If you want to use Eventzee as a tool for gathering marketing and social media materials like photos, then plan out the photos you ideally want and implement them in your clue descriptions. We want you to make the most of our product, so it’s important that we help you achieve your goals in the most successful way possible.
How?
How can you go about setting up your own longterm scavenger hunt? That’s the easy part. Contact us today! We can answer more of your questions, set you up with a demo and more. Email us at eventzee@munzee.com to find out more.
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.
Jan 14, 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 doing something outside. Camping, fishing, hunting, etc.
- Animal Crossing – Deers, bears and unicorns, Oh My. Take a photo of an animal crossing sign.
- Cake Couture – Take a photo wearing an apron. The more unique the better.
- Do Unto Others… – Take a photo outside of a non-profit organization/charity.
- Dressed To The K-9s – Thursday is National Dress Your Pet Up Day so let’s see those dapper dogs, stylin’ snakes and more. Don’t have a pet? Get creative.
- Game Day Gear – Take a photo wearing a sports jersey.
- I Spy- H – Find the letter “H” formed in architecture, nature, etc.
- Imitation Station – Creatively recreate a well known work of art. These submissions may be used in official Eventzee marketing materials, so submit a good quality photo!
- Just Deserts – If you were stranded on a desert island and could only bring one item what would it be?
- People In Glass Houses – Take a photo at a greenhouse.
- Riddle Me This – Solve the riddle and take a pic of the answer: “We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day. What is it?”
- Space Oddity – Creatively represent Ziggy Stardust himself, David Bowie.
- Winner, Winner – Creatively represent what you would do if you won the lottery.
- You Are What You Eat – Take a photo of a health food store.
- Zodiac – Creatively express the astrological sign for late December and early January.
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/
Jan 13, 2016 | Announcements, Hunt Types
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.
While photo hunts are totally fun and encourage social interaction, QR Code scavenger hunts can be used in a number of educational ways. When hosting your own hunt you may choose to use QR clues, which can be converted into a quiz or a GPS clue as well. GPS clues are especially handy if your hunt is throughout a city or campus with distinct locations.
Topographical Tourists
Eventzee GPS Hunts are great for showcasing unique and unknown parts of your town or city. Whether it’s historically important locations or simply a map of local restaurants, adding GPS coordinates to a clue is a fun way to get players exploring the places around them. Each clue’s location also shows up on the Eventzee map so it’s perfect for tours of all sorts.
We’ve Got Spirit How About You?
It’s not easy to get around campus your freshman year, but an Eventzee GPS hunt can be a fun way to help educate new students about their surroundings. Map out financial buildings, sports complexes and more important locations for your campus. You can even attach quiz questions to each location to test new students knowledge about the history of each building.
Late Night Latitude
Planning a night out? Pub crawls are a great social activity that double as a way of exploring a city’s unique nightlife locations. Get a group together and schedule out your whole night with Eventzee. Check in at each bar with GPS clues, then include fun photo clues to make the night unforgettable.
Creating Your GPS Hunt
Setting up GPS clues is easy. When you’re first creating your hunt you simply make sure the hunt is “Geolocation Based.” From there you’ll just add clues like normal with a clue name and description.
To set the GPS coordinates for an individual clue you’ll click on the gear icon to access the clue’s settings. There you can either search for the location or add the exact coordinates yourself. Then whenever you’re ready, just place the QR codes at each location.
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.
Jan 7, 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 of your parents.
- Bounce House – Whether it’s your bed, a trampoline or a pogo stick- let’s see you hop.
- Brothers Grimm – Creatively represent one of the Grimm fairy tales.
- Fast and The Furious – Creatively represent racing a car. We highly insist that you not actually race though.
- I Spy- G – Find the letter “G” formed in architecture, nature, etc.
- Jury Duty – Take a photo outside of a courthouse.
- Mad Hatter – Take a photo of a distinctive hat. The crazier the better.
- Mallrats – Take a photo at a shopping mall.
- Nothing In Life Is Free – Find a sign in public with the word “FREE” in it.
- On This Day In History… – Creatively represent a historically significant event that happened on a day this weekend. Be sure to have the date and the fact written down somewhere in the photo.
- Quad Stop – Take a photo of a 4-way intersection. As always, be safe and don’t take photos driving.
- Riddle Me This – Solve the riddle and take a pic of the answer: “What Am I? I sit on a bridge. Some people will look through me, while others wonder what I hide. What am I?”
- Shop ‘Til You Drop – Take a photo of what is in your shopping cart.
- Would You Rather… – Would you rather be able to talk with the animals or speak all foreign languages? Creatively represent your answer.
- Junk Drawer- Everybody has that one drawer in their house that collects various odd items. Take a picture of yours!
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/
Jan 6, 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.
Eventzee makes hosting scavenger hunts easy- but that’s not to say there’s no prep work involved. When hosting an Eventzee event it’s important to keep your players informed and updated on how to play. Whether you’re hosting a get-together with your family or setting up a training session for your staff retreat, the more prep work the better.
Hunt Set-Up
Once you’ve been granted Admin access and created your event, Eventzee makes it easy to schedule clues ahead of time to go live at any point. It’s important to create and input your clues beforehand so you have a chance to make sure everything is ready the day of. There’s nothing worse than trying to juggle a dozen different duties on the day of an event, so don’t be afraid to let Eventzee go on autopilot a bit.
Download The App
Be sure to have everyone involved in the hunt download Eventzee to their smartphones. The free app can be found in the App store for iOS devices and the Google Play store for Androids. It’s best to have players download the app beforehand so they can sign up and not have to wait on the download on the day of the hunt. This will also be important as you share your event’s join code…
Join The Hunt
Once your players have downloaded the app they’ll need to create an account to play. They just need to open the app, sign-up for a free account, and create a username and password. Once they’ve signed in they just need to scan the QR code the admin has been given to join. This code can be found in the “QR CODES” section of the admin home page. Again, these are all things we suggest having players do in preparation of your event.
CLICK HERE for the template for the Join Code Flyer.
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.
