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OPERATION OUR TOWN scavenger hunt. This is an outdoor walking or driving scavenger hunt suitable for any area with shops and businesses (including malls). 

A note about doing this hunt in a mall: Some folks have told us that their local mall considered the scavenger hunt an "event" and it was therefore prohibited; others have told us that picture taking is not allowed. To be on the safe side, check with the mall before showing up to do this hunt.

EXAMPLES: Our Town hunt challenges include pictures (15), find items (12), a fun and creative project and a final team presentation (optional).

1. Collect an unusual, clever or creative item.
2. Have your most artistic team member collaborate with someone you've never met to draw a picture (you can customize this. Example: Draw a picture representing team work). Take a photograph them in action.
3. Take a picture of 3 of your team members with a construction worker. You must be in the classic Village People "YMCA" pose.

OPERATION WHEN NATURE CALLS scavenger hunt. This is an outdoor walking scavenger hunt suitable for a medium to large park or recreation area (it was originally designed for a state park).

EXAMPLES: When Nature Calls hunt challenges include pictures (18), find items (14), a little quiz (3 questions), projects (3) and a final team presentation.

1. A cool looking rock containing at least 5 distinct colors.
2. Have your most artistic team member collaborate with someone you've never met to draw a picture of nature. Take a photograph of them in action.
3. Take a picture of the team member who was born the furthest away from here hugging a tree. All other team members must be in the shot arranged in a pattern of some sort (tallest to shortest for example).

HOW THESE HUNTS WORK:  Your group will be divided into teams of up to 10 people (minimum of 3 or 4). Each team will receive a collection bag containing a digital camera, hunt instructions, their challenge sheet and various supplies. The teams will then embark on the adventure hunt, taking pictures, obtaining specific items and completing various projects - all worth valuable points. There will be team meets where team members will move to other teams and additional challenges will be given to everyone. To customize the hunt, you can easily add additional items, pictures and projects to the list. At the conclusion of the hunt, the teams will present a creative and inspiring debriefing of their team effort (or you can "grade" their clue sheets to find the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners). You can easily edit our scavenger hunts - use our teambuilding ideas to build your own customized one.

IMPORTANT: These hunts are NOT riddle hunts with clues that need to be deciphered to lead your teams from location to location.

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OPERATION CITY SLICKERS SCAVENGER HUNT (also known as OPERATION OUR TOWN PART 2). This is an outdoor walking or driving scavenger hunt suitable for a downtown or Main Street location - any area with shops and businesses. Operation Our Town was so popular we had to create a follow up.

HOW IT WORKS: Your group will be divided into teams of up to 10 people. Each team will receive a collection bag containing a digital camera, hunt instructions, their challenge sheet and various supplies. The teams will then embark on the scavenger hunt, taking pictures, obtaining specific items, solving brainteasers and completing a trivia quiz (not location specific) - all worth valuable points. There will be team meets where team members will move to other teams and additional challenges will be given to everyone. To customize the hunt, you can easily add additional items, pictures and projects to the list. At the conclusion of the hunt, the teams will present a creative and inspiring debriefing of their team effort (or you can "grade" their clue sheets to find the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners). You can easily edit our scavenger hunts - use our teambuilding ideas to build your own customized one.

EXAMPLES: Scavenger hunt challenges are broken down into the following categories: 16 picture challenges, 20 collection challenges, a mini trivia quiz (5 questions) and 5 brainteasers - trivia and brainteasers are not location specific - to solve in exchange for play money.

1. Take a picture of your entire team looking like bored teenagers copping an attitude in front of a place you’d think teens would absolutely hate. Where are you and why did you select this place?
2. What’s the cellular message? That’s it. You’ll know it when you get it; IF you get it. Be prepared. (More details on how to set this up are included in the hunt.)
3. Collect some dog or cat kibble (worth 500 points); collect a bobby pin (worth 100 points).

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So which scavenger hunt game should you select, Operation Our Town or Operation City Slickers?

OPERATION WHEN TIME FLIES SCAVENGER HUNT. A timed scavenger hunt suitable for your office complex* or you can take it out on the town.  Picture challenges, word search/find items challenge, bonus challenge and final team projects. *Not recommended for a one-room office; it's preferable if you have a whole building and even outside areas to work with just to give your teams more options and to make sure they're not getting in each other's way. This will also work in an area with shops and businesses.

HOW IT WORKS: Your group will be divided into teams of up to 10 people (minimum of 3 or 4 to a team). This hunt is a timed hunt broken down into 2 timed challenges*: Photo Ops and Find Items** (with a bonus challenge thrown in for good measure).  Your teams will have 45 minutes to complete part 1. They will then report to your organizer to get part 2. The teams will then be given another 45 minutes to complete part 2. There will be team meets where team members will move to other teams and additional challenges will be given to everyone. To customize the hunt, you can easily add additional items, pictures and projects to the list - whatever you need/want to do to make it best suit your needs. At the conclusion of the hunt, the teams will do a final project - we provide several different projects to choose from (or you can “grade” their clue sheets to find the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners).

*OPTION: You don’t need to time each challenge section.  Just give the teams this entire hunt and 1 ½ to 1 3/4 hours IN TOTAL to complete it.

**The teams will have a selection of picture challenges to choose from; their goal is to take 8 great photos for the highest number of points possible). They'll also need to obtain specific items which they'll find by solving a word search puzzle - these are also worth valuable points. There's also an additional bonus challenge for them to complete.

EXAMPLES:

1. Take a picture of your funniest team member creatively using a flashlight or a plunger. POINT VALUE: 500.
2. Interpretive Photo (the teams will create a photo that pictorially represents a nonsensical or silly statement. They have a whole list to choose from.) Example: This little piggy went to market; this little piggy stayed home; this little piggy ate roast beef; this little piggy had a really bad itch. VALUE: 2,000 POINTS.
3. The teams will solve a word search of 20 hidden items; they'll need to then find 10 of those items. Example: aspirin. VALUE: 100 POINTS PER ITEM.

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OPERATION RECOVERY SCAVENGER HUNT. This is a ‘find items’ scavenger hunt as well as a covert operative type adventure, complete with undercover agent(s), retrieval objectives and secret codes to decipher. Outdoor, walking or driving hunt. Requires a location with stores and businesses.

HOW IT WORKS: Your group will be divided into teams of up to 10 people. Each team will receive a collection bag, a collections list comprised of about 80 items (each item is given a point value depending on the degree of difficulty in obtaining said item) and part one of the covert mission called Mission: Cloak and Dagger. The teams will then embark on the adventure hunt. During the hunt, they’ll need to meet with undercover operative(s) - usually your facilitator(s) - to receive additional Mission Cloak and Dagger objectives. Their ultimate goal in Cloak and Dagger is to collect pieces of a coded map and decipher it. There will also be team meets where team members will move to other teams and additional challenges will be given to everyone. At the conclusion of the hunt, the teams will present a creative and inspiring debriefing of their team effort (or you can "grade" their clue sheets to find the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners). You can easily edit our scavenger hunts - use our teambuilding ideas to build your own customized one.

Item List – Collection Examples.

All our hunts are formatted in Microsoft Word which means you can EASILY edit them to personalize the hunt for your event. For example, 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. So instead of "Take a picture of your most dramatic team member with someone famous" you can edit the challenge to "Take a picture of your most dramatic team member doing something dramatic in front of the oldest casino in Las Vegas".

LENGTH OF ALL SCAVENGER HUNTS: 2 - 4+ hours, depending on the size of your group: 10 minutes for opening instructions, warm up game and team organization; 1 1/2 - 2 hours for the hunt and about 1/2 hour (or more) for grading, team presentations, awards and optional team assessment discussion (timing largely depends on the number of teams: the more teams, the more time you should allow).

PRE-HUNT PREP TIME: For up to 6 teams, you can put our scavenger hunts together in about 6 to 8 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 shop for team prizes and digital cameras as well as other inexpensive supplies like clipboards, bribe items and such. Our facilitator guide provides a supply checklist for you.

TEAM OBJECTIVE: Form an efficient and effective team that communicates well, works by consensus and has a definite plan of action to complete this adventure hunt.

THIS IS WHAT THE TEAMS WILL BE MEASURED ON:

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