Step 4And now to setting the trail. This is the fun part and your chance to be as creative as possible. A few ideas are featured below:
If you can manage to persuade a couple of accomplices to help out, then asking someone who can be relied on to be at a certain place, at a certain time to hold a clue, is a great way to add some excitement to the proceedings. Shop owners, paper boys or even the vicar at your local church are all great prospective accomplices
You could start your hunt by positioning the first clue somewhere where you know one of the players will spot it. It could be stuck to the back of a cereal packet or written on the bathroom mirror in Vaseline just before you know one of the players is going to take a shower
If you’re playing near a beach or a riverside one idea is to paint a clue on the bottom of a stone (using waterproof or acrylic paint), meaning the hunters have to turn over endless rocks and stones to find the next instruction
If you’re any good at origami and are laying a trail that will take you through some garden blooms you can re-create a flower out of paper with the clue hidden on it and strategically position this amongst the real McCoys
You could also hang a clue in an unusual place such as from a bridge or up in a tree
If the children are good with a compass and an OS map then you could plan your hunt using ordinance survey coordinates, combined with a cryptic clue