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For something I basically threw together in a couple of hours (counting the half hour I spent coming up with twenty rhyming couplets for clues) the Valentine scavenger hunt was a smashing success, and earned me a half hour of watching ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cell23 and the kids figuring out the clues together and then tearing around the house at warp speed once they had, leaving a trail of paper clues and envelopes in their wake.
This was not the first time I'd put together one of these for them - a few years ago I did a smaller one where each clue contained a puzzle piece - the combined puzzle was a picture of where they were going that day. They loved the hell out of that one and bugged me for another one for a while. I keep underestimating their ability to figure things out, as they blew through this one in a half hour, but they didn't seem to mind, especially given the raucous amount of candy in the offering.
I do love setting up scavenger hunts though.* Someday when I have time and an actual testing platform, I'll finish writing/programming SQWRRL - the ARG I started a year or so ago. I've been thinking about the characters and mechanics of that again lately, but man do I not have time to deal with that right now.
Only Tangentially related - I wish someone had told me stickers have a "Use By" date back when I was still rabidly collecting them. I still haul out my old Stickapotamus collection for things like this, but some of them are so old (think 10+ years) that they've either completely fused to their paper backing or have no stick left at all. Not that I need anything else to spend money on, but maybe I should think about refreshing my collection a bit.
Today's going to be low key - kiddos, beading, maybe rebraiding my hair (winter has not been kind to it) and/or also maybe getting a little more work done on my website so I can actually, you know. Reopen it.
* interestingly enough I'm not so big on the actual "hunt" part of things, mostly because I get easily frustrated if I can't figure out the clues instantly. Exception being letterboxing - one of the things I'd like to do once smartphoned up is take that up again. built in compass and GPS for the win.
cell23 and the kids figuring out the clues together and then tearing around the house at warp speed once they had, leaving a trail of paper clues and envelopes in their wake.This was not the first time I'd put together one of these for them - a few years ago I did a smaller one where each clue contained a puzzle piece - the combined puzzle was a picture of where they were going that day. They loved the hell out of that one and bugged me for another one for a while. I keep underestimating their ability to figure things out, as they blew through this one in a half hour, but they didn't seem to mind, especially given the raucous amount of candy in the offering.
I do love setting up scavenger hunts though.* Someday when I have time and an actual testing platform, I'll finish writing/programming SQWRRL - the ARG I started a year or so ago. I've been thinking about the characters and mechanics of that again lately, but man do I not have time to deal with that right now.
Only Tangentially related - I wish someone had told me stickers have a "Use By" date back when I was still rabidly collecting them. I still haul out my old Stickapotamus collection for things like this, but some of them are so old (think 10+ years) that they've either completely fused to their paper backing or have no stick left at all. Not that I need anything else to spend money on, but maybe I should think about refreshing my collection a bit.
Today's going to be low key - kiddos, beading, maybe rebraiding my hair (winter has not been kind to it) and/or also maybe getting a little more work done on my website so I can actually, you know. Reopen it.
* interestingly enough I'm not so big on the actual "hunt" part of things, mostly because I get easily frustrated if I can't figure out the clues instantly. Exception being letterboxing - one of the things I'd like to do once smartphoned up is take that up again. built in compass and GPS for the win.
