..without a GPSr. I mean, suppose you were to hold an event, and you want to invite people from the neighborhood, but you want people to be able to find them if they don’t have a GPSr. Do you think that using zoomed in GoogleMaps or something with very specific written details would be able to help some n00bs find temps and thus get a better feel for the game??
yup, good instructions should work like you are talking. We’ve done that for kids treasure hunts before
Start with your back to the white door, take 15 steps and turn right, go down the hall to the flusher (bathroom), jump up and down 5 times, turn left and go to where you may get wet(shower) to find your prize…
yup, good instructions should work like you are talking. We’ve done that for kids treasure hunts before
Start with your back to the white door, take 15 steps and turn right, go down the hall to the flusher (bathroom), jump up and down 5 times, turn left and go to where you may get wet(shower) to find your prize…
With these instructions I ended up in my back yard. 😆
Yep.
I did this 30 years ago when I lived in West Allis. Each summer we would hunt down a watermelon in McCarty Park by finding scraps of paper hidden all over the park. Each scrap would give clues to find the next piece. This is totally like letterboxing, but this is also where geocaching gets its roots.
I think that this style of hunt is a decent way to introduce them to a geocaching like hunt…..
In the past we have done the evil parent approach. Each kid had to find 7 clues to a final location. To find each of the seven they had to solve a mathmatical or grammatical problem, then the received the clue to that location. All went well til they found a problem with one of our calculations.
I would suggest providing TWO versions of documents … one without much text “hinting” for those without GPSrs and another with just Coordinates and normal geo-hints for those with … assuming the potential exists for some people to have GPSrs.
Regarding the example … I ended up at the neighborhood car wash! … if only I had brought the car along.
When I was a kid and went to camp we did something similar but used a compass (pre GPS days). The counselors set pieces of paper in trees with the next place we were to find. We all had a blast and the final location was the lake where they had the boats loaded up to take us fishing.
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