How Does Adventure Hunt Work?
Adventure Hunt is a real life, modern day Treasure Hunt that sends you off in teams of 2-4 people on an exhilarating, adrenaline-packed ride we promise you will never forget! You’ll complete both gut-bustingly funny and adventurous challenges that unlock a real life treasure map on our Adventure Hunt app. From there you’ll put your mind & will to the test as you solve clues guiding you to the buried booty.
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APP HELP & TUTORIAL VIDEOS
How to Check-in & Team Up In 4 Easy Steps
Step 1: Login using your registered email address and registration number (This is the Blue Login button on the home screen of the app)
Step 2: Check-In everyone that's going to be participating.
a. If everyone purchased their own ticket, you will each register separately on your own phones.
b. If one person purchased the tickets for all team members in the same transaction, the check-in process will be done on the same phone.
Step 3: Send in-app invites using your friends' registered or checked-in email addresses. Enter a team name & the Instagram account you'll use on Hunt Day. *Only 1 person needs to do this
Step 4: Have ALL of your teammates accept your invite by logging into the app using their registered or checked-in email address & registration number.
View your team by tapping the icon (top left corner), then 'My Team.' Here you can change your team name or Instagram account by tapping the (top right corner).
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How to Edit Your Team Name
Step 1: Tap the icon (top left corner)
Step 2: Tap 'My Team'
Step 3: Tap (top right corner)
Step 4: Tap 'Edit Team' and input new team name *App will block any type of profanity
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Changing Your Instagram Account
Step 1: Tap the icon (top left corner)
Step 2: Tap 'My Team'
Step 3: Tap (top right corner)
Step 4: Tap 'Edit Team'
Step 5: Type in your correct Instagram account. We will be checking this account during challenge verification.
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How to Post An Instagram Story
Step 1: In your Instagram, tap on your profile pic (top left corner)
Step 2: Capture your video by tapping and holding the record button, ensuring that ALL teammates are seen at least once during the challenge
Step 3: Add a caption by tapping anywhere on the video - Typically the name of the challenge (i.e. Eating a banana like a monkey)
Step 4: Add any hashtags as required by tapping the icon in the top center of the screen, and selecting the #hashtag option
Step 5: Tag @adventurehunt.co and any sponsors if included in your challenge. To do this, tap on the screen and select the '@ Mention' button in the bottom left, then type in the IG account handle
Step 6: Tap the 'Your Story' button to finish posting to your Story (bottom left)
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- Download the most RECENT version of our app, iOS or Android well before Hunt Day to create your team. (Watch the videos above!)
- Turn ON & enable Location Services & Notifications for our app
- Log-in and Team up within the app
- Make Instagram account PUBLIC, not private. You can change it back to private after the hunt
- Do the Challenges and POST VIDEO PROOF to your Instagram Story
- Solve clues and go to the area you think the clue is referring to
- You may need to complete more challenges and post more videos at each stop
- Find the Treasure!
TREASURE HUNT TIPS FOR SUCCESS
- Read the Rules and Waiver
- Bring with you: at least one phone with the Adventure Hunt app per team, water, snacks, attire needed for weather in your area that day, phone charger, a fun attitude
- Have one person manage the Adventure Hunt app, tracking the clues and challenges. Have another manage the videos and posting to Instagram. This will save battery life and make completing the challenges more fun and less chaotic!
On Hunt Day
- Read and follow the prompts within our app
- During the Hunt, stick together as a team, only one person needs their phone out with app open–ensure good cell service or wifi is connected
- Make sure you have your phone's most recent operating system and the most recent update of the Adventure Hunt app (double check before you start!)
- Get 10 Adventure points and 10 Fun points from the Adventure List. Be strategic!
- Post challenges to your team's Instagram story
- 'Save Progress' inside the app as you mark off challenges you've done
- Submit for verification via the app only after you've earned enough points
- Open the treasure map and solve the clues that lead you to buried treasure
- You will get notifications when you're within 2,500 ft, 750 ft, and when you reach each stop.
- Complete more challenges at each stop to move on!
- Tapping 'Sync Hunt' from the icon is like a nice refresh of the app. If you feel something is off, tap 'Sync Hunt' and see if that fixes the issue!
- ENJOY THE RIDE - Have fun and happy hunting!