{"id":185,"date":"2012-04-19T02:17:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2012-04-25T20:54:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:54:05","slug":"car-rally-scavenger-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/car-rally-scavenger-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Rally Scavenger Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Car rallies can be used for all sorts of events and occasions &#8211; birthday parties, school or church retreats, or just general fun get togethers.\u00a0 How does a car rally work?\u00a0 It is basically a scavenger hunt, however done by using a car to get from one destination to another.\u00a0 Thus, it should typically last a couple of hours.\u00a0 It is also done with at least 2 or more people per car, as the clues tend to be a bit trickier and need some team work to figure out where the next destination should be ;)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-186\" title=\"car\" src=\"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/car-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"193\" \/><br \/>\nA few important things to consider with a car rally:<br \/>\n1) Where should the end destination be (the last clue should lead to this place :) assuming a place that everybody participating in the car rally should gather at the end for some more fun ;)<br \/>\n2) The team that arrives at the end destination first is the winner! However&#8230; the below should be considered!<br \/>\n3) If someone on the car rally gets stuck with a clue and has absolutely no idea where to go for the next clue, there should be a contact person that teams should be able to contact, if they need some help &#8211; of course, penalties should be put in place, if someone needs to call in for help :) e.g.: if a team calls in for help, that team has 10 minutes added to their end time. So, if a team ends up finishing the hunt in 2 hours, but has called in once for help, their end time is 2 hours and 10 minutes.\u00a0 If another team arrives at the end destination at 2 hours and 5 minutes, with no calls for help, they would be the official winners!<br \/>\n4) Do you want to include props as part of the hunt? e.g.: teams need to take pictures at specific destinations or buy items from a certain store? If so, the teams need to be provided with cameras or have cameras on hand and ensure that teams have money available with them to use for purchases on the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s end off this post with a car rally example :)<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-187\" title=\"people\" src=\"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/people-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: We&#8217;ll start off easy &#8211; Sometimes you throw a dart at me, others use me for shooting practice. I am a&#8230;<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: Target<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: Correct! Go to the nearest Target store and tell me what kid&#8217;s item takes up the most space in the store.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: Bicycles, bikes, bike, bicycle<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: Great! Now, get on one of those bikes and take a picture with your team ;) Where in the area is a good trail to take a bike?<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: Stoney Creek, Stoneys<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: Perfect &#8211; get going to the creek now. And reply with &#8220;yes&#8221; when you arrive there<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: Yes<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: Great &#8211; Go to the area where you can rent boats. How many statues are surrounding the cabin?<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: 5, five<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: Thats right! Take a silly team picture amongst the statues. What is the cheapest item you can buy inside the cabin?<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: key chain, keychain<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: Yup! Go buy me a nice keychain as a souvenir :) Next up, are you getting rather hungry? There was a movie called &#8220;Super Size Me&#8221; based on this franchise.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: McDonald&#8217;s, McDonalds, Mc Donalds, Mc Donald&#8217;s<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: Thats right! Go to the closest McDonald&#8217;s and take a picture with one of the employees. Type &#8220;ok&#8221; without the quotes when this has been done.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: ok<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: Hope the employee didnt find you too odd :P It&#8217;s time for some fun! Which playground can you find a water slide?<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: Raven Park, Raven<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: Right! Hop on over there and take a picture of your team mates playing in the playground. Type &#8220;ok&#8221; without the quotes when done<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: &#8220;ok&#8221;<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong><\/em>: I normally slither around, but you can get a good drink out of me.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>: Snake&#8217;s bar<br \/>\n<em><strong>Clue<\/strong>: <\/em>That&#8217;s right! Head on there now for a drink or two, and find out what place you&#8217;ve come in. Don&#8217;t forget to buy me a drink :)<\/p>\n<p>A<em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-188\" title=\"people\" src=\"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/people2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"197\" \/><\/em>nd that&#8217;s a simple car rally :) No need to leave paper trails around the city with a tool like<a title=\"Text Clues\" href=\"http:\/\/www.textclues.com\"> Text Clues<\/a>. We do the work for you :)\u00a0 Try it out today, and you&#8217;ll make your next event out one for your group of friends or club to remember!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car rallies can be used for all sorts of events and occasions &#8211; birthday parties, school or church retreats, or just general fun get togethers.\u00a0 How does a car rally work?\u00a0 It is basically a scavenger hunt, however done by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/car-rally-scavenger-hunt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8,4],"tags":[47,44,42,43,46,45,7,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textclues.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}