Today, it is extremely difficult to surprise teenagers with gifts. Therefore, parents try to come up with something original. A birthday quest for teenagers has a lot of advantages. Firstly, the guys will be mentally and physically busy. Secondly, receiving a gift takes on a more mysterious look. Thirdly, teenage quests can be carried out anywhere. But the main advantage can be considered that such a pastime is suitable for all ages and social status.
Home quest “The Cellar of the Spirit”
When you decide to surprise your child and his friends for his birthday with a quest at home, remember that preparation is necessary. There are two options - invite a professional or prepare it yourself.
Invitations
Invitations are a necessary part of the game. Having received such messages, the participants will be prepared in advance that they are invited not to simple gatherings, but to a full-scale game. The invitation must indicate the time, place and dress code.
Invitation example:
“Sergey (guest name)! I invite you to take part in an exciting game dedicated to my birthday. I will need your help, so I’m waiting for you at 13:00, August 25 this year. The dress code is loose."
If the party is a costume party, then indicate the theme and what clothes to wear.
Preparing the premises
Our quest will be called the “basement of the spirit,” which means the rooms need to be decorated accordingly.
On the walls, you can hang posters depicting bricks or destroyed premises. It is better to light the room with table lamps. Dim light will shine on the worn bricks, thus creating a basement atmosphere.
The maximum number of players if the game takes place at home is up to five people. It will be more inconvenient, the players will interfere with each other.
main idea
You need to solve a series of puzzles to get to the hidden treasure step by step. If there is only one child, then this may just be a gift. If you are with friends, then in addition to the gift, you can put incentive prizes in the cache, for example, coupons for a visit to a pizzeria or a movie.
Give hints to the children during the game, preferably in different ways - notes, oral answers, via telephone and the Internet.
Scenario
We choose a presenter in advance; it could be one of the parents.
Presenter : “I greet the brave and courageous treasure seekers. Now, we are at a depth of 30 meters, it remains a mystery - who and when built this shelter. It was discovered many years ago by a mad scientist who hid an important document. The document is protected by an immortal spirit. As legend says, the spirit will reveal its secret only to those who can pass all its tests. Before you, there were countless attempts to find him, but all without success. I hope this works for you. I don’t know all the secrets of this dungeon, so the spirit itself will tell you something. This phone will help you find your lost document.”
Quest tasks
Test 1
Presenter: “in order to cross the threshold of the asylum, you need to show that you are worthy of it. You need to solve several logical problems." Posts several examples from matches. Presenter: “Rearrange one match to get the correct answer.”
Example:
8+3-4=0 (we remove one match from 8 to get 9 and rearrange it to 0 to get 8). 5-5+9=6 (at 9 we rearrange the match to make 6).
If necessary, explain the course of action.
Test 2
Presenter : “okay, now let’s see how well you remember. These are symbols of the international system of units (at the age of 14-15, they already studied it at school), each symbol will represent a specific action. In one minute, try to remember. I’ll give you a hint: divide the symbols among yourselves, it will be easier.”
L – call a doctor. M – no way to go forward. T – food and water required. I – that’s right. Q – no way. N – tell me where to go. J – repeat.
After a minute, the presenter removes the symbols and lets the players into another room. There lies on the floor or attached to the wall a symbol - T.
Players are required to have a snack.
Test 3
Presenter : “while you are all at the table, look at the bottom of the plates, there should be a new task there.”
Attach a note with the task to the bottom of one plate.
Exercise
“Proceed to the adjacent room. There you will see five numbered glasses and a bottle with strange water. Pour one tablespoon into each glass. The reaction that has begun will point in the right direction.”
There is vinegar in the bottle, and flour in all the glasses except one. In the third glass there is soda. By adding vinegar to it, a chemical reaction will occur.
So, the required number is 3.
Test 4
Host : “let’s go back. Pay attention to the shelves, look for the right number.”
Among the total number of books, you need to include a multi-volume edition. We need volume No. 3, between its pages the guys will find a blank sheet.
At this time, a message should come to your phone: “iron”.
The trick is that this is not a simple sheet, but a message or drawing written in milk. To ensure that nothing happens, monitor the entire heating process.
In our case, it will be a washing machine.
Test 5
The guys open the machine and find red, yellow, and blue paints; clean format and the following message:
“Draw a congratulations to a friend. But the color should be orange, brown, purple, green.”
Players must mix colors until they get the ones they want. After that, everyone chooses a color and draws a congratulation.
The desired colors are obtained by mixing:
- Yellow with blue – green.
- Yellow with red – orange.
- Blue with red - purple.
- Mix all three - brown.
Presenter : “Remember each of your colors and move on.”
Test 6
The group enters a room filled with balloons of different colors. A prerequisite is that among the total number there are balls with the colors of the previous test.
Presenter : “I hope you remember each of your colors. Now pay attention - there are important scraps in the balls with your flowers, you need to find them in two minutes. You can only eat your own color. Forward!".
Scattered fragments are one whole message. To do this, you need to write a quatrain of a famous poet on a piece of paper.
For example, Lermontov, Pushkin, Yesenin, you can take poets who were recently studied at school. Then randomly cut it into the number of players, put it in a ball and inflate it.
Test 7
Presenter : “I see you have found all the pieces, now put them together. Remember whose poems these are. Do you remember? Then we return to the room with the books.”
The guys find the right author, in the book there is an envelope with cinema tickets and a message to the birthday boy, where the gift is.
Presenter : “friends, you did an excellent job with all the tasks, well done! Now let’s all go to the table and celebrate this!”
Quest plot
New Year has always been and remains a holiday for children who believe in magic and the fulfillment of all desires... But what if children are no longer really children and believe in magic with a certain grin? Especially when teenagers have a weak faith in Santa Claus. They live in a world of cool gadgets, the latest iPhone models, they know how to move on two wheels without making any effort, but they have almost lost faith in New Year’s magic and miracles. What if you distract teenagers from the world of electronics and the latest gadgets on New Year's Eve? Of course, a fun, exciting quest with mysterious characters and an intricate plot. And in this case, according to the scenario of the New Year's quest for teenagers, in order to save the New Year's mood, grandparents come to the rescue and will do everything for the sake of their grandchildren. The story of the quest begins with a letter written by grandparents. This time, the retired generation TSDB (secret union of grandparents) created a kind of KLO agent from what, as they say, they scraped together. Text of the letter: “Hello, dear grandchildren! This secret letter was written by your grandparents. We understand that you believe in anything: ghosts, aliens. The fact is that with a new iPhone you will study better... But the magic of the New Year is a thing of the past for you. And it was difficult to find someone who would restore your faith in the holiday, so we created a secret agent, using a secret recipe and secret ingredients. But the KOO agent (a particularly round bun) has strangely disappeared, and the only ones who can find him are you. But there is good news: he left encrypted messages along his path. They will help you save the KLO agent, and with him Santa Claus, and the holiday itself. Attached to this letter is the agent's dossier, where you will find your first clue. Good luck, grandchildren! PS: dress warmly and eat well! “So, go ahead! New Year's trouble awaits you...
Outdoors
Games for quests outdoors or in nature are distinguished by the presence of space. This means that there are more opportunities for competitions, an unlimited number of players and it will definitely be more fun.
Scenario
Invitations
Since you are planning a trip to nature, you need to warn about this in advance. Do this on the invitation card. Invitation example:
“My friend, to celebrate my birthday, we are planning to go out into nature. An exciting game awaits us and I can’t do it without your help. I’m waiting for you at my home on the 15th of this month, exactly at 12:00.”
Preparing for the game
If possible, it is better to prepare the playing area in advance. When this is not possible, you can resort to simple competitions. In this case, it won’t take much time to prepare.
Detailed description of the quest
A New Year's quest for teenagers for indoors and outdoors will help diversify children's leisure time during the New Year holidays, easily and cheerfully play up the presentation of a gift, and also cheer up the New Year and Christmas.
♦ Age category: from 12 to 16 years. ♦ Travel time: up to 40 minutes. ♦ Purpose of the quest : ◊ entertaining - the quest script for teenagers will originally diversify the leisure time of a group of participants during the New Year holidays, on the eve of the New Year, Christmas. ♦ The venue is universal; hiding places in this quest for teenagers are provided both at home and outdoors. Possible locations for the event are a house, apartment, cottage, school, street, courtyard, territory of a private house, etc. ♦ Number of participants: from 1 to 10 people. ◊ single passage - solving the quest by one participant. ◊ group passage - several participants solve all tasks together. ♦ Tasks: 10 tasks that are connected by a common plot and semantic connection. The New Year's quest script is written in a humorous manner. Consists of an introduction, 10 diverse original tasks and a final word. The tasks are not particularly difficult, but will make participants think hard. ♦ Necessary props: pencil or pen for writing quest answers. If desired, 10 envelopes for assignments. ♦ Genre: Role-playing quest. Requires participants to actively take action to find hiding places using notes that first need to be solved. ♦ Hiding places. The quest organizer needs to place the clues (tasks) in the specified hiding places. ◊ hare - a soft toy, a drawing, an image of a hare. ◊ book of fairy tales. ◊ blanket/on a tree ◊ lamp/firewood ◊ chair/bush ◊ flower/stone ◊ boots/bottle ◊ sofa/post ◊ iron/stump ◊ closet/bag ♦ Audience: The quest is intended for teenagers and is perfect for playing New Year's holidays, namely St. Nicholas Day, New Year, Christmas, Old New Year. Also, the quest, with its festive decoration, will additionally lift the New Year’s mood for all participants and diversify leisure time. Also on our website you can find out about another New Year’s quest for teenagers: “The Secret Message of Santa Claus.” ♦ The finished quest kit includes 5 PDF files: 1. File “Instructions for the quest” (common for home and street, 13 pages), contains a list of necessary actions to prepare the quest for conducting and explanations for solving some tasks 2. File “Quest without answers" (version for home, 15 pages) - contains tasks that participants will need to solve. 3. File “Quest with answers” (version for home, 12 pages) - contains a list of tasks, but with answers. 4. File “Quest without answers” (street version, 15 pages) - contains tasks that participants will need to solve. 5. File “Quest with answers” (outdoor version, 12 pages) - contains a list of tasks, but with answers. These files will need to be printed on a black and white or color printer. ♦ Other quests on the site:
Quest tasks
◊ The KLO agent's dossier is an easy and interesting task for attentiveness; you need to familiarize yourself with the dossier on the kolobok, put the highlighted words into the text and guess the task based on the fairy tale. ◊ Improvised Christmas tree - a task in which, in order to find a keyword, you need to find objects on the tree related to the new year. ◊ Such a different fox is an interesting task for guessing the names of famous old fairy tales, but interpreted in a modern way. ◊ Magic square - a task in which it is possible to find a key word only with the help of the presented New Year-themed pictures, the correct name of which should be found in the square, and the remaining word is the next secret place. ◊ Forest map - an attentive task in which you need to find symbols on the map that indicate the letters of the keyword. ◊ Fairytale identification is a task in which you need to decipher fairy tale characters using funny and mysterious descriptions. ◊ New Year's poker - a task in which you need to find where the famous poker combination is located, and the chips will tell you where the next cache is. ◊ “Battleship” is a task for the famous game of sea battle, but to guess the keyword, you need to add part of the hidden game. ◊ Dossier on Santa Claus - a task to know the differences between Grandfather Frost and Santa Claus; by choosing the right “uniform”, you will find the keyword - cache. ◊ Search for a bag with gifts - from several bags of Santa Claus, find the one that is not like the others in its contents, it is he who will indicate the next hiding place. ◊ And much more.
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