How to organize a birthday quest: finding a gift using notes


Birthday gifts

  • Why is a quest gift relevant?
  • Quest for a man's birthday
  • Quest for a friend's birthday
  • Looking for a gift on the street
  • Quest for a child's birthday: looking for a gift
  • What could be more exciting than a well-organized quest? Only an individual quest prepared specifically for the birthday boy.

    If you have long wanted to give a gift in such an unusual way, but still haven’t dared, this article is especially for you. We'll share some simple but fun ways to organize birthday quests. It's not difficult, you'll see.

    About the kit

    • A dacha quest for adults and teenagers includes a set of tasks, each of which is hidden in a specific place. The solution to each riddle reveals the location where the next clue is hidden. Thus, a chain of tasks is obtained that must be completed step by step in order to find the cache with the hidden prize.
    • The kit provides a wide variety of universal places in the country, in a country house or in the village, where you can hide tasks and a gift. 7 tasks out of 10 are additionally presented in the form of templates for self-editing. If some keywords do not fit, you can change them.
    • The kit allows you to create your own unique search chain: tasks can be arranged in any order and can be completed in any number of stages, which is very convenient for the quest organizer.
    • The tips are colorfully designed and contain a variety of puzzles, logic and intelligence tasks. They are based on intellectual and verbal games, composing anagrams and various types of ciphers.
    • Recommended age of players: 13 +

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    Using this kit you can organize a quest:

    • for one player - for example, an original way to play with the presentation of a birthday gift
    • for one team of players at a family party
    • for two or three teams – arrange a team competition for guests to find a cache
    • for two or three teams without competition, with prizes for all players

    Quests for the quest at the dacha

    A dacha is a great place for a quest because you can use both indoors and fresh air.
    Most scenarios are universal and can be carried out both indoors and outdoors.

    They do not require participants to have specific knowledge, and are rather designed for logic, intelligence and resourcefulness.

    Examples of tasks can be read on the quest pages and in these reviews:

    • Ready tasks
    • Review of riddles and puzzles

    Most of the tasks are easy enough to print, but some may require additional items, for example:

    • scissors;
    • mobile phone;
    • container with water;
    • desk lamp;
    • and other.

    A list of all necessary equipment is given in the instructions. As a rule, these are simple items that can be easily found at any dacha.

    An example of a task that you simply need to print

    For example, this activity from the “Superheroes” scenario is easy enough to print out.

    In it you need to combine two cards and see what happens. Watch the video below.

    As you have already seen, if the players solve this task, they will learn the name of the cache, “The Box.” This could be a mailbox, a box for country equipment, or an ordinary box that is likely to be found in the country.

    Example of tasks with props

    And for this task from the quest “The Key” you will need a container of water.

    If the players guess to put the card in the water, they will know the answer to the task. Watch the video below.

    Set design

    You can start the quest game in an original way using a special postcard . It's durable and takes just a few minutes to cook (details included), with the first clue in the middle; Postcard format - A4. When finished it looks like this:

    completing assignments

    Halloween at the dacha

    On the eve of Halloween, you can’t help but buy the “Haunted House” quest for your dacha. The set includes two options - standard for children or complicated with mini roles for an adult company.

    In a limited time, participants will have to find a way out of the haunted house. A unique feature of the quest is an augmented reality task . A mobile phone camera will help you solve it.

    The quest also comes with atmospheric holiday paraphernalia - toppers, invitations, themed banners, etc. Each of these items adds mystery to the usual country house. Scare yourself, and then scare your neighbors.

    Go to scenario

    Description of tasks

    (key places where you can hide hints and surprises are indicated in brackets)

    1. Weather forecast (birch, rowan, apple tree, your option). An original logical and mathematical task for quick thinking.
    2. In the garden (bucket, watering can). The players' task is to understand from the clues what object they are talking about.
    3. Tricky code (rake, garden bed, your option). A tricky puzzle for your ingenuity.
    4. Anagrams (cap, barbecue, sunglasses, your choice). You need to make 4 words from the mixed up letters and understand what object they point to.
    5. Fun riddles (bicycle, strawberry, gloves, your choice). Entertaining riddles that test your sense of humor and intelligence.
    6. Logical dominoes (garage, package, pillar, your option). A fun task for associative thinking.
    7. Butterfly collections (gate, stone, shovel, your option). A difficult arithmetic task for composure and concentration.
    8. Haymaking (path, porch, greenhouse, your option). A task for quick thinking, an unusual type of cipher: you need to compose a word by selecting letters.
    9. Encrypted word (shrub, staircase, front garden). Original keyword. Players need to read a keyword, each letter of which is encrypted with a picture of a tree.
    10. Cache (bench, car). An interesting logic task.

    Attention! The set includes task templates “Weather Forecast”, “Tricky Cipher”, “Anagrams”, “Funny Riddles”, “Logical Dominoes”, “Butterfly Collections”, “Haymaking”: if the keywords do not suit you, you can replace them yourself .

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    Birthday Quest: Looking for a Gift

    The older a person is, the more difficult and troublesome the opportunity to surprise him becomes. Modern youth cannot be pleased with an ordinary gift. We bring to your attention a game of searching for hidden “treasure”. It can be carried out both in an ordinary apartment, house, and in nature or in any other place. You ask how to organize a quest at home? Easily! We give an example of the simplest option, for one person, lasting no more than 15 minutes. This option is well suited if you cannot be present at the event; having prepared in advance, you can leave the player to explore the home on their own. With a little effort, it can be upgraded into tasks for a group of people, extended by increasing the number of steps, and the like. Let us mention that a quest is a form of leisure that came to us from computer games. It involves the simultaneous connection of all players of one team to the interaction. And, as a rule, it is aimed at solving certain tasks set in advance that will lead the participants to their goal. You will need: • Paper; • Scissors; • Glue, tape; • Felt pens – pencils; • A little imagination; • Present.

    Treasure map. An important point at the stage of planning and developing a scenario is thinking through the search route. It is most convenient at this stage to draw a plan of the house, or the area for which the game is designed. And place the key points (where the tips will be located) clockwise from the entrance, or the starting point of the route. Thus, you eliminate as much as possible the possibility of finding a gift quickly, because it is, in fact, hidden not far from the entrance, and the game takes the search in a completely different direction. There is an example in the photo.


    To determine the number of key points, decide how long the quest should take, and how difficult one game will be (how much time it will take to complete it). For example, we created tasks for a total of 15 minutes, expecting that the games would be easy - 1-1.5 minutes per task - we have 11 points. And the tasks themselves consist only of guessing the next key place. You can make it more difficult by encrypting it with an anagram, a crossword, a rebus, and so on.

    Selection of problems. This is where you need that flight of fantasy. We cut out stars for each task and began to come up with ideas. At the entrance, the first detailed hint was waiting for the birthday girl, with instructions on what to do and how to play.

    #1 Look for a device that constantly sniffs dirty things. We are talking about a washing machine. It contains the following hint.


    No. 2 Where is the coldest place in the apartment? This is a freezer. In the freezer there is an envelope with a cut image.


    No. 3 Put the puzzle together.

    After completing the task, you get a photo of the microwave oven.


    And therein lies the next clue.

    No. 4 “They ate from their plates, slept on their beds, and there a cup was broken and a spoon was broken.” This is from the tale of the three bears. We have just such heroes in our bedroom. And they have the next clue.

    No. 5 Collect a word from the letters in the envelope.


    "Keyboard".

    There is a two-sided hint under the keyboard: No. 6 Side 1: Go from your tablet to the specified page on the Internet and look at the number of reviews.


    No. 6 Side 2: Take book No.____ from the shelf above the laptop from left to right. (Enter the number of reviews)


    When the player finds out the number of reviews, he will understand that he needs to take the 9th book.


    And in it:

    #7 Go through the long tunnel that connects the rooms outside.

    We're talking about the loggia.

    Hints are posted on it. "He's waiting for you on the couch." In the room on the sofa the first gift and:

    #8 That's not all. Go into the small room where the “treasures” are stored. This is a storage room.

    No. 9 Look for the one who said, “You are the sweetest, the most ruddy and the whitest in the world.” This is a mirror. You need to look through all the mirrors and find:

    No. 10 Dial __________ and listen to the answering machine. Congratulations and indication of the last place with a gift are recorded in advance on the answering machine.

    The last gift may include a card with wishes.

    Advice: Formulate tasks unambiguously so that the player does not form a false judgment and he does not declassify you ahead of time.

    Good luck with your quests, take care of your family and friends, please and pamper them more often.

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    Use “natural objects” and terrain features

    Tasks for a quest in nature, in a forest or in a park should contain answers pointing to all sorts of natural objects, for example: a tree, bush, stone, foliage, etc. But at the same time, if you come up with tasks for a children's quest on the street, on the playground or in the courtyard of a house, then the answers can be such objects as: a swing, a bench, a sandbox, a ladder, a bicycle, etc. Quests in nature are good because key places can be distributed at a fairly large distance from each other. This will add realism to the quest, and searching for objects will captivate players even more.

    It's time for picnics and country trips

    Finally, the time has come for picnics, country trips, long walks and games in the yard. And open-air games, as you know, are liked by everyone: both children and adults.

    Lately, there has been a lot of interest in quests; many have already experienced how exciting and challenging it is. But you don’t have to go to a special quest room; you can play right in your garden at the dacha or even in the courtyard of an apartment building.

    Quest on the street is a game with several stages. At each stage, players find a clue that allows them to discover a location with the next clue, and so on, until the final goal. Essentially, this is the same home quest, only notes with tasks are hidden in the open air, wherever it is. In the summer, organizing such a game with a search for hidden treasure is as easy as shelling pears! For example, you can come up with a quest scenario for adults on a picnic or for relaxing at a camp site. You just need a little imagination and time and you will come up with an idea for a children's quest on the street or in the courtyard.

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