Still thinking about the Treasure Hunt party game: Here are some of the comments emailed to us about the amazing parties people have had using our treasure hunt planner system:

Thank you for this excellent product. We had the party on Saturday and it was fantastic. I live in France so had to translate it and we did a Harry Potter theme.  For the code, we sent the kids to a computer where they typed in the code and then a powerpoint presentation sent them to the kitchen for the treasure. It was really brilliant fun and I know we'll be doing it all again soon! Thanks again,

Alex Laurie, Eure et Loir France

Hi Nikki
We had a great Treasure Hunt for my daughter’s 11 year old party. We had five teams and I had two other grown-ups helping me. I did the pea challenge, the balancing on a rope, a general knowledge quiz, the backward clues quiz, a memory game and a beat the buzzer game, some they found more challenging than others. The treasure map I hid inside a balloon and mixed it in with lots of other balloons so they had to pop them all to find the map, I had also hidden the bag of balloons.
The treasure map was then found and the hunt for the chest started - it was located up a tree.
They all had great fun, the weather stayed dry and the bags of gold coins for the treasure box were appreciated. What a great idea, I shall certainly keep it for using again. Best Wishes
Louise Ross, Glasgow Scotland

Dear Nikki,

I wanted to give you a review of our party last Saturday. It was a real hit, all the boys had a great time. We had 8 boys ages 11 and 12 over for our twin’s 11th birthday party. We gave instruction to bring their bikes to the party as they were to search within our housing development for clues, the map, and treasure. The invitations were hand delivered on brown paper sacks to look like treasure maps.

We included many of your games; Pea and straw, toilet paper wrap, word puzzle, rope walk, we added – name the landmark game with pictures of US national landmarks as an educational station.

Our map was hidden by our community pool under a bench in a poster tube. It led them to an undeveloped lot that had 3 piles of dirt. There was an actual X taped onto one of the piles of dirt. We spray painted a Styrofoam cooler black and glued a latch for the combination lock to hold. The boy’s party favors were in the treasure chest which included a flashlight, movie gift card and some candy!

My wife and I did the whole thing with each of us taking one team (4 boys).

I’ve attached a link where you can view the photos we took.

Thanks again for the great kit as it made the process very easy. We had a fun time in planning the whole event. The combination twist is a very clever thing! Best regards,

Mark Miserak, Texas USA

Dear Nikki, The treasure hunt was a great success. The children enjoyed themselves from beginning to end and for the first time nobody squabbled! The layout is very clear and nobody had any trouble following it. I bought a little treasure chest for next to nothing and filled it with chocolate pennies. At the end several of the kids said that my parties were always the best so please take all the credit! Do you have any other party suggestions? Many thanks for a great day

Ann Germain-Hansford St Marcellin France

Hi Nikki, We had the hunt last night with about 25 10 and 12 year old girls, It was a little chaotic but they had fun.  Thanks,

Jennifer Honeycutt, North Carolina USA

Hi Nikki

It all went very well. It seemed easy, and when you have the planner in front of you it is straight forward. However without the planner I really don't think I'd have been able to do it. Thank you

Russell Holman, Essex UK

Hi Nikki!

Well, let me tell you what a success our children/adult Halloween party was!!!! Everyone (and I mean everyone) is still telling me how awesome the treasure hunt was. Last year we tried doing it ourselves, and even though the kids had fun running around our 5 acres, it could in NO WAY compare to this years!! Since we did have some difficulty with pay pal at first, it delayed our creative time, but thanks to your book, we pulled it off!

We're inspired to have an adult treasure hunt party next, it's such a great idea. I did give a couple of my friends your e-mail address...so hopefully you'll hear from them.

Good luck in the future.... Thanks again,

Monet and Kris Storkersen, California USA

Once we got started, it went pretty smoothly. I had teams of one adult and one kid, and I mixed them up, so usually the parent didn't get their own kid. I thought that would help the neighbors get to know other people's kids a little better. Everyone had lots of fun and much laughter was heard. The only thing I regret is not having it all in the same room, because some of the tasks were quite funny! The tasks were a bit of a challenge because I had to configure them so that all can participate (we had ages from 2 to 54). So some tasks were better done by the small kids and some tasks were better done by the adults. All in all, I was very pleased and am looking forward to planning my a treasure hunt for my daughter's birthday party in two weeks, which means I better get cracking now! Thank you very much, that was $30 well spent.

Terri Harmon, Illinois USA

Nikki -I had my treasure hunt last weekend over Halloween --it went very well --we used the eye ball (ping pong) task and the mummy toilet paper task --among others – the clue that I broke up into puzzle parts worked very well -even for 6 year olds! I have a winter birthday coming up for an 11 year old --do you have any theme ideas?? -we have lots of snow here.....thanks

Holly Cluse, Vermont USA

Nikki,

Thanks for such great ideas. I found your site via Halloween.com and ordered the supplies Halloween morning for a party starting 5:30 that evening.

After setting up the haunted house, cleaning, and preparing the food we had about 35 minutes to plan. Even with such little time to plan the kids went home smiling and telling their parents they had a good time. We didn't get a chance the bury treasure but plan to for our daughter's birthday in the spring. Thanks for a great product and can I email you for ideas for our spring birthday party? Thanks again.

Sidney Ricks, California USA

The treasure hunt was great. Now we have been requested to do a city wide treasure hunt to raise money for a scholarship fund. My children had a ball and so did I (I may have had more fun than them). This will absolutely be an annual event for us. The original reason for it was because we don't celebrate Halloween and I wanted my children to get some candy and have an opportunity to dress up in a controlled situation. They love the idea. I found a great pirate mask and scared a few of the younger children but my older kids thought it was hilarious. Thanks for everything and keep the updates coming

Donna Benn, Florida USA