A creative opportunity question: out-of-season hide'n'seek

Went to a party today with my boyfriend. I asked a couple who were new to us how they'd met the host and hostess. They said, "At the Easter Beer Hunt." Seems that for a long number of years there was this big Easter Beer Hunt on the 10 acre property of some friends of theirs. The day before Easter, some people would hide cans of beer throughout the farm or whatever it was, and the people would hunt for beer instead of Easter eggs.

I want to have a hunt next spring or summer. I don't like beer, and am not supposed to drink alcohol anyway due to meds. Fine with me. I don't want to hide eggs or beer. What other thing could the hunt be for? I have been wracking my brain and can't think of anything that would draw people so they'd like to hunt for some category of "thing." And it'd either need to be inexpensive for me to buy, or else people would have to pay an entry fee. Chocolate would melt.

when i was a child, we did something that could work.

our school put on a skavenger hunt to search for our food. we got clues, and each clue led to an area where we'd find an item of our dinner.. so a sandwich, a packet of crisps, an apple, that kind of thing.. and after we found it all, we went back to eat it what we'd got.

of course if you did that you'd have to buy enough stuff for everyone, so everyone gets the same items and the same chance at the game (no unfair advantage)

you could hunt for various candies- gummy worms, fruit jellies, that kind of thing

you could make a list of stuff around the area, give each person a copy of the list and ask them to tick off the stuff when they find it (which is good because the stuff could be anywhere)

you could, if you were feeling creative, set up a murder mystery- and ask people to hunt for clues to who did the murder (of course it's not a real murder, but you get my drift)

how this one could also work is people finding out stuff about others-

so 1 of the clues would be for example.. someone over the age of 25, and people have to narrow it down

just some suggestions

or i've thought of something else

set up clues to various landmarks around the area.

on each landmark, their is a letter- the letters spell out a word.. the idea is to hunt all the letters, and then spell the word in the correct order

ffirst person to do it could get a small prize

I can't think of anything. When my dad does Easter hunts, he used plastic eggs and puts 50cents in each. People like money. Then maybe a card game after to play for the coins they found? Maybe go to the dollar store and search for ideas. I love the beer hunt idea! If I had many adult friends, I would so do that!

Never thought if this till you posed the question, but what about a no-purchase thing like have people each donate a book, then hide them. It would be like a bookswap with added element of surprise. Pretty much everyone has a book or two that they think it would be nice to pass along, but that they don't have a specific person in mind. Maybe the group you'd like to do this with even has a common interest -- say cooking or nature or gardening or self-help or ... could be just about anything! Or randomness!

I remember a number of years ago reading about something where people would leave a sharable book in a random public location just to do a little random act of kindness (and encourage reading ) I think they put some kind of note in there with the name of the project and encouraging the finder to participate. (At any rate, a note indicating it's intentionally gifted would be a good idea.)

This concept of donate-swap with the hide and seek game element could be used with so many different things! (Some might be best to protect with a plastic bag before hiding -- You'd just want to make sure to keep track, so nothing gets left behind environmentally speaking).

I'll now probably spend the afternoon obsessively thinking of all the things this could be done with, lol!

Getting warm.....everyone has great ideas! So far I think I like the books idea best, but they are larger, so might be hard to hide. Maybe would wrap them in foil, or cellophane bags. I like cellophane -- it's the least environmentally damaging of all bags, including better than paper.

Hide seroquel, maybe a lil trileptal or mirapex!

Jk could not resist!

How about using plastic eggs and putting messages inside them? They could be clues for some more detailed kind of game. Maybe the winner gets one grand prize.