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Description
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This
is an extremely interactive and intensely
fun program that is great for either your
own floor, or your floor and your brother/sister
floor that integrates team work, leadership,
fast paced action, and competition and fun
like no other program you've seen yet.
You
need a good number of people (30ish) and
people willing to carpool those people (5ish)-
helps if there is one driver per team of
5 to participate in this event. *Check with
your supervisor about your institutions
policies for programs like this. You need
to be aware of liability issues anytime
students go off campus or are transported
as part of an activity.
Teams
have a specific amount of time and a limited
number of places to visit and several rules
to adhere to in order to obtain the biggest
and best items.
The
winning team gets a really big prize.
Instructions :
Get
2 other leaders to help you organize/prepare
for this event. It seems like a lot of work,
but it really isn't if you have the extra
help. It helps to have at least 3 event
coordinators/judges total (other RAs, RDs,
or the like) to give a fair amount of consideration
for each team. However, these people CANNOT
in any way participate in the game; they
can only observe and follow teams to make
sure everything they do is legit. Or, you
may want to have team captains who just
keep track of the rules but still who don't
directly help in getting items for their
teams.
Determine
together with your leaders what the Big
Prize will be... remember, it needs to be
enough for however many people you are allowing
to be on a team... will it be a gift certificate
for them to go out to eat or to the movies
together? Or will they each get a $25 gift
card to the local mall? You decide what's
biggest/best!
Put
out a lot of advertising early on, at least
four weeks in advance, and change flyers
each week up to the day prior to the event
(see attached). Don't tell anyone except
your leaders how the game will work- you
don't want people figuring out ahead of
time where they need to go to win. Feel
free to alter any of the flyers to your
floor specifications.
Other
supplies you will need for each team are as
follows:
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plastic
grocery bags
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copies of The List (you make it up) Come
up with funny items.
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pencils
A
sign up is strongly suggested, just so
you can plan on how many drivers/cars
you will need. Make sure you have a place
on the signup for people to indicate they
are willing to drive AND have a car.
You
will need about 5-10 minutes to quickly
go over the rules with the participants
before it begins, so factor that into
how long you are planning the event to
go on. Typically they only have 30 minutes
FLAT to do this scavenger hunt, add in
about 10-15 minutes of rules in the beginning,
and about 15-30 minutes at the end for
judging. And if you decide to go to a
local mall instead of just around town,
factor in driving time as well.
THE
RULES
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Teams
start in the same central location, and
that is the location they will also be returning
to at the end of the 30 minutes... if you're
sticking to the town, meet at a central
location on campus. If going to a mall or
local business route, pick one central location
there.
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All
teams must have same number of people, one
driver, and one car.
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Team
members must be with their own team at all
times and cannot split up.
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Teams
start out going in different locations and
cannot follow other teams or copy what they
do.
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Items
cannot be traded, bought, stolen, obtained
via threatening, or found and must come
from interacting with people whom they do
NOT know, such as: convenient mart/gas station
people, mall vendors, restaurant employees,
etc., depending on where you decide to have
the event.
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All
teams start out with the same item, which
is one toothpick. Their mission is to then
find people who will GIVE them one item
that is either slightly bigger than a toothpick
or better than a toothpick. The succeeding
items must continue in this way, bigger
and better than the previously obtained
item.
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Items
must come from 25 different people in the
allotted area, with a signature next to
each item gathered on The List from each
person.
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Teams
must gather AND KEEP 25 items that are at
least bigger/better than the toothpick,
with the last being the biggest and best
of their items. They get extra bonus points
for getting any items mentioned on The List.
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They
get 5 points per correct kind of item (meaning
the items get bigger/better with each one),
0 points per wrong kind of item, and then
possible bonus points for being extra creative
(5 more extra points, totaling 10 for a
really good item). Whoever has the most
creative last item also gets a Bigger/Better
Bonus of 25 points.
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The
team that has signatures and origins of
all their items, all the correct kinds of
items, the most points, and the most creative
last item wins (one team in the past somehow
talked a jewerly salesperson to give them
a piece of pricy display jewelry for example).
Adrienne
Mallery
Valley Forge Christian College
a_mallery@vfcc.edu
Flyer
Ideas:
If
any of you would prefer these flyers in MS word,
plesae let
me know and I'll create Word versions of
the flyers
Variations
on this program:
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What
can you get for a dollar? Give
each RA a dollar coin and give them 30 minutes
to go around the hall and "Trade it
up" for the best possible item. (ie,
the first person may give them a plant for
their dollar. The next person may give them
a stuffed animal for their plant. The next
person gives them a CD for their stuffed
animal, and so on.
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