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TREASURE HUNT BRISBANE For Families who Love a Challenge! Are your kids thrilled by the idea of an adventurous treasure hunt? Would they love nothing more than to spend a few hours running around exploring the city while finding stories and clues to the next location? We’ve compiled a list of companies that provide scavenger hunts for families who love a challenge! Botanic Gardens, Brisbane City Hall, and St. Johnʼs Cathedral on this scavenger hunt of Brisbane! Walk from landmark to landmark to discover art, culture and history. Search plaques, statues and art to solve riddles that can only be found on location. If you can’t find the answer, the app will guide you to the next location.
Feel the adventure and exhilaration as your kids get swept up in the excitement of finding their treasure as fast as they can. Organising a treasure hunt would usually take a lot of planning, but because we’re all so busy we recommend outsourcing your next adventure to the experts! Prepare to be rewarded with a treasure chest of smiles! Here’s your first clue…
BREAKOUT BRISBANE
Work with your team to answer trivia questions and complete photo challenges. Earn extra points for each hidden treasure you find and photo your team takes. Can your team beat the Brisbane high score? You can do this interactive scavenger hunt at any time.
Breakout Brisbane offers two treasure hunt type challenges for groups of 10-300. Choose from the Amazing Race style city challenge or the Puzzle Master where they come to a location of your choosing. Amazing Race Style City Challenge: Get out and get active in a treasure hunt race around Brisbane! The Breakout Brisbane City Challenge gives you an opportunity to discover some of Brisbane’s hidden treasures while racing against other teams and the clock. Teammates will have to work together to solve problems and complete challenging tasks all whilst navigating their way through the inner-city location. 2.5 hours in duration. Puzzle Master: Track down the fugitive! You will need to solve a series of clues trying to become the first team to successfully identify the fugitive. For each successful puzzle completed, teams will get a piece of information to help narrow down the pool of suspects. First team to correctly identify the fugitive will win the treasure hunt! 2.5 hours in duration.
LET’S ROAM SCAVENGER HUNT
On this fun-filled, app-led Brisbane treasure hunt, find storied buildings, great green spaces and cultural institutions. See the City
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GEOCACHING BRISBANE
Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices (Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. There are 3,707 active geocaches around Brisbane so there’s plenty of ‘treasure’ hunting options for your family. You can even create your own geocache for others to find! Don’t let the ‘GPS enabled devices’ stress you out. In our case, all that meant was smartphones.
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You can find all the links to Treasure Hunt providers and apps on our website, plus an interactive map showing hundreds of geogache locations in and around Brisbane. Go to www.familiesmagazine. com.au/brisbane-treasure-hunts-for-kids.
Your Local Families Magazine June / July 2021 www.familiesmagazine.com.au