This is a child site meant to attract designers/writers to a proposed published treasure hunt project.
Unlike the rest of Oak Games, this is phone friendly. It might become its own site.
When I was in my mid teens I hiked the trail around Lake Louise. I had a superlative Yes song going through my head. I thought of a mini game called Treasure of the Silver Dragon. Don't ask for details, how it worked, because there never were any. There would have been a map in there. This gave me a great feeling. But nothing came of it.
So what about a treasure hunt, "Treasure of the Silver Dragon"? The prize is fifty silver coins.
.. and, alas, there already is a treasure hunt called "Silver Dragon's Hoard". It's Canada too.
Q: How is Silver Dragon's Hoard different from the proposed Thesaurus Canada?
A: Silver Dragon's Hoard is solving riddles for various amounts of money, not exactly a treasure hunt. It is all online, with no book to buy or physical treasure to pick up.
Also Quebec is verboten.
Tobago
In my
This is a nice little explanation. And it's about a treasure hunt.
I miight buy it. I'll show up at my Trinidadian friend's house "We're playing a board game".
How would you design a board game that is about one or more treasure hunts in Canada?
| Cards for clues. Trading is an option. |
| Weigh all the considerations to decide where to go. |
| Which hunt are you doing? The easy one with the small prize? The one that matches what you are good at? |
| What's the competition up to? Should you co-operate? |
I feel positive about this. But
| Maybe it's nice but not replayable. |
| How are you supposed to know if you chose the right spot? |
| I don't think this business of watching the competition would happen in real life. |
| How would the clues work? |
The side quest?
Treasures and Hunts
Or should it be kept secret?
I'm warming to having a standard prize at $5,000, with some lower. * One prize is $10,000 *. See pazoozas on the Treasure page. The $10,000 prize is a selling point, a cause for excitement.
Also, can you lend me $40,000?
Ghost story! There could be clues to a hunt in a
ghost story. Entertaining, even if you don't figure it out. Debatable glimpses into a different view of the world, in two ways.
A murder mystery might be better from a clues point of view, but that is a bloodier business.
A spy story is not out of the question.
A cloak and dagger themed prize? That sounds dubious even to me, but neat components. "Cloak and dagger" is vague, but a couple of board games (Watergate, Shifty Eyed Spies, maybe Mind Management), books,
mystery thriller, likely a code book,
wallet lock pick set.
And money.
Hidden Gems
Easter Egg Hunt
Silver something or other. Coins. Silver alpaca ..
The lower value prizes can be more colourful.
(Night) Out on the Town. Restaurants, tickets for the show, the game, spendin' money. Casino chips! Local.
Art gallery, play, beer garden ..
Cosy cabin. Games and books and puzzles, an object. NEW Skip the Dishes. What would you do for this prize? Maybe it needs a woman's touch.
A hunt that bends toward the Chinese Canadian crowd. Some Chinese writing.
The prize is nine small gold dragon coins,
for the year of the dragon. Could be in one of those new year envelopes, used to give money.
I would find a way to get in Lanterns, a Chinese Canadian board game.
Some free eatin' at the restaurants in Richmond.
Bit coin and
bat coin.
One of each in a tiny treasure chest. Physical bit coin.
It would please me to have someone on the west coast get a prize that included east coast treats.
Junk food,
drinks including
alcohol. But this is consumables. Alcohol too.
That means going through hoops. An object, e.g. a model ship. Nova Scotia book or two.
I wonder how hard it is to set up a gift card to some store, like Cal's Cacti.
Medical charity raffles, e.g. the Tri-Hospital Dream Lottery, happen. Everybody wins. The treasure finder would get half tickets in an envelope and would not need to fill out anything. Well .. the devil's in the details.
I like that, particularly the higher-value ones.
Arctic themed prize. The arctic has diamonds (hidden gems?). Nunami is a genuine Canadian arctic board game, apparently good too.
The inevitable art work. Toonies, some have glow-in-the dark northern lights (shrugs shoulders).
There are books that have the pages placed randomly and you have to figure it out. We could do something like that, get a poem or something and .. no, that's secret.
Drinks, entire categories, baskets. That's stupid, so no. But I wouldn't be me if I didn't consider it.
What about a map? A classic pirate's x-marks-the spot map?
How about a treasure hunt where the different designers each do one aspect of it? Not going to happen, but something to ponder.