Treasure and Scavenger Hunts: How to Plan, Create, and Give Them

How to plan, create, and give the party of the year for your family, friends, group, or even city! Step-by-step advice, hundreds of ideas, a ready-made scavenger list, all the details that will make you look like a genius!

Bring back the old-fashioned treasure hunts and scavenger hunts! Better yet, combine them into a super party! Be the host the party of the year! Memories of the crisp fall season bring to mind treasure and scavenger hunts, often a Halloween party theme. Gordon Burgett gives you hundreds of clever ideas for planning parties that will be talked about for years. Includes innovative themes and clues, checklists, safety and timing guides, everything for memorable events for kids, teens and adults.

At last, a how-to book that share the details of planning, creating, and giving the party of the year! Learn:

* How to write fun, challenging clues

* How to avoid problems with safety

* Where to safely hide the items sought

* How to create a beguiling scavenger hunt list

* How to plan a super party around the hunts

* How to add more enjoyment with brainstormers

* What you do with: a "magic checklist"!

More than a step-by-step guide, this book also includes, 12 model Treasure Hunt clues, 120 suggestions for a Scavenger Hunt list, 15 Brainstormers and a 70-item "Magic Checklist" for the Super Party!

Gordon Burgett has published 1,600+ articles and 18 books and has offering about 100 seminars and speeches annually since 1981. He has appeared extensively on radio and TV, as a guest author and a publishing specialist. Burgett is a long-standing member of the National Speakers Association, the American Society of Authors and Journalists, and the Publishers Marketing Association, and has produced 26 audio cassette series and singles. His books include:

How to Create Your Own Super Second Life
Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles
Standard Marketing Procedures for Dentists (with Reece Franklin)
Publishing to Niche Markets
Treasure and Scavenger Hunts
Niche Marketing for Writers, Speakers, and Entrepreneurs
Self-Publishing to Tightly-Targeted Markets
The Travel Writer's Guide
How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance Writing
The Writer's Guide to Query and Cover Letters
Empire-Building by Writing and Speaking
Speaking for Money (with Mike Frank)
Ten Sales from One Article Idea
The Query Book

Four of Burgett's books have been Writer's Digest Book Club top choices: Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles, The Travel Writer's Guide, The Writer's Guide to Query and Cover Letters, and How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance Writing.

Gordon Burgett is the creator of Age Masters, an Internet acknowledgment and listing service for athletic achievements in running, walking, cycling, swimming and wheeling. ()

In addition, Burgett has owned and directed a publishing company, Communication Unlimited, since 1981. It specializes in books, reports, and cassettes about writing, empire-building, and niche publishing. In 1995 the company doubled in size, adding Dental Communication Unlimited and Medical Communica-tion Unlimited and beginning a series of standard operating procedures manuals for professionals. ()

Earlier, with four degrees, Burgett was twice an university dean, taught Portuguese and history, created a city recreation program in Illinois, directed CARE programs in Colombia and Ecuador, twice studied in Brazil, played professional baseball, and led a gold hunt up the Paushi Yaco (Upper Amazon) River in Ecuador.