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

How to plan a super party your friends, co-workers, kids, or kin will be talking about forever! The magic ingredients? A TREASURE HUNT, a SCAVENGER HUNT, and BRAINSTORMERS! What makes this a once-in-a-lifetime SPECIAL PARTY? You’ll create your own clues (it's easy and fun—we'll show you how), then just follow the book’s ready-to-go party instructions. walks you through it all, step by step… The book provides all of the details needed to amuse, delight, and bewilder your family and friends at the party of the year! It shows what you do when. It includes hundreds of ideas, a "magic checklist," and a ready-made scavenger list—precisely what you need to know and do to make you properly look like a genius! Bring back the old-fashioned treasure and scavenger hunts! Better yet, combine them into a super party! Be the host of the year! Here, Gordon Burgett gives you hundreds innovative themes and clues, a script, safety and timing guides, everything for memorable events for kids, teens, and adults. Learn... * How to write fun, challenging clues * How to avoid problems with safety * How to create a beguiling scavenger hunt list * How to plan a super party around the hunts * Where to hide the items sought so they're never taken * How to add more enjoyment with brainstormers Even more than a step-by-step guide, this book also includes 23 model Treasure Hunt clues, 145 suggestions for a Scavenger Hunt list, 15 Brainstormers, and a 70-item checklist for the Super Party! What are BRAINSTORMERS? They're Gordon’s invention. They will make your party the best ever. There are 15 of them in the book, and once you get the hang of them, you can create another dozen right away. (You'll only need 6-12 total to keep your hunters frothing with fun.) Hunts for adults, teens, kids… They can be inside your house or school or church, in a park or yard, within a city block, or city- or county-wide… Hunts that can include cars, feet, phones, computers, digital cameras—or the players can be immobile! How many can take part in the hunt? Four or 40 or a whole city. (An entire NJ town once used this book to plan their massive outing!) Hunts can be for your family, friends, church, company, cruise, lodge… Who doesn't love treasure and scavenger hunts? Here’s the book that shows you how.

He has also published 1,600+ articles and 21 books and has offered about 100 seminars and speeches annually since 1981. He has appeared extensively on radio and TV, as a guest author and a publishing / second-life 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 other 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
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 Communication 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.