Scavenger Hunts for Private Events
Birthdays, bachelorette weekends, family reunions, the office holiday party. The difference between a nice event and one people talk about is usually just having something to do. Build a hunt, share one link, and let the group run with it.
Why a hunt works at a party
Every event has the same two problems: the awkward first hour, and the photos scattered across twenty camera rolls afterwards. A hunt solves both.
Something to do in the first hour
The stretch while everyone arrives is the hardest part of any party. A hunt gives early arrivals an immediate job and gets strangers talking before the first drink lands.
Everyone's photos in one place
Instead of chasing pictures across a dozen phones the next day, submissions land in one feed the whole group can like and comment on while it is still happening.
Guests just tap a link
No printed sheets, no clipboards, no explaining the rules three separate times. Share one invite link and the hunt is on.
Party mission ideas you can copy
Steal these wholesale or use them as a shape. The best missions are always the ones only your group would understand.
Birthday parties
Works for a nine-year-old's backyard party and a fortieth in a bar. The missions just get less wholesome.
- photo Find something in this house the birthday kid has owned since they were a baby.
- video Fifteen seconds of three guests attempting the birthday person's signature dance move.
- trivia What city were they born in? First team with the right answer takes the point.
- photo Recreate a photo from their childhood. Same pose, wrong decade.
- video Get a ten-second birthday message from whoever here has known them longest.
Bachelorette and bachelor weekends
The classic list, minus the printed sheet that gets soaked by two in the afternoon.
- photo Get a photo with a stranger wearing the same colour as the bride.
- video Convince a bartender to give their best marriage advice on camera. Fifteen seconds.
- gps Check in at the first bar on the list. Yes, everyone. Yes, now.
- trivia Where did the couple go on their first date? No phoning the groom.
- photo Find the tackiest souvenir in the shop and photograph it next to the price tag.
Family reunions
The one event where a hunt genuinely gets the generations mixing.
- photo Team up with a cousin you have not seen in five years and take a photo proving it.
- video Ask the oldest person here for thirty seconds on the family story everyone else tells wrong.
- trivia How many grandchildren are there now? Exact number. No guessing.
- photo Recreate the group photo from the last reunion — same order, same faces where possible.
- gps Check in at the house grandma grew up in. It is four streets from here.
Weddings and holiday parties
Low-effort entertainment for the hours between the ceremony and the dancing.
- photo Photograph one guest from each side of the family, sitting at the same table.
- video Ten seconds of advice for the couple, delivered like a sports commentator.
- trivia What song did they pick for the first dance?
- photo Find the worst jumper at the party and photograph it, with its owner's blessing.
- video Get someone from the leadership team to attempt this year's most annoying dance trend.
A 90-minute bachelorette hunt, downtown
One shape that works for a group moving between venues. The same structure fits a pub crawl, a birthday, or a reunion afternoon.
Share the link over brunch
Everyone joins while the food arrives. Split into two teams, or keep it individual if the group is competitive enough.
The walk between bars
GPS check-ins at each stop turn the dead time between venues into part of the game rather than a logistics problem.
Stranger missions
Photos and fifteen-second videos with people the group has never met. This is where the weekend's best material comes from.
Bride trivia
Questions only the people who have known her longest can answer. Expect arguments and at least one phone call home.
Leaderboard at dinner
Pull the feed up at the table. The photos are already collected, everyone is in them, and nobody had to remember to take them.
Setting one up before the party
An hour is enough for something simple. Give yourself an evening if you want trivia about the guest of honour.
Write missions your group will get
Inside jokes beat generic tasks every time. Twelve to twenty missions across photo, video, GPS and trivia is right for a couple of hours.
Send the link with the invite
Text it, put it in the group chat, or print it on the table cards. Guests play free in the app on their own phones.
Put the leaderboard on a screen
Feed and leaderboard on a laptop or TV at the end of the night turns the scoring into the closing moment of the party.
Party hunt questions
An hour is enough for something straightforward. If you want trivia about the guest of honour or check-ins at specific venues, give yourself an evening — writing the missions is the slow part, not the setup.
Tiers run up to 100 players in a single experience, and there is an unlimited monthly plan for anyone running events regularly. Most private parties fit comfortably inside the 30-player tier.
No. Playing is always free. Guests join with a link and the free app, and only the person creating the experience pays anything.
That is exactly what GPS check-in missions are for. Photo, video and trivia missions do not care where anyone is, so teams can scatter and still compete on the same leaderboard.
Yes. For younger kids, one phone per team works better than one per child — it keeps them talking to each other instead of to a screen, and it means nobody is left out for not having a phone.
Give your guests something to do
Build the hunt tonight, share the link tomorrow. Free to try, and free for every guest who plays.