Birthday hunts

Turn your house into a treasure hunt
Monsters included.

Hide QR codes around the house and garden. The kids scan them, hunt treasure, fight monsters and crown a champion — no app, no accounts, nothing collected from a child.

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Free — one trail, 10 players, no card.

  • Ready in 10 minutes
  • One sheet to print
  • No app, no accounts
  • First hunt free

What the party finds

Treasure and gear

Swords, shields, potions, coins. Every card a team scans goes into its pack, and gear makes the fights easier — the kid who found the shield knows exactly why the dragon missed.

Monsters to fight

A fight is a duel on the phone — tap when the opening comes round. Gear tunes the fight; the tap wins it. Losing costs a few coins and the monster waits for the rematch.

A champion to crown

The board keeps score all afternoon. Highest coins at cake time wins, and every finisher keeps a badge.

Ten minutes of setup, most of it with scissors

1

Pick a story

The library is ready-made: Pirate Cove, Dinosaur Dig Adventure, The Odyssey. The Great Cake Rescue is written for five-year-olds and still ends on a boss.

2

Print one sheet

One PDF, one code per card, cut lines included. A home printer and ordinary paper are enough.

3

Hide the codes

Under a chair, in the bookcase, up the tree. Somewhere a kid can hold a phone about a foot away.

4

Start the hunt

Teams join with a team name on one phone per team. You press Start and watch the board fill up.

What it costs

Playing is always free — the party installs nothing and pays nothing. What you pick is who writes the story.

Start here

Your first hunt

Tonight, from the library

Free
  • Every ready-made story in the library
  • The board, the duels, the badges
  • The printable sheet, cut lines included
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The party pack

A story written around your party

$29 one payment
  • The birthday kid's name on the cards — you write them
  • Written around your house and guest list
  • Room for the whole guest list
Get the party pack

Start free and the pack is one button on your organization page. One payment, no subscription — nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. Want the birthday kid in the story? Describe the party to your AI assistant and it writes the cards.

Questions parents ask

Five and up. A fight is a duel on the phone — tap when the opening comes round — so it is tapped out, never calculated. The Great Cake Rescue is written for five-year-olds and ends on a boss.

One per team. Two or three kids around one phone is the trail working as designed — somebody scans, somebody navigates, somebody argues about where the next code is.

No. A team joins with a team name and nothing else. No app, no email, nothing at all collected from a child.

They lose a few coins, never a card. Run out of strength and they sit out sixty seconds, then come back at half strength — and the monster is still there for the rematch.

A dozen codes runs about an hour. Beating the boss ends the quest, not the hunt — every code still hidden still scans and still scores, so the fast kid is not bored while the cake is cut.

Yes. Put outdoor codes in a sandwich bag — one shower turns paper into a grey rectangle — and check phone signal where you hide them.

Your first hunt is free — one trail, ten players, no card. The party pack is $29, paid once: write the story yourself, thirty players on the board, and nothing to cancel when the party is done.

Print the codes tonight

The party runs itself tomorrow. Start with a ready-made story, or ask for the party pack.

Start your organization Get the party pack

Free — one trail, 10 players, no card.