About QR Treasure Hunt
TL;DR
The long story
When I was a child, our parents made a treasure hunt in our house. They gave us a drawing of the radio. When we went there, there was a drawing of some other place we had to find. I assume there was a treasure in the end, although it was the hunt itself that I remember.
«It’s not about the destination, but the journey.» - unknown
When I got a child myself, I wanted to give her the same treasure hunt experience. I soon discovered that my limited drawing knowledge and time would also limit both the times I could make - as well as the success rates of the treasure hunts.
This was at the time when QR codes had started becoming widely available. I therefore made a treasure hunt app that could scan QR codes. I took photos of various locations in our house and put a QR code in each place. Once a QR code was scanned, the photo of the next location showed up etc. It worked well and we had a lot of fun with it.
There are a lot of similar apps available, e.g. ActionBound or TurfHunt, but often they are more advanced, requiring uploading pictures to the internet. I often prefer to make things as simple as possible.
«Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler» - Roger Sessions (often attributed to Albert Einstein)
Now, I have grand child, and I wanted to give him the treasure hunt experience. My app was a bit outdated and only worked on ios. So I decided to create it as a web app.
The result is here: https://qr-treasurehunt.github.io
Happy treasure hunting!