Quests for adults

Just to sit at the table or relax, "magic" over the barbecue, is a traditional rest, which cannot be called diverse and even more unusual. Now is the time for activities, when ordinary gatherings with friends or a festive program for a birthday need to be organized, prepared in advance, and filled with interesting content. Quests have become a familiar, albeit still experimental form of organizing such leisure activities. Everyone loves them - and adults too.

The word "quest" stands for search or adventure. This is a game that went from online to offline. One team (or several if the quest is competitive) must step by step perform tasks, search and logical tasks, be smart and, of course, demonstrate team support.

Previously, these types of activities were ordered from firms that specialize in organizing quests. But there is also a more affordable option - to organize it yourself. And it is not only cheaper, but also very interesting - both for the organizers and for the participants.

The quest organization algorithm consists of a number of sequential steps.

1. Understand the topic and focus. For this, the contingent of future participants is assessed: how old they are, how many, gender, degree of acquaintance, occupation, interests.
2. Write out the plan of the quest: who prepares the tasks, who prepares the props, who calculates the timing. Of course, it also happens that absolutely everything is done by one person. He then also takes on the role of the presenter. But still, working as a team on creating a quest is much more effective.
3. You also need to choose a jury, experts, a counting commission - in a word, those who will evaluate the players.
4. Formation of the prize fund. A quest is not a quest without prizes. This is not necessarily money (this form of encouragement is the least common), rather, memorable gifts, personalized awards, that is, cups, medals, certificates, diplomas, letters - all this works great on the search game. This is always a pleasure for the participants.
5. Distribution of invitations, musical arrangement and other organizational moments.

The second challenge is challenging, but many adults find it immensely enjoyable to create search games from scratch. You can make a mix: combine original findings with contests and assignments found on the Internet.

Game for adults is always more intellectual, since not all adults can be sport-oriented, and active contests are not always appropriate (for example, the team is of different ages, there are also elderly people). But even based on mental tasks, you can create a wonderful fun game that is exciting for different generations.

Let's list what a generic scenario usually includes.

• Puzzles and similar tasks. These can be complex puzzles, logical problems, charades, anagrams, encryption. Such tasks are usually included at the beginning of the game to tune in to an intellectual marathon.

• Funny contests and challenges. Passed - earned a point for the team. For example, the Voiceover competition. True, it requires an express reaction from the organizers, but it turns out great. A certain phrase sounds from the lips of popular movie characters. It should be pronounced in a characteristic voice by each member of the team. For example, all participants should congratulate the birthday person with the voices of Lelik from the Diamond Hand and the cat Matroskin. And while the participants continue the quest, the organizer quickly puts the voice recorded on the dictaphone on the video, mounts it and demonstrates the result before the final stage of the quest.

• Collecting a single whole from fragments. It can be a map (with the location of the treasure) or some kind of code word that gives an answer to the main search question.

• Unexpected hints. They always work and surprise the participants. For example, in a fight for a win, a stranger calls some of the participants and gives a hint. Or it is inserted as the 25th frame in the video job.

Very often, game quests are arranged in nature, on the street. An outdoor birthday always goes well, even if it is all organized in modest conditions in the country.

Let's give an example of a scenario plan for a quest set up in nature.

• Acquaintance. Let's say that the company gathered at the holiday is not quite familiar with each other. Therefore, the first point of the quest will be a task where all participants are required to get to know each other in a creative way. They must be paired. Everyone will have a sheet, a pen and only 5 words about themselves, no more. Based on these 5 words, the partner must compose a story about who wrote these words. And present to everyone. Each story - 1 point or 1 key to progress in the quest (overall points or a fragment of the search card).

• Break the cipher. In a hollow (in a flowerbed, in an attic, under a stone - anywhere) there is an old encryption hidden. Quest participants are given 3-5 minutes to decipher its meaning. The organizer takes any encryption methods: from pictures to the numerical value of letters. The more interesting the encryption options are, the longer the participants may need to take.

• Riddles with live answers. The leader makes riddles, the answers to which are located right on the playing area. Participants must check the box next to the answer they find. For example: "There is a wonderful tree, on the tree there are balls, green in summer, ruddy in autumn." The answer is "apple tree".In a word, you need to play up what is on the street.

• Tasting with letters. It's simple: each participant will have to try with their eyes closed what the host will offer him on a platter. He doesn't have to say what it is. But when he takes off the bandage, on the piece of paper he must write his number and the first letter of the word that denotes the product. For example, they give him a cherry, and he writes on a piece of paper: 1B. And so all the participants, except for the captain. The captain collects the leaves and from the letters gets a new key word, for example, "gate". This means that there is a new piece of the map at the gate.

• Final task. This is the culmination of the quest, so it should keep everyone on their toes as much as possible. You can arrange it like a blitz from “What? Where? When?" or offer to play street bowling with pins. It can also be a penalty shootout if the participants are in the mood for a sports final, and there is an impromptu goal and a ball in nature.

As a result of the quest, the participants either gain the required number of points, or, more interestingly, collect the card. And the map tells them where to go for the prize. This should be an unpredictable place, so that it is not associated with previous assignments. At this point, players will find either a prize or a search object. For example, in the scenario they are researchers looking for a rare dinosaur species. And in the end they will find a toy dinosaur, for which they will receive prizes.

There are universal tasks that are perfect for an indoor quest and will be relevant in the case of a street version. Consider a few interesting tasks that are easily implemented in an apartment.

• Search for a gift. A diagram with arrows is drawn up in advance, where the seekers should go. Or the moderator himself gives hints only after the participants answer his questions.

• Multimedia. Video questions can be played back on the TV. For example, fragments of films that the participants must guess (or continue with a quote from the film). You can also show a photo of the birthday person if the quest is held on a birthday - the participants must guess the age of the hero in the photo.

• We are looking for a map. Fragments of the map can be hidden all over the house. But to look for them, speaking conventionally, you cannot manually. You can only receive text prompts after completing tasks. For example, you have solved the puzzle, it says "microwave", therefore, the first element of the card must be looked for there. Then - they managed to find on the collage of drawings a small, cut out of a magazine word "box", which means that the next fragment of the map will lie in it.

• Questions from the ceiling. At a certain point, the facilitator leads the participants to another room. There, ropes with twisted sheets are suspended from the ceiling with duct tape. You can hang them in any other convenient and safe way. Each participant rips one question from the ceiling and answers it. When all the questions have been answered, the participants put them into sentences and receive a new hint on the map. For example, the expression "Vase, flowers, kitchen, windowsill" was obtained from the answers. This means that a new fragment of the map is located under the vase.

For example, men can be offered to make a 10-second study with a gymnastic ribbon, and women - “blindly” to make several chess moves with a real and “sighted” opponent.

Having drawn up a map, the participants should go in search of the treasure. It must be a place that is impossible to guess right away.And if it is difficult to imagine such an option, one of the organizers hides the treasure in the designated place 5 minutes before the search. For example, he puts a chest with a treasure outside the front door. You can also hide the treasure in a box from under the cake, which is supposedly in the usual way taken out into the room for the players to treat themselves after the game.

For an adult quest in the style of Fort Boyard, see the video below.