Here are some tips, tricks, and a bit of advice.
- Make Google Drive documents that are shared among your team members. Use it to work on the Slideshow submission together and update each other on clue progress.
- The clues are very diverse, so make sure your team also has a diverse set of skills.
- LEARN NEW SKILLS. It’s pretty cool to come out of something this fun having learned something as useful as video editing etc. and there’s nothing like a deadline to help you do it.
- Create a copy of the clue list, and highlight, underline, and bold any clues with a specified time and date. Make sure that you don’t miss these because you can’t make them up! (but make sure to continue checking the original document, as we may continue to make small changes during the Hunt itself)
- Always, ALWAYS turn the phone sideways.
- Borrow a camera from the library or from a friend. They’re better quality than a phone camera, and the videos are easier to transfer and edit.
- Make a GroupMe or some other type of group chat. That way you can send a text to all your members with any important or time sensitive information.
- There might be a clue that requires you to drop everything and run in search of something hidden in a few possible places. As soon as the list is out make sure every member of the team has a specific place that they will run to. This way you don’t have to waste precious time deciding when it’s time to go.
- Don’t leave the Slideshow for the last moment. Make sure you’re working on it over the course of the two days.
- Don’t think – just do!
- Captains: have your phone on you. There will be points throughout The Hunt where you will be texted with time sensitive information. If you don’t have your phone on you, it may cost you some points. (Note: We will never text you between 11pm and 9am because that is cruel and unusual for the both of us)
- Keep your phone charger on you. The cold weather, combined with constant texting and videography, will drain your battery.
- Be nice to the other teams – you never know when you might need their help (there is also something to be said in the name of common decency).
- Try not to pull an all-nighter on the first night of the Hunt. (Try not to pull an all-nighter period)
- Set up a headquarters. A place your team can call home for 48 hours!
- See two clues that work well together? Save time and combine them! Also feel free to integrate a clue as a kind of running joke throughout multiple others (with potential for bonus points).
- Bring it.