Outdoor Scavenger Hunts
This type of adventure is great for outdoor venues such as zoos, parks, historical sites, and nature centers. Destinations in the scavenger hunt can include text clues, picture clues, sound clues, GPS homing sensor, and interactive questions.

To see this kind of adventure in action, check out the “African Animal Explorer” adventures at multiple zoos.

Indoor Scavenger Hunts
This type of adventure is great for indoor venues such as art museums, libraries, science museums, and aquariums. Destinations in the scavenger hunt can include text clues, picture clues, sound clues, and interactive questions.

To see this kind of adventure in action, check out the “Many Face of George Washington” adventure at Mount Vernon.

Trail/Garden Guide
This type of adventure is great for venues where personal interpretation is impractical or unavailable, such as urban trails or large parks. Destinations use text, streaming audio/video, pictures, aerial map, and GPS proximity sensor to sharing stories and supplemental information about various landmarks.

Simple Games and Challenges
This type of adventure is great for any venue that wants visitors to look closely, such as art museums, libraries, and science museums. Destinations can challenge visitors to complete certain tasks or solve riddles. For example, visitors could play Eye Spy to identify works of art.

Place-based Mysteries and Comic Book Adventures
This type of narrative adventure is great for any venue with a story to tell that wants to add a whole new layer to the visitor experience. It is a great way to showcase existing mascots, characters, and/or historical figures. Visitors take the lead in solving mysteries or advancing a story. Destination can use text or illustrated images to advance the narrative, and interactive questions to elicit interaction.

To see this kind of adventure in action, check out the “Founders Quest” adventure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Special Event Activity
GPTrex adventures can be instantly turned on and off to accommodate time-limited events. This type of adventure is great for venues with repeat visitors as it provides a new game/experience for each special event. For example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science developed a special candy cane scavenger hunt for families during their seasonal Santa Train event.

*Unless otherwise noted, individual adventures are “unofficial.” They are neither associated with nor approved by the venue site/organization.

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