This is what the smart device world was missing!!
Yesterday I successfully completed my first Klikaklu treasure hunt and it was a HUGE success!!! The birthday party theme was Legos, so I set up 9 points in my treasure hunt and I placed a small ziplock baggie with parts from a Lego toy. I had 3 teams, and 3 Lego toys, so I had 3 little color coded baggies at each point. Klikaklu has an awesome feature of "Staggered Treasure Hunt" and what that does is as each team logs in, it starts them at a different point. That way I didnt have to worry about any team cheating by watching another team find a point. They were too busy following the map, looking for their clues and I had the hunt spaced out just enough to make that work great. As each team got to the clue and matched the photo, I revealed the "Reward" which was a picture of where the Legos were hidden which was in the vicinity of the clue. I did it this way because each clue wasnt necessarily a good place to hide, so once the found the clue, they then had to identify the hidden treasure. I had 3 teams of around 15 kids total. Each team had an adult "team leader" that just made sure the kids didnt get too far off track. Even though Klikaklu is currently only for iPhone, we did our treasure hunt using 2 iPads and 1 iPad Mini. If you dont have a cellular plan with your iPad, youll need a Wifi hot spot for the location functionality to work. We had a "roving hot spot" and it worked great!! I am so impressed with everything about this app. The UX design is super slick and the only minor challenge we noticed was reading some of the hints in the direct sunlight with an Otterbox screen protector that reflected the sun, but that was more the screen protector causng that problem. Plain and simple, the way the app just works and makes sense to use - very intuitive and above all, its fun. Everyone one of the kids, from ages 6 to 13 had a complete blast and it was easily their favorite part of the party which included kickball. I mean anything that is more fun than kickball has to be awesome right? One more thing - when I was deciding on whether this app was going to do what I needed, I emailed support to ask if I purchased the premium version, if the people playing my hunt also had to have premium. Before I had walked another 10 minutes, I already had an answer back telling me no, the "Players" only needed the basic version. That kind of support on an app that is designed to be a fun tool, a learning tool and a means to get kids involved in things like learning to read and navigate by a map is an app worth paying for. I wholeheartedly recommend purchasing this app and setting up your own treasure or scavenger hunts and get your kids to turn off the game console, get off the couch and get involved in an adventure! Before the party was over, there were several people that wanted to know more about the app and use it for their family and even for a youth group. Without question, I give this app 5 stars. It does my heart good to know that we still have inventive, creative people here in America creating products that are both useful in learning and fun. Great job!!!!
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