How to Create Content for a Scavenger Hunt

Before a Scavenger Hunt begins, the museum staff is responsible for configuring the content for the game. Follow these steps to build your organization's Scavenger Hunt:

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Scavenger Hunt Bundle Example: (A "bundle" is when a resource is sent to the Scanveger Hunt with a clue, hint, question, and answer.)

• Clue: Small white circles connected by thin wire balance opposite a thicker orange wire weighted by an orange rudder-like shape.
• Hint 1: It’s in Heaven and Earth
• Hint 2: It’s all on the table
• Hint 3: Not all mobiles hang from the ceiling
• Question: What’s the first word in the title?
• Answer: Orange

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Create a Clue

• Access the resource you want to include in the Scavenger Hunt > click "Describe"
  • Text: Include your clue here.
  • Metum: Scavenger Hunt: Clue
  • Click "Create Description"
• In the resource's list of representations, click "Edit" next to the "Scavenger Hunt: Clue" that you would like to officially include in the Scavenger Hunt.
  • Status: Approved
  • IMPORTANT: only 1 clue should have "approved status.

Create an Question

• Access the resource you want to include in the Scavenger Hunt > click "Describe"
  • Text: Include your clue here.
  • Metum: Scavenger Hunt: Question
  • Click "Create Description"
• In the resource's list of representations, click "Edit" next to the "Scavenger Hunt: Question" that you would like to officially include in the Scavenger Hunt.
  • Status: Approved
  • IMPORTANT: only 1 question should have "approved" status.

Create an Answer

• Access the resource you want to include in the Scavenger Hunt > click "Describe"
  • Text: Include the answer to your Question here.
  • Metum: Scavenger Hunt: Answer
  • Click "Create Description"
• In the resource's list of representations, click "Edit" next to the "Scavenger Hunt: Answer" that you would like to officially include in the Scavenger Hunt.
  • Status: Approved
  • IMPORTANT: only 1 answer should have "approved" status.

Create Hints

• Access the resource you want to include in the Scavenger Hunt > click "Describe"
  • Text: Include your hint here.
  • Ordinality (not required): add an integer to the ordinality field to specify what order the hints will be viewed by the player.
  • Metum: Scavenger Hunt: Hint
  • Click "Create Description"
• In the resource's list of representations, click "Edit" next to the "Scavenger Hunt: Hint" that you would like to officially include in the Scavenger Hunt.
  • Status: Approved
  • IMPORTANT: Many hints can have "approved" status.

Add a Clue Position (not required)

• The Scavenger Hunt: Position Metum exists so that the content manager can specify what order the clues should be delivered to the player.
• Access the resource you want to include in the Scavenger Hunt > click "Describe"
  • Text: Insert an integer here that specifies where in the game you'd like the clue to fall.
  • Metum: Scavenger Hunt: Clue Position
  • Click "Create Description"
• In the resource's list of representations, click "Edit" next to the "Scavenger Hunt: Clue Position" that you would like to officially include in the Scavenger Hunt.
  • Status: Approved
  • IMPORTANT: only 1 clue position should have "approved" status.