Scavenger Hunt
A scavenger hunt (from the English : [skævɪnʤɚ hʌnt] ) is the American equivalent of the scavenger hunt . Like the scavenger hunt in Germany, the Scavenger Hunt is known to a wide audience in America. These are already carried out on children's birthdays. Events for adults ( bachelor parties , team building , leisure time, etc.) are also known.
course
The biggest difference is in the linearity . While you have to find and work through one clue after the other in a scavenger hunt, the Scavenger Hunt allows significantly more freedom: At the beginning of a specified period of time, a list of tasks is published that earn a different number of points. The participants can now solve as many of these tasks as possible in small teams. However, there is neither a fixed order nor compulsory tasks. If a team decides not to tackle a particular task, for example because the task is perceived as too difficult, the task can be skipped or resumed later. In this way, the teams collect points within the specified period in order to determine the winning team in the end.
History and origin
It is impossible to say who invented the concept of the Scavenger Hunts or where exactly it happened. However, Finnish game scientist Markus Montola states that Scavenger Hunts evolved from ancient popular games. The American journalist Elsa Maxwell is often blamed for the game's popularity in modern times . This hosted a series of parties in the 1930s where they invited their guests to participate in Scavenger Hunts. She later covered the parties in her daily columns. There are parallels to games like Hash House Harriers , which was made in Kuala Lumpur in December 1938 .
Unlike geocaching , Scavenger Hunt does not need coordinates . Instead, things have to be found or tasks have to be solved.
The word "scavanger" derives from the medieval custom of levying taxes (so-called scavage). The collector of these taxes was called a "scavager". While the practice was discontinued in 1503, the word - to which an "n" was added in the course of the 16th century - remained in use. “Scavanger” was the term used to describe people, but above all animals, who were looking for a wide variety of things (often rubbish). For this reason, animals such as vultures and other scavengers are often given the term today . Dictionaries also translate the term as "jd looking for discarded but still usable things" or as "rag picker" and "street sweeper".
Variations
There are variations of the game in which the players have to take photos or videos of their respective solutions in order to pass them on to the jury. In this way, a large number of teams can compete against each other, which do not know each other and which do not have to meet in a certain place.
Variants are now known that can be played with the help of apps . Elements of augmented reality can also be used to display additional computer-generated content.
Scavenger Hunts at (German) universities
Scavenger Hunts are held regularly at US universities. The most popular example of this is certainly the University of Chicago's Scavenger Hunt. Since 1987, students have been organizing an exciting “hunt” for their fellow students here. The Scavenger Hunts have now also arrived at German universities. Bremen , Bochum , Kassel , Wiesbaden , Pforzheim , Bremerhaven , Gießen and Emden are just a few of the cities in which Scavenger Hunts have already taken place.
Individual evidence
- ^ Patricia Marx: The Hunter Games . In: The New Yorker . June 25, 2012, ISSN 0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed January 16, 2018]).
- ↑ What in the Word ?! On a 'scavenger' hunt - OxfordWords blog . In: OxfordWords blog . November 2, 2017 ( oxforddictionaries.com [accessed January 23, 2018]).
- ↑ scavenger - English-German translation | PONS. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
- ↑ scavenger - LEO: Translation in English ⇔ German dictionary. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
- ↑ IJIKM - HUNT: Scavenger Hunt with augmented reality. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
- ^ Keeper of the Scrolls: The University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .