Game Design Blog
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49 Treasure Hunt Clues and Ideas
Treasure hunts and scavenger hunts, are fun activities for kids of all ages. They are ideal for a birthday, Christmas, Halloween, or just to pass a rainy afternoon.
The challenge is creating enough fun treasure hunt clues for kids and making them easy enough to solve without being too easy. We’ve therefore put together this list of 49 free treasure hunt ideas and riddles for both younger and older children.
How to create a scavenger hunt How to create a treasure hunt Clue ideas... -
13 Ideas for Murder Mystery Riddles
If you’re creating a murder mystery then clues as to whodunit are an integral part of it. These can be interwoven into the plot and can either be solved as a group, or individually, depending on how you set up the game. Good riddles help keep the game flowing and normally the only reward necessary for solving them is the satisfaction that you're a step closer to finding out whodunit, however you can also give some other rewards:
Play money, if that’s part of the game. A two minute... -
Cryptic Crossword Answers
Return to the guide on solving cryptic crosswords.
Anagram Crossword Answers
In the anagram crossword puzzles I've coloured the components of the clue below, so you can see how each component fits into the overall clue:
Green = Anagram Indicator
Blue = The anagram itself
Purple = The clueAcross
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How to create your own Murder Mystery Party
Murder mystery parties are great fun and good team building activities with the added tension that your team mate might just be the murderer.
There are some good murder mystery boxed games out there, however they won't be adapted to your own group of friends or family, so if you're planning on hosting a murder mystery party one solution is to create your own murder mystery game!
This can seem like a daunting task and if you're not used to creating games, then I'd recommend...
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How to write or design game rules
When you buy a game and open the box, it's exciting to flick through all the cards and admire the board and playing pieces. If you're like me, you will appreciate the details in the artwork and just soak up the whole ambience that any board game, card game or party game has.
When you get to the rules, you may find that your enthusiasm takes a dip.
Players want to play the game right out of the box and find it frustrating having to wade through rules which are surprisingly often...
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Personality Test - Which Geek Are You?
Find out which famous geek you are with our new personality test.
Start the test and see if you're:
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Game design needs more than a good idea
Mankind has enjoyed games for thousands of years, from the earliest ones featuring stones or bones being thrown onto a “board” drawn in the sand, through to the modern video and board games, some of which, such as chess, have also been around for many hundreds of years. But what is it that makes some games a resounding success, whilst others just don’t make it?
Essential features for successful games
Whatever the genre – video games or board games, there are a number of...
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How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords
Anagrams An anagram clue is comprised of 3 parts: A clue to the answer An anagram indicator The anagram itself For example: Drawn-out, rambling and rude (8) Here the anagram is drawn-out, the anagram indicator is rambling and the clue is rude. The answer is untoward. Fail to log red letter? (6) The anagram is log red, the indicator is fail to and the clue is letter This clue ends with ? which means that there's something in the clue that's a trick question. The answer is lodger, a...
