Hunt the Treasure -- A New Party Game

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 42, 19 February 1938, Page 10

Hunt the Treasure - - A New Party Game

Before you start, playing this game it would be advisable to ask your parents’ permission. The reason for this will soon be evident: The game is “organised” by one member of the party, perhaps a grownup, who distributes a series of numbered slips of paper in all the rooms—ono in the living-room, where the "treasure hunt” starts —one in the dining-room, in the bedroom, in the liall, bathroom, on rthe staircase, etc., etc.—in othe words the more rooms and places available, the more amusing and exciting will be the game. The players have now to find the different slips of paper, in numerical order. On the first slip is written in which room the second slip is to be found, having found slip 2, the clue as to where slip three can be looked for is read—and so on. It is most amusing when the clues on the slips are something in the nature of riddles. On the last slip is written the hiding place of the "treasure” itself, this can be a bag of sweets which everyone can share, and this last search

should not by any means be any easier than the previous ones! Try this game you can be sure that it will put life into, an otherwise perhaps rather dull party I