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Ideas for treasure hunt and escape room challenges for ten-year-olds

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TSnewbie · 28/08/2026 09:08

This weekend I'm organising a treasure hunt for the birthday of my son (he's 10) with 10 of his friends. He originally wanted to do a real escape room, but for 10 kids together, it would be quite a lot of money. I'm looking to insert some 'escape room' riddles/games in my treasure hunt but am running out of ideas.
For now, the plan is that they would have to find an envelope with a first clue of where to go; go to a new location to do a game/riddle/activity at which point they get a new location etc. For games, I thought of so far:

  • recognising objects in a shoebox
  • making a tangram puzzle
  • taste test to identify which flavour is what
  • mathmatics puzzle to find a code for a key lock
Would you have some further fun ideas? Ideally, it would be challenges that are appealing to different types of kids as I want to give each of them a chance to get the answer. Many thanks for ideas!
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