Probably, each of us loves holidays, especially when they are dedicated to us. But when a loved one becomes the hero of the occasion, the problem of choosing a gift arises. Moreover, this gift should be original, modern, beautiful, fashionable, and sometimes inexpensive. Nowadays, there are many different gift shops, whose windows are literally full of the most outlandish gifts.
But love and attention cannot be bought in stores. Thanks to DIY treasure hunting quest Irina Bondarenko prepared it for her husband’s birthday. Well, for the New Year 2021, the quest can be supplemented with a cool video greeting from Santa Claus, there are options for big boys too :).
How to organize a quest for your husband in an apartment or house?
1. Prepare a surprise - a nice little thing or a more significant gift. Sign a romantic card.
On the postcard you can write some playful compliment that puts you in a romantic mood, congratulations on winning a quest, or a declaration of love.
Yes, yes, precisely recognition, because often these words seem self-evident and cease to be heard.
2. Choose 5-7 places in an apartment or house and make up clues.
Don't make them too difficult, let the quest be a romantic game, not an IQ test.
3.Explain the meaning of the game.
On the first clue, write a short explanation for your husband about what he needs to do to find the “surprise”. For example, as it was done on this postcard.
4.Hide the “surprise” and clues.
5.Give your husband the first clue.
For example, if the “surprise” is a gift, put the hint in a gift box and pack it according to all the rules with bows and ribbons and give it to your loved one. Or, for example, save the hint as a screensaver on your desktop.
The method can be any. The main thing is that the husband gets a hint and is intrigued.
Basic recommendations
To make the quest for your beloved husband’s birthday interesting and exciting, prepare a script and the necessary details in advance. The goal of the game is to make sure that the spouse finds a surprise after a chain of small tasks or solving riddles and puzzles. What is needed for this:
- Determine the place where you will hide the gift.
- Come up with a chain of tasks or hidden objects that will lead the birthday boy to the coveted prize. Hints can be placed in a variety of places: a closet, a washing machine, a flower pot, dishes. Please note: they should not intersect with each other so that the treasure is not found ahead of time.
- Design your messages, letters, riddles in some original and beautiful way. You can use any available materials: small envelopes, colored paper, beautiful cardboard or ready-made templates.
- To avoid getting confused, write down a chain of things and tips on a piece of paper, which you then put in the right places.
Do not overload the game with a large number of tasks (think about 6-10). If they are difficult, it is enough to use 5-6 so that the quest does not turn out to be too boring and tedious. There may be more simple puzzles: if they turn out to be interesting, the birthday boy will be happy to get involved in the game even with 15 stages.
The hobby will be more fun if during the game the husband finds several intermediate gifts. But at the end he should still receive the main present and holiday greetings.
In room
If you want to surprise your husband for his birthday, you can arrange a quest without going outside. The area of an apartment or house is perfect for an exciting event.
Think in advance about the places where you will hide the tasks and the clues. We offer the following options:
- a balloon with a note inside;
- a soft toy with a message in its paws;
- a plate with a pie;
- audio or video hint;
- text on pages on social networks;
- closet;
- jacket pocket;
- sofa cushions;
- microwave;
- fridge.
Choose places where your husband will not immediately find the clue. Use all rooms, as well as the balcony, corridor, bath.
Hint options:
- The husband finds a certain number of letters from which to form a word.
- A crossword with vertical boxes outlined with a bright marker. As soon as the player guesses all the words, a hint will appear in the cells.
- An SMS message that will be sent to your spouse’s mobile phone.
- Take a photo of the room and mark with a cross the place where the next clue is hidden. Cut the image into squares - you get puzzles that the birthday person must assemble to find the answer.
You can use ready-made hints or come up with something original. The main thing is to put love and imagination into preparing the quest!
You can start the game like this:
- hand over the envelope with the first task personally;
- send an email or SMS message;
- stick a note on the mirror, attach it to the wall or put it in a visible place;
- deliver the first task by courier;
- ask your friend to give your spouse the envelope.
The text of the starting message could be something like this: “Darling, happy birthday! A surprise awaits you, which is safely hidden. Complete all the tasks and you will get what you have long dreamed of!”
On the street
A surprise can be arranged not only in the house, but also in an open space: in a park, in a country house, in nature. The entertainment is suitable for a cheerful company: if the husband invites friends, colleagues or relatives to the holiday, everyone will happily go looking for a gift.
In addition to the main present for the birthday boy, prepare small souvenirs for the quest participants.
Where you can place tasks:
- trees;
- sand;
- garden furniture;
- alcove;
- swing;
- barbecue;
- automobile;
- fence.
Ideas for a street quest:
- Treasure map. Draw or photograph a map of the area where the game will take place. Mark where the “artifacts” are hidden. At each point you need to find tasks, and after completing them, players receive an intermediate prize. When all stages are completed, participants will be able to exchange their “artifacts” for gifts in the gazebo. The game will be even more exciting if you choose a specific theme that is close to the birthday boy: pirates, aliens, science fiction, car racing, a computer game.
- Classic quest with notes. Players find a task, complete it and receive an answer where the next message is hidden. At the end of the game, each participant is left with a gift.
When preparing, start laying out the notes from the final point. This way you won’t get confused and will create a logical chain as intended.
- Photo quest. This option is suitable for playing in the country house or in the yard. Take photographs of familiar places in advance from unusual angles: the inside of a bench, a gazebo with a greatly enlarged angle. The blurrier the photo is, the more difficult it will be to guess what is shown in it. Each photo is a hint where the next message is hidden.
Present
A birthday present needs to be hidden so that your loved one does not find it ahead of time. Consider the places he very rarely looks at:
- oven;
- microwave;
- shelves in the closet;
- children's chest of drawers;
- toy box;
- washing machine;
- laundry basket;
- cabinet with cosmetics;
- shelf with dishes;
- kitchen compartment with cereals;
- storage place for household chemicals in the bathroom;
- boxes on the balcony;
- mezzanine.
If you want to make the quest even more exciting, prepare intermediate gifts. These can be pleasant and useful little things:
- t-shirt;
- chocolate;
- mobile phone holder;
- Case for tablet;
- car key fob;
- beer glass
Hide the gifts in the apartment along with the tasks, but do not forget that the quest must end with a surprise found. This can be not only a material thing, but also pleasant emotions. For example, at the end of the game, your loved one receives an invitation to a gala dinner in a restaurant, where friends are already waiting for him. Another option: after successfully completing all tasks, the birthday person receives a beautiful cake with candles. The gift does not have to be expensive, because the love and attention that you put into preparing for the holiday is much more important.
To pleasantly surprise your beloved husband, spend a little time and come up with an exciting quest. Rest assured, he will appreciate your efforts and will happily go in search of his gift.
Ready quest at home for your loved one
If you don’t have time for long thoughts and creating clues, perhaps one of our ready-made quests or scenarios will help you.
Some of them are available in electronic form - they can be downloaded and printed. And some are presented in ready-made sets. You can receive them by mail or order delivery by courier (depending on your place of residence).
With these kits, it’s very easy to organize a quest at home for your husband for his birthday or other holiday; 15 minutes is enough.
And further..
And if the process of preparing a home quest seems too complicated for you, you can always purchase a ready-made quest for children in a special section on our website. This will save you a lot of time and help you avoid organizational mistakes, because the scripts have already been tested in “combat” conditions, are beautifully designed and are very inexpensive. We regularly update the catalog of quests so that you can choose the appropriate option for your children by age and theme. Each quest already contains a set of tasks, instructions and recommendations for conducting it; you just need to print the quest on your home printer.
Quest for husband
10 small envelopes with tasks and given personally. Envelope No. 1 contains a note with approximately the following content: “Beloved! Congratulations on our 5th wedding anniversary! There are surprises prepared for you. To get them, complete several feats. Shall we play? I invite you to participate in a small quest game. By completing tasks, you will get closer to your goal step by step. Good luck! I'm waiting for you at the start (Hallway)"
Envelope No. 2 is already waiting in the hallway in a visible place with a note: “We need to conquer the Everest of our home! At the top there are further instructions." “Everest” is the highest place in the house; for example, we have a closet with clothes, but the husband must reach this idea himself.
Envelope No. 3, accordingly, lies on this Everest; it must be praised for the feat and the following riddle task: “He is beautiful and cold, with him you will not go hungry.” I think my husband will quickly guess that this is a refrigerator. There will be some kind of “snack” waiting for him, prepared in advance and Envelope No. 4.
Envelope No. 4 - a picture with a car. If he guesses that he needs to search his car, he will find the first mini-gift, for me these are special napkins for cleaning the car (3 gifts in total).
Nearby is Envelope No. 5: “You found the first gift! Congratulations! And now the important mission is to urgently rescue the next clue about the location of the second gift from the clutches of the dragon!” Here again you need to turn on your brain and guess that the dragon is our turtle. Under her shell there will be Envelope No. 6.
Envelope No. 6: “Hurray! The dragon has been defeated! The next task is to tell the princess about love (to me, naturally) to receive a second gift for this. You will always find a clue where the water splashes noisily.” I think it’s clear that this is a bathroom, where the present will be in the most visible place - a holder for a phone for the car, which I’ve been wanting for a long time.
Next to it is Envelope No. 7 and the task in it: make a word from letters (which I cut into this envelope in advance). The word is freezer.
Envelope No. 8 in the freezer with a riddle: “He can multiply 2 numbers faster than a man, a library could fit in it 100 times. Only there it is possible to open 100 windows in a minute. It’s not at all difficult to guess that the riddle is about...”
Near the computer Envelope No. 9: “The next clue is next to the photo of our wedding.” Here you will have to remember where this photo is located; you simply don’t notice some things in the house because it has become habitual.
Next to the photo is Envelope No. 10: “Congratulations! You completed all the tasks! You will find the main prize where the journey began.” Well, if from fatigue he doesn’t forget that it was a hallway, he will receive the main gift - I haven’t decided yet (a beautifully designed certificate with a sum of money for a suitcase with tools, which he has long dreamed of, or the same certificate for a watch). Envelopes are placed around the house on 2 floors. And of course, floors alternate with each new task)
Tasks
When preparing a quest for your loved one, use templates with tasks or come up with your own options. Consider your spouse's interests and hobbies to make the game even more fun.
We offer a quest plot with interesting tasks:
- On your birthday, you give an envelope with a note: “Darling, I want to congratulate you on your birthday and give you a gift. You are my hero, so you will have to perform feats to receive a surprise. So, let's start in the hallway."
- There is an envelope attached to the mirror in the hallway: “Conquer the Everest of our apartment, and at the top you will find another clue.” Hide the note on the top shelf in the closet, but the husband must figure out where to look.
- The next task is to guess the riddle: “It’s silvery and cold, you won’t go hungry with it.” The birthday boy will find the next envelope in the refrigerator.
- There on the shelf there will be a plate with a cake in which a folded sheet of paper with a picture of a car is hidden. The husband must guess that the next message is waiting in the car.
As an intermediate small gift, place a set of wet wipes for the car or a fragrance in the car.
- In the salon, the spouse will find an envelope containing a note: “Now you need to save the clue from the clutches of the dragon.” The fire-breathing monster turns out to be a turtle (if there is a dog, cat, parrots, or hamsters at home, come up with a suitable riddle and hide the envelope next to them).
- The card contains the following message: “To get another hint and a small gift for your exploits, you need to confess your love to the beautiful princess! Go, my prince, quickly to where the water often splashes.” The husband goes to the bath, and you are waiting there. After pleasant confessions, give him a small present and an envelope.
- And the last task: solve the puzzle and get the answer where the surprise is hidden.
An approximate scenario for conducting a quest game in an apartment for a husband (beloved man)
(let's say you decide to hide a gift in the microwave)
Morning. Your other half walks into the bathroom and sees a beautiful message pinned to the wall, wishing him a happy birthday.
Below it says:
PS Look into the washing machine!
At this moment, you join your loved one and watch the search for a surprise.
The husband finds a message in the washing machine:
“I prepared a gift for you, but I won’t give it to you. I suggest you take part in the quest game and find my surprise yourself!
If you can find the answer to all my riddles, then you will receive a gift, or rather, you will find it yourself!”
Riddle No. 1 is written right there:
He is beautiful and cold, You won’t go hungry with him! (Fridge)
Riddle No. 2
In the refrigerator there is a plate with a cake, to which is attached a sign “Eat me!”, and at the bottom of the plate, under the cake, there is an image of a flash drive.
Riddle No. 3
On the flash drive there is a pre-created text file called “Happy Birthday!”, and there is the following riddle clue:
With one hand he greets everyone, with the other hand he sees everyone off. She doesn’t offend anyone, but everyone just pushes her... (Door)
Riddle No. 4
Hidden on one of the doors is a small note rolled into a tube:
The house is made of tin, and the residents in it are leaders. (Mailbox)
Riddle No. 5
In the mailbox there is a “letter” - an envelope with a new riddle:
He is both at home and not at home, Between heaven and earth. Guess, my friend, What did the poem encrypt? (Balcony)
Riddle No. 6
On the balcony is the following note:
I have legs, but I don’t walk, I have a backrest, but I don’t lie, You sit down, and I stand. (Chair)
Riddle No. 7
There is a sticker with a riddle stuck under the seat of the chair:
Unfold the sheet quickly - You will see many lines there, In the lines there are messages from the whole world. What kind of sheet is this? (Newspaper)
Riddle No. 8
TV highlighted with a marker (circled with a pen) (or we highlight in different articles the letters from which we need to make this word).
Riddle No. 9
There is a sticker on the back of the TV with a riddle on it:
What this eye looks at will convey everything to the picture. (Camera)
This will be the last riddle. The birthday boy’s task is to guess what to do next. The fact is that he needs to look through the photographs and find among them an image of a microwave oven (you need to prepare in advance - take a close-up photograph of the oven). Your loved one will find your gift in it!
Quest for your husband's birthday - a cool scenario for congratulating your loved one right from the early morning!
For a woman, her husband is the most important person in life.
I really want to surround him with positivity, warmth, and care on his birthday. Choosing a gift is a difficult and responsible task. After all, attention and love cannot be bought in a store. But for a creative wife there is always the opportunity to surprise and pleasantly please her husband. Well, men love to be surprised. We’ll take advantage of this by offering our husband a series of simple and fun challenges for his birthday—a cool quest. The organization will not take much time, but it will force the married couple to shake themselves up, have fun and spend the beginning of the wedding in a special “operational” mode, different from the tired annual “relaxation”. Without a doubt, congratulations, in which the soul is invested, the desire to surprise and please, will not leave any man indifferent - who among them in childhood did not dream of treasures and treasures? After completing several consecutive quest tasks, the birthday boy himself will find the gift intended for him, that is, he will find the “treasure”. We offer a cool version of the quest that can be easily arranged in your own apartment.
Props
Props used for the quest:
- four balloons (rubber glove),
- colour pencils,
- scanned images of a piece of furniture,
- cut into pieces to make a puzzle,
- several elegant envelopes,
- scotch,
- scissors,
- colored pencils in a box of seven pieces in all colors of the rainbow with letters pre-glued on them,
- cellular telephone,
- flash card,
- computer,
- notes-instructions,
- gifts for the birthday boy and the main gift.
Attention : it is better to use a mobile phone for tips. This will eliminate the need for direct verbal contact, which will reduce the thrill of the game!
Quest scenario
Birthday. Morning. The birthday boy wakes up to the sound of an SMS: “A surprise awaits you in your mailbox.” The birthday boy hurries down to the mailbox, from which he takes out an elegant envelope with congratulations and an explanation of the further course of events.
The letter says: “My beloved birthday boy! I really want to sit down with you at the festive table and wish you everything! But when this happens depends only on you. After all, the gift prepared for you must be found by yourself. How? It's simple. Be attentive to the signs that will help you act in the right sequence. I think that you will successfully cope with everything yourself, but if you need my help, then for each hint you will have to wash the dishes instead of me. Of course, not on this glorious day of your birth: you will owe it in the future! Good luck to you. I'm rooting for you!"
The message is accompanied by mysterious rhymes:
“The golden ball is spinning and spinning, The golden ball is not empty at all. The ball has a hidden secret, In this secret you will find the answer.
PS Yes, greetings from Koshchei to you too!
Greetings from Koshchei are a decorative pin or needle stuck into the postcard, symbolizing the immortality of the fairy-tale character. I wonder what it's for?
1. While the puzzled husband is reading a mysterious message near the mailbox, the wife quickly hangs three pre-inflated balloons right outside the front door: red, yellow, blue. In yellow she puts the key to the next action. It is the yellow one, also known as gold, that needs to be pierced with the received needle, since it is in it that the note with the task is located. The song “Blue Ball” can confuse your husband and force him to choose a blue ball. Well, then you'll have to wash the dishes over time. But we believe that the birthday boy does not fall for minor provocations and takes out an instruction note from the punctured yellow balloon.
2. A note from a yellow balloon with the following content: “Here are mixed fragments of three phrases from three very popular songs of the Soviet period. Namely: “Smile, they still walk and run away in the world if they are in a quarrel.” This is taken from the lyrics of the following songs: “Five Minutes” (film “Carnival Night”), “Antique Clock” performed by A. Pugacheva and “Farewell to Love” (V. Kikabidze). The songs are dedicated to one important thing in the life of every person. Guess what this thing is? Find her. It is clear that the answer is “a clock,” and the quick-witted birthday boy moves towards a wall or floor clock or other outstanding clock located in the apartment. His goal is to receive instructions for his further actions. Attached to the back of the clock are 2-3 photos of the wife in front of the furniture, to which the next clue should be attached. This is where you need to pay special attention to the furniture.
3. The birthday boy, guided by the photo, must find this furniture in the house. A box of colored pencils is attached to this part of the furniture set. The box says: “Give yourself a rainbow”! The box contains seven pencils: purple, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange, red. A printed letter is attached to each with tape. The correspondence is as follows: purple – “B”, blue – “D”, blue – “I”, green – “B”, yellow – “A”, orange – “H”, red – “E”. Collecting a rainbow involves arranging the pencils exactly in the sequence of rainbow colors. Or draw with them in the required sequence, paying attention to how the corresponding letters form a word. Then the birthday boy will easily read the next instruction “IN THE SOFA” and rush to the sofa.
4. And between the cushions of the sofa, the first incentive prize awaits him - a box of chocolates. But at the bottom of the box there is another riddle. This is a puzzle. On a cardboard sheet of postcard size, write, beautifully decorated with colored felt-tip pens, a line from V. Vysotsky’s song: “Light the stove for me in white.” Write and cut into several parts so that the birthday person can deal with the puzzle. Let him collect it.
5. Without a doubt, having completed the puzzle, the birthday boy will guess to look either in the oven or in the microwave. And there the following instructions await him: “If it doesn’t burn in fire, then where to go?”
6. And our birthday boy goes straight to the bathroom, where a bottle of whiskey awaits him - another gift from his wife with an elegant sticker containing an acrostic:
Toropyshka was hungry and dropped the cold iron. He shined the lantern for a long time, Only one Needle was found!
If the wife relies on her husband’s natural ingenuity, then the first letters of the lines need not be highlighted. The absurdity of the verse should suggest that the idea of further search is hidden not in the meaning of the message, but in the form of construction or something else.
7. So, “SHOES”. The husband should inspect several pairs of his shoes. In one of the pairs he finds a recommendation: “Set a course for the North Pole”! The birthday boy goes to the refrigerator and opens the freezer. The chamber contains a frozen ball or rubber glove with a note and the following prize: a keychain. The balloon is defrosted by the birthday boy under hot water. You get a keychain and a note with the following content: “All secrets are hidden in the ground.” In the ground and at home, where is it?
8. Of course, in a flower pot! You'll have to dig around a little to bring to light another elegantly decorated square of cardboard with a mysterious inscription:
Four elements in the world Today you met only three of them. Find the fourth one too. And your heart will beat in your chest!
9. The birthday boy has to think: what are the main four elements in the world? The answer is obvious: Earth, Water, Air and Fire. Which of them has not the birthday boy encountered yet today? Of course, with the element of Air. And his path lies on the balcony: where else does His Majesty Air reign? On the balcony, a bright, beautiful envelope is attached to the clothesline. It contains a flash card with just one audio file.
10. Having inserted it into the computer and having enjoyed the wonderful old song “The highest dream is height”, the husband is unlikely to have any doubts that the treasured main gift is hidden in the highest place in the house - on the mezzanine or maybe even on the chandelier . It's up to the hostess to decide. To make the decisive final assault easier for your beloved husband, stick an airplane on this treasured place. Let there be a hint.
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