Scavenger Hunt Showdown

Your date

Your town is the game board

Take a playful challenge list into any easy-to-reach area and race to find, photograph, notice, or creatively complete the prompts together.

Choose one safe, easy-to-explore area: your neighborhood, downtown, a park, mall, shopping center, flea market, or another public place where you can wander for about an hour.

Start with eight to twelve challenges. Examples:

• Find something older than both of you.
• Photograph something your partner would love.
• Find something in your favorite color.
• Find the weirdest item under $5 without having to buy it.
• Find something that reminds you of your first date.
• Recreate a ridiculous photo together.
• Find the strangest sign.
• Spot something neither of you has noticed before.
• Find an object that perfectly describes your partner.
• Take the most dramatic photo possible in a completely ordinary place.

Give each completed challenge one point and make harder or funnier bonus challenges worth two.

Stay together rather than splitting up. Take turns deciding where to explore and how creatively a prompt can be interpreted. Halfway through, each person invents one surprise bonus challenge for the other.

When time is up, sit somewhere nearby and review the photos and answers. Award points, argue harmlessly about questionable interpretations, and choose the best find, funniest photo, and most creative solution.

No purchases are required.