All ages · Get moving
Treasure Swap
Everyone secretly gets a different thing to find. Sixty seconds to fetch it, then the room guesses each person's clue from what they brought back.
- ~15 min
- 3–10 people
- One device, or phones
- Free
- All ages
What it feels like
Everyone gets a secret. A different thing to go and find. You'll have sixty seconds... walk, don't run. Then bring your treasure back and show it off, and see if this room can work out the clue you were hiding.
How to play
- Pass the device round: each of you secretly reads a different thing to find, like “something that makes you happy”.
- Then everyone has sixty seconds to go and find theirs. Walk, don't run.
- Back in the room, show your find one at a time. Everyone guesses what your secret clue was.
Scoring: 2 points for each clue you guess. The finder scores 1 for everyone who gets theirs — so find something that fits.
You'll get prompts like
- “something that makes you happy”
- “something older than you”
Playing safely
Walk, don't run, and walk on stairs. Nothing sharp, hot, heavy, breakable or alive — and nothing that isn't yours to borrow.
What you need
3 to 10 people and one phone, tablet or laptop to pass around — or everyone on their own phone in a room. Nothing to download, no accounts. The best lines can be sealed into your group's Almanac and come back in later games.
