The special appeal of a treasure hunt

Whether reserved kids or little daredevils – a treasure hunt excites all personalities. In this cooperative game everyone can bring in their skills and become treasure hunters. The searching together for solutions to tasks, tinkering with tricky puzzles and finding the hiding places brings people together and creates lasting memories.

Ready, set, go — to the chest!

We at HABA know how scarce the time, the ideas and the creative reserves for birthday preparations in everyday life between work and family really are. That's why we at „Find the code“ have already (almost) prepared everything you need for an exciting treasure hunt at the birthday party: a attractive metal treasure chest for custom filling, including an exciting treasure map to puzzle over, puzzle cards in various difficulty levels and an adjustable combination lock for ever-new puzzle adventures for children aged 5 to 10. The puzzles work without text.

Find the Code – from idea to the magnificent treasure chest

In the beginning there was the search for ideas

Antje Gleichmann,Member of the Spiel und Buch editorial team at HABAand Kai Haferkamp, a successful author of children's games, made sure that from a few good ideas aconcrete, flexible game conceptcame about. Antje Gleichmann had the idea for „Find the Code“ while organizing a treasure hunt at a children's birthday party. She was inspired by the enduring hype around exit and escape games. Antje says: „Solving puzzles as a team to leave a locked room or to crack a code fascinates not only adults.“ Thus she developed with „Find the Code“ straight awaytwo original puzzle games for children: „Find the Code – Pirate Island“ and „Find the Code – Fantasy Land“ mainly differ in theme. Both allow parents,with minimal effortto start an exciting treasure hunt for children again and again.

Caution: contagious — game fever

Co-author Kai Haferkamp was also immediately enthusiastic about HABA's idea to develop atreasure hunt for children: „A real treasure chest and a combination lock already have an enormously strong appeal on their own. It was very important to me to build on that playfully as well and to create a dense, exciting treasure-hunter atmosphere that motivates. At the same time I wanted to give children a quick entry through playful and tactile elements familiar to them. We achieved that with the lovingly detailedpuzzle treasure mapachieved: It is the foundation for the puzzles and allows players to immerse themselves in the respective world. At the same time it serves as a game board for a playing piece, with which you canvisualize the progress of the treasure huntand better understand. In addition, there are the puzzle tasks that require no text and practically explain themselves through symbols.“

Maximum fun for minimal effort

With „Find the Code“ all children becomebrave and enthusiastic treasure hunters. Right from the start of the treasure hunt, adventure and action are in the air. The excitement and anticipation build continuously and the search for the treasure is as thrilling as it is entertaining. Co-author Kai Haferkamp feels the same: „Brooding together with Antje Gleichmann over the content-wise and visually perfect design of these puzzles and going on treasure hunts together while testing made working on this game something very special for me, and I believe the two products that resulted from this havebecome a genuine little game treasure!“