New Year's Eve is just around the corner and so is the perfect opportunity to try out some new games! With Actionbound, you can easily create exciting escape games and midnight rallies for your friends and family. Here are some tips to make your New Year's Eve party unforgettable:
Preparation is key
Before you start, think of a theme or storyline for your game. An escape game might revolve around solving a specific task, while a midnight rallye could include various tasks and stations leading up to the countdown at midnight. A well-thought-out story ensures fun, excitement, and even more anticipation for the new year!
New Year's Eve Escape Game
If you want to create your own escape game, here are some ideas to get you started:
1. Time travel adventure
Send your players on a journey through the past year, 2024, and create puzzles related to significant events of the year.
Example: Which musician held 10 concerts in Munich/Germany? Take a video of you trying to sing one of her most famous songs :)
2. Spy mission
Participants become secret agents on a crucial mission. Encoded messages, secret meeting points, and hidden gadgets add to the thrill!
Example: Design your Bound so that in the end, a message needs to be deciphered to prevent secret information from falling into the “wrong hands.”
3. Magical adventure
Players choose their favorite magician and solve a mystical puzzle. They need to mix potions, invent spells, and then guess who created which magic potion in the group.
Example: Send your players on a magical tour ending with a tasting of their self-created drinks!
Prefer a midnight rallye?
If you prefer something more active (maybe even outdoors), you can create your individual midnight rallye with the following elements:
Photo challenges: Challenge the group to take funny or themed photos.
Quiz questions: Ask questions about the past year or about your friendship and family.
Mini-games: Include small games like charades or lead-pouring to keep things interesting.
Code breakers: Hide clues and codes around your home or garden that players need to crack to advance.
Combination tasks: Have players combine various objects or solve tasks to find the next clue.
Conduct a test run
Perform a test run – this ensures all tasks are solvable, and the Bound works smoothly. Additionally, you can make final adjustments to optimize the gameplay experience.
The big countdown
Plan for your game to end just before midnight. The final task could be to start a countdown or find a hidden treasure – perhaps a bottle of champagne – to toast the new year.
We wish you lots of fun creating and a fantastic start to the new year! Happy New Year and enjoy Actionbound!
The summer holidays are already starting in some federal states and the weather is also slowly getting ready for summer. High time for your Bound in nature, right? In an increasingly digital world, it's not easy to find ways to utilise the benefits of technology without losing touch with nature. Actionbound can help you and show you how to create exciting experiences for adults and/or children.
The advantages of learning in nature
Learning in nature has many benefits: It promotes physical activity, increases well-being and strengthens understanding and appreciation of the environment. These benefits can be further enhanced by combining digital learning with nature experiences. Gamification increases the motivation to learn in nature. Can tree leaves be correctly categorised? What does a birch tree look like? Can you spot one and take a photo of it? Your players can collect points for correctly answering questions. At the end of the Bound, you can see who has collected the most points. Who ends up in 1st place?
Scientific experiments & creative tasks
Integrate simple scientific experiments into your Bounds that can be carried out on site. This makes learning hands-on and practical. Or encourage creativity through tasks that encourage participants to look at and interpret their surroundings in new ways. Have the participants take and analyse soil samples or carry out simple weather observations. With the "creative task" element, the things collected can be photographed and recorded for the future.
Learning stations in nature (GPS and code scanning)
You can organise exciting nature explorations with Actionbound. Children and adults can navigate through the forest, parks or nature reserves while solving tasks that develop their observation skills and knowledge of nature. One task could be to identify different tree species by their leaves or to find certain bird species and record their calls.
With the help of GPS coordinates, your players won't get lost either. It's best to create several sections where your players can check their location. Maybe you can also work together with the city or town nearby and hide permanently installed QR codes. You can also check the locations by scanning the QR codes. Here is a small example: In a botanical garden, stations could provide information about different plant families and their characteristics, with tasks to identify and describe the plants.
Curious now? Why not give it a try and create your next Bound in nature right now?
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