What Is the Best Way to Run a Scavenger Hunt Competition?
Hide a code in each clue and add a Secret Code action for each one (Hobby Plan and above). Entrants find a code, type it into your widget and earn entries for it.
- Plan the trail. Put clues on your website, in emails or across your social posts, like an Instagram caption, a pinned X post, a YouTube description or a TikTok comment, and make each one point to the next.
- Add one Secret Code action per clue. Codes can be up to 20 letters and numbers, and we convert them to uppercase.
- Decide what finishing means. Switch on Mandatory for every code if entrants must find them all. With several Mandatory actions, entrants complete every one before anything else unlocks. Or use Actions Required to keep later clues locked until earlier codes are in.
- Write the rules down in your description and Terms & Conditions.
Gleam checks that each code is right. It can't tell whether someone found the clue or got the code from a friend, and codes do get shared. That's fine for reach, just don't treat a code as proof someone saw the clue.
Your plan caps the codes one Competition can hold: 10 on Hobby, 100 on Pro (200 yearly) and 10,000 on Business (20,000 yearly). Every limit is on our pricing page.
Here's a themed version, our Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt:
There's a YouTube version too, our YouTube Scavenger Hunt template.