Delight your audience with a festive and interactive Halloween Scavenger Hunt.
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Halloween Scavenger Hunt Template
Delight your audience with a festive and interactive Halloween Scavenger Hunt.
This template lets you hide clues and secret codes across your website, social media or marketing materials, and reward the people who find them with entries into your contest.
A Halloween scavenger hunt gives your audience a reason to spend more time with your brand in the run-up to October 31. Each code sends them to a page, post or product you want them to see.
Hide several Secret Code Actions across your site and posts. Each code is worth its own entries, so the most dedicated hunters get the best chance to win.
What This Template Does
- Awards entries with Secret Code Actions when people find and enter a hidden code
- Keeps people hunting with several codes to find
- Sends players to your website, social media and product pages
- Ties your Halloween promotions to a game people want to finish
Benefits of This Template
- Puts your Halloween offers in front of people while they hunt for codes
- Sends traffic to the landing pages, products or promotions where you hide each code
- Brings people back to your site and channels for every new clue
- Works for online hunts and for codes printed on in-store or event materials
Who Should Use It
- E-commerce brands running Halloween promotions
- Businesses that want to turn seasonal marketing into a game
- Marketers who want people spending longer on their website or social channels
- Any brand that wants to pair a holiday contest with list growth
Integration Support
- Secret Code Actions to check each code and award entries
- Subscribe Actions to capture entrant emails
- Viral Share Actions to reach more people through referrals
Official Gleam Resources
- Generate Leads Blog Post: Turn your giveaway entrants into leads you can follow up with
- Giveaway Ideas Blog Post: Find more seasonal campaign ideas to run after Halloween
- Competition Installation Guide: Install or embed your scavenger hunt on your own page
Frequently Asked Questions
Start from the Halloween Costume Contest template, collect photos with the Upload Action and show them in a Gallery with voting turned on.
Prizes like candy bundles, costumes, spooky decor, or event tickets make Halloween giveaways exciting. Click for more ideas.
Promote your Halloween giveaway with festive visuals, influencer partnerships, and social media campaigns. Click for a step-by-step guide.
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How to Set Up Your Halloween Scavenger Hunt
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Define Your Prize and Rules
Pick a Halloween prize, such as a gift card, a themed bundle or an exclusive discount, and set your contest rules
➡ See our prize ideas for inspiration -
Set Up a Secret Code for Each Clue
Open How to Enter, add a Secret Code action for every clue, and use the Instructions to tell people where to look
➡ Configure Secret Code Actions -
Choose Single or Multiple Codes
Use one Single Code per clue, or upload Multiple Codes that each work once -
Set Messages and Test Every Code
Write a spooky message for an incorrect code, then type each code into the widget preview to check it is accepted before you publish -
Hide Your Codes
Place codes across your website, blog posts, product listings or social media, and always link back to your hunt -
Grow Your List and Reach
Add Subscribe Actions to grow your mailing list, and Viral Share Actions so entrants can invite friends for extra entries -
Announce Your Hunt and Remind People
Launch 10 to 14 days before October 31, tell people there is a code to find, and post a reminder before the hunt ends
Delight your audience with a festive and interactive Halloween Scavenger Hunt.