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Treasure Hunt

A GAME

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Treasure hunt

Aim
This board game will add colour and interest to any revision, test or quiz-like activity. It is flexible
so you can use it more than once with the same class. It follows the usual board game pattern:
children start on square 1 and move forward in a race to reach the treasure.

Preparation
 Make one copy of the treasure hunt board for every two children. Prepare a list of 20-30
questions (see examples below).
 Each child needs a button, a coin or a coloured piece of paper to move as a counter. Two
children play on one page.

Steps
1. Explain the game to the children. Check that they understand what they must do if they land
on the special squares – 5, 9, 14, 17, 20, 26 and 30.

2. Tell them you are going to throw a die. Whichever number comes up will be the number they
can move forward if they get your question right. So if you throw a 3, all the children who get
the answer right will move three squares.

3. Ask a question and tell the children to write down the answer. See the examples below. Elicit
the correct answer and write it on the board. All the children with the right answer move
their counters forward. Those who are wrong stay where they are.

4. Ask more questions until the game ends. This is when:


a) one or more children reach the treasure, or
b) you have finished asking a certain number of questions, so the child or children nearest the
treasure are the winners.

Note: An alternative to throwing a die is for you to call out a number according to the level of
difficulty.

Example questions (but you can use almost any questions, adapted to your class):
Spelling: How do you spell cat?
Odd Word Out: Which is the odd word out: apple, pear, lemonade, banana?
Opposites: What is the opposite of day?
Sentence completion: A baby cat is called a ________.
Grammar: What is the past of do?
General: Which day of the week comes after Wednesday?

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This resource has been adapted from Jamboree (Nelson, 1990) by kind permission of the authors, John Palim and Paul
Power.
Treasure hunt

© 2009 www.teachitworld.com 12186 Page 2 of 2


This resource has been adapted from Jamboree (Nelson, 1990) by kind permission of the authors, John Palim and Paul
Power.

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