Courage academy

"Academy of Courage" quest description

This is an exciting adventure game for children and adults: a ready-to-print set of cards with "masculine" tasks, games and puzzles. You can organize this quest for a boy's birthday, or have fun just like that.

Plot and preparation

This is a fun home quest with a dozen different tasks and gifts in the end. To show off their real masculine qualities, participants need to find and solve 10 tasks with hints. For each completed task, they will receive a star token, which has to be glued to a special "Academy of Courage credit sheet".

Preparing the quest is very simple – you need to read the instructions, print out the cards with tasks. You’ll need to cut some cards or write the hiding place word by letters. Then you’ll have to hide these hints according to the instructions, and prepare gifts at the end. They do not have to be big, sweets or a pleasant surprise will also work.

Hiding places

This is a home quest, but if you wish, you can organize it in another place, because it uses simple and accessible stashes:

• shoes
• screen (TV, computer, laptop, tablet, etc.)
• glass (window, vase, aquarium, locker door, etc.)
• clock / watch
• wheel (a box with toy cars, a bicycle, a scooter, rollerblades, a stroller, a table/chair on wheels)
• table
• you will have to choose some places and write their names on the cards
• you can hide the presents in any convenient place.

Who can participate

One or more children can play this quest – we recommend no more than 8 people, and it will also be interesting for dads/ grandpas to participate. Girls can also play, but they shouldn’t fill in the credit sheets and collect star tokens.

Tasks of varying complexity will be interesting for children over 6 years old (who can read), teenagers, and adults.

Participants will not only solve puzzles, but also perform various active and creative tasks: squat, sing a song, design a special uniform, solve a puzzle, take a photo, and of course, look for clues around the house.

Look at the colorful task cards we have come up with and drawn for you: they look great in color and black-and-white printing – the whole quest takes only 9 A4 pages.

Playtime

The playtime depends on the age and number of players: on average, completing the quest takes from 1 to 1.5 hours. The playtime can be adjusted by hiding cards with tasks more simply or intricately, giving participants hints if they need them.

What you will need for the quest

To prepare it, you need a color or black-and-white printer, paper, scissors, gifts or sweets. Also a bag / basket with any clothes and accessories (for a task with designing a special uniform).

Children will need a pen or a felt-tip pen to solve tasks, glue to stick tokens with stars on the credit sheet, and in one task you’ll need the phone – to scan the QR code.

You will need to print out all the tasks in one copy and the "credit sheets" according to the number of participants.

What you get when you buy the quest script

3 electronic files in PDF format:

1. Detailed instructions for the quest – we carefully describe what to do with each card and where to hide it. At the end of the manual, you will find 5 additional games for children to make the event even more fun – you can play them after the quest.
2. Quest cards with 10 tasks on 9 pages.
3. The envelope template, in which you can hide each hint (it’s not necessary).

How to buy the quest

To purchase the quest, make an order by clicking on the big orange button on this page and fill in the fields. Then you can choose a convenient payment method. After that, the link for downloading the quest script will be automatically sent to the email address you gave – you need to click on it to download the materials.

If you don't find the script in the Inbox, be sure to check the Spam, Mailing Lists or Notifications folder.