• Use a specific road sign as a scavenger hunt clue.Verkehrsschilder image by Richard Schramm from Fotolia.com
  
  A scavenger hunt allows a group to interact with each other and explore their location while looking for clues or collecting specific items on a list. When building a scavenger hunt, keep in mind the ability of your guests. If they do not like to walk too far, select destinations closer together or involve transportation, like taxi rides. For a younger group, consider their ability to work well together.
  
  

Mall

• Make exploring the mall an exciting scavenger hunt for kids. Ideally for children ages nine or 10, design a scavenger hunt that partners with mall vendors and kiosks. Parents or guardians choose a selection of stores and shops in the mall--a surf shop, ice cream store, jewelry kiosk--and ask the vendors to participate. Drop them a tip and ask them to hold on to a clue and a few goodies--either treats or nick-knacks. Let the final clue take the participants to a event-based destination, like the mall movie theater.
  
  

Museum

• Design a list of clues including famous works of art at a local museum. Write a list of 10 to 15 clues either listing names of artists or their paintings, or a details found in paintings. For instance, one clue could be to find a woman floating in a wooded stream (Ophelia, by British painter Sir John Everett Millais, 1852). WatsonAdventures.com, a scavenger hunt company, hosts hunts in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. In one hunt, participants scour the walls for particular naked bodies. However you design your museum scavenger hunt, keep people moving in and out of rooms throughout the museum--the greater the range of art and details the better.
  
  

City

• A city is an ideal location for an adult scavenger hunt. Select a list of areas in the city you would like the participants to experience. Instead of focusing on tourist sites, choose lesser-known locales and areas full of personality. For instance, in New York City, don't pick the Chrysler Building lobby as a destination, choose the coffee shop on 27th and 6th with the pink and green neon sign. Keep destinations mostly within walking distance--if your crowd is not overly energetic--but add at least one uncommon form of transportation, like a ferry to Roosevelt Island for the final clue.