The Rebel Cashunter

Get your QR readers out Cashunters! This year hidden in our game books is a new bonus round called Point Sprint! Look for it! http://ow.ly/99mhJ

Every once in a while we try to think of something different and try to reinvent ourselves each year to bring something new to the public and to our players.  With that said last year we were doing the typical updating of our current games for the upcoming season, until suddenly we stumbled onto something... We noticed all this outdoor artwork commissioned by city of Boston that is  spread out all around the city.   We believe that all this artwork that has been around for years as well as the new pieces that have been popping around the city have gone unnoticed,  so I thought we can change that.      By installing the foundation of our game combined we these cool, classic, and contemporary pieces, we have created yet another fun Boston experience, which we are calling "The Art Dash"    This game will take players to all these cool locations as well as competing against other teams doing fun and competitive challenges along the ...

Hello Cashunters hope all is well with you!  So as many of you know that each year we try to recreate ourselves, to bring you the latest in the games we offer and this year will be no different.  This season we have created new booklets that will bring some mystery in the additional pages that  we have added in as well as the website that compliments them.  But what we are excited about most is that we will be replacing the digital cameras that are currently used in some of our games with the ipod touch.   This change will open  a bunch of new areas that the teams have not experienced before.  We can't explain what those new experiences are because we would be giving some of our secrets out.  What we can guarantee is that it will make the game even more interesting, fun and competitive than it has ever been.  Some of our games in our library will include this new technology by early 2012 and all of our games (except our field trip games) will...

This summer we will be bringing out of retirement one of the games that started the whole thing for Cashunt.  Starting in July we will be offering The DashRun.. The DashRun was the first game we ever offered when we were starting out 12 years ago.  The DashRun will start off from Salem, Ma and end off in Boston, and everything in between will be in play!   We dusted off the old blueprint of this multi-city competition and tweaked it  to fit more of a 2012 setting, where the challenges are new and fun.  The DashRun will be a 4 hour game that will only be conducted on Sundays from June all the way to September.  As always all media from the event will be free to our clients 24hrs after the event. For more information about the game feel free and call our office. (Monday Thru Friday 10am to 5pm) Bookings will start in May..

So as we approach our 12th season of Cashunt in a couple of weeks we always love to recreate ourselves this time of year just to make things always "fresher" for our upcoming players.  So what do we have in store this upcoming season will involve a few different aspects to the game in a tech level as well as a strategic level. How we are coming to approach this aspect of our games will be by us including 4 additional pages to our game books.  Now by what we have seen thus far it looks pretty cool and we also included these new aspects in "test games" this past summer to see if they indeed work and they did perfectly.  A couple of weeks ago we had a viral campaign called Operation: Lenguini that if read closely led the public to some cool promotional prizes as well as one individual scoring a pair of tickets to an upcoming bruins game in a week from now.  As always we encourage our readers to follow us on our facebook and twitter pages, at times we issue viral campai...

 If there was something I had been trying to avoid not getting our games into is using  “smart technology” in our games.   As of this past season we have had several individuals call us and ask us if we offer that type of game, which we didn't at the time.   After researching it a little bit and knowing that a few games companies within the country does use “smart technology” we went ahead and created a test game this past fall. The game worked out pretty smoothly and I was pretty happy with the results, but quite frankly just using smart phone technology I think  limits the game and quite frankly that's not what  our games are known for. So we tweaked it, and tweeted again and we have created a game for 2012 which will be tentatively called “The Smart Sprint” it will be the only game  we offer that will use smart phone technology. The game will also include additional challenges that are typical to a Cashunt competition, honestly we wouldn't have it a...

   From our last post we had indicated that we have now a department on our website that now offers “do-it-yourself” versions of some of our top games. The games  have had a great start  and the response has been great. We will also be introducing international versions of our games with the first one being "The London Dashunt". This game will be available most likely in the month of December and will be the first of four games that will be designed for an international market. The reason for this is because we have been seeing a big draw in international interest.    We will be announcing each new location the moment they are available to the public,    but as of right now we only see four for 2012. We will keep you posted on this blog and of course on our social media fan sites that being Facebook, LinkedIn, and twitter. That's it for now have a good week!

This is one area we have been playing around with for the past few years and I think we are ready to add museum games in our library.  There are versions out there that involve indoor scavenger hunts in museums and what we found them to be is a tad dull.  So we said to ourselves if we were to create a game in a museum what would we do in order to make it fun and entertaining and less feeling like a tour.  So we have created a couple of versions that in typical Cashunt form will include multiple challenges that will keep our players on their toes throughout the game.  Theses games will be in beta form from December 2011 thru February 2012..and after that trial time we will be offering it in a full time basis in the spring,  These games were supposed to be ready and active in 2010 but we really didn't like what we were about to release so we decided to rethink it and go back to the black board to give our players the ultimate museum scavenger hunt experience. ...

Old School vs New School has been a battle when it comes to technology especially in this day and time.  Now, I happen to be a huge fan of tech and have been for many many years.  But I have to admit, I am a bit old fashioned when it comes in and tries to take over old concepts.  I am not crazy about the idea of books now being  replaced by tablets and DVDs being replaced by streaming video, it has become the death of book, video and music stores/chains.  Now it has even entered the now "Scavenger Hunt Industry"...(never thought in a million years their would be such a thing by I was told recently that it does)  I assume it's a good thing ;)       There are companies that use hand held smartphone and have now created "scavenger hunt like" apps.  To those companies I think they are fantastic companies and I respect them to utmost..but the old fashioned interaction of a physical scavenger hunt can never reall...

The one thing I love to see is when certain businesses or individuals stand out from their pack, it's a very interesting thing to witness and study.  People have mentioned that in order to stand out and reach a successful level, you must not be boring.  Simply stated "people do not talk about "boring"  they talk about "interesting, controversial  funny, inspiring..but never ever do they talk about.. boring.  One thing I have always said is that if I was in a room that contained several people of various respectful occupations (salesperson, attorney, carpenter, dentist, and a clown from Ringling Brothers Circus) I would have no problem  starting a conversation with the clown in the room...why?....he's interesting.  Now am I saying for you to join the circus or the other occupations mentioned are not good ones? Of course not.   What I am pointing out is that interesting individuals  occupations, or businesses creat...

So as we wait on the eve of Hurricane Irene, I figured I would keep you up to speed as to what is going on at this moment in our little universe that we call CASHUNT!  As you might remember that in our last blog that we had been approached by several suiters for us to design and coordinate their marriage proposals using our game..   I'll be the first to say I was totally skeptical when it came to this uncharted ground, but after coordinating a couple of proposals all I can say after both girls screamed "YES!!!"  it was a  Piece-Of-Cake :)  This for some reason landed on or lap without even thinking about designing this sort of thing, now that we got the hang of it and we are being challenged with each "proposal call" we get..  I think we may just have stumbled onto a new venture..stay tuned:)       The next thing that I wanted to mention are two big changes that will be taking place asap.  First will be our annual championship.  Th...

I know it has been a long time since I last posted but as always this time of year it get's really crazy..so I guess that's a good thing!  A lot has transpired since we last posted we won a Certificate of Excellence Award from Tripadvisor which is pretty cool :) Also we are about to launch our home game version of Cashunt into the market which we have been working on for sometime (packaging etc).  Now for the strangest part of what has entered our universe..."marriage proposals"?!?!  Yes, and we are pretty shocked about the turn out.  The funny thing we never offered this service..but a couple of people called and asked us if we can help them propose..and then all of the sudden the phones started ringing with the same request.   Sometimes I feel as if I was Will Smith in the movie Hitch..LOL! So I guess it's a good thing and something new to add in our arsenal ...I just hope no one says NO on the proposal..that would suck.  One thing in business I have alwa...

We figured we would add two new seasonal games to our library this year and those games are geared specifically for Mother's and Father's Day.  We would see in the past years how families wanted to get together on those holidays to play the Boston Mad Dash.  So we figured why not create two games for families for those two specific days.  So we went and created "The MomdasH" and "The DadasH", these two games are completely designed towards the guest of honor.  With these games clients can submit certain information about either their mom or dad and we create a game around them.  The games were announced last week and already our MomdasH for mother's day on May 7th is Sold Out! For more information on these two games and availability give us a call!