1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. A woman is sitting in her hotel room when there is a knock at the door. She opened the door to see a man whom she had never seen before. He said "oh I'm sorry, I have made a mistake, I thought this was my room." He then went down the corridor and in the elevator. The woman went back into her room and phoned security. What made the woman so suspicious of the man? | You don't knock on your own hotel door and the man did. | 2. You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I? | A reflection | 3. Rearrange the letters: NOR DO WE to make one word. | ONE WORD | 4. It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it? | A beetle | 5. What goes through a door but never goes in and never comes out? | A keyhole | 6. What gets whiter the dirtier it gets? | A chalkboard | 7. I start with the letter e, I end with the letter e. I contain only one letter, Yet I am not the letter e! What am I? | An envelope | 8. What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of? | Trouble | 9. What jumps higher than a building? | All animals can jump higher than a building. Buildings do not jump | 10. If a green man lives in a green house, a purple man lives in a purple house, a blue man lives in a blue house, a yellow man lives in a yellow house, a black man lives in a black house. Who lives in a White house? | The President | 11. Which ring is square? | A boxing ring | 12. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I? | A secret | 13. What time of day, when written in a capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down? | Noon | 14. I am a word of 5 letters and people eat me. If you remove the first letter I become a form of energy. Remove the first two and I’m needed to live. Scramble the last 3 and you can drink me. What am I? | Wheat, heat, eat, tea | 15. A man is trapped in a room. The room has only two possible exits: two doors. Through the first door there is a room constructed from magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters. Through the second door there is a fire-breathing dragon. How does the man escape? | He waits until night time and then goes through the first door. | 16. What is unusual about the sentence below? A big cowboy, dancing elegantly for grand hotels in Jersey, knitting lovely mittens nicely on pretty quilted rubber shoes, thought untrained vets would X-ray yellow zebras | Each letter corresponds with the alphabet a b c d |
A woman is sitting in her hotel room when there is a knock at the door. She opened the door to see a man whom she had never seen before. He said "oh I'm sorry, I have made a mistake, I thought this was my room." He then went down the corridor and in the elevator. The woman went back into her room and phoned security. What made the woman so suspicious of the man? &choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 16)
You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I? &choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 16)
Rearrange the letters: NOR DO WE to make one word. &choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 16)
It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it? &choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 16)
What goes through a door but never goes in and never comes out? &choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 16)
What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 16)
I start with the letter e, I end with the letter e. I contain only one letter, Yet I am not the letter e! What am I? &choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 16)
What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of? &choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 16)
What jumps higher than a building? &choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 16)
If a green man lives in a green house, a purple man lives in a purple house, a blue man lives in a blue house, a yellow man lives in a yellow house, a black man lives in a black house. Who lives in a White house? &choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 16)
Which ring is square? &choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 16)
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I? &choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 16)
What time of day, when written in a capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down? &choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 16)
I am a word of 5 letters and people eat me. If you remove the first letter I become a form of energy. Remove the first two and I’m needed to live. Scramble the last 3 and you can drink me. What am I? &choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 16)
A man is trapped in a room. The room has only two possible exits: two doors. Through the first door there is a room constructed from magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters. Through the second door there is a fire-breathing dragon. How does the man escape? &choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 16)
What is unusual about the sentence below? A big cowboy, dancing elegantly for grand hotels in Jersey, knitting lovely mittens nicely on pretty quilted rubber shoes, thought untrained vets would X-ray yellow zebras &choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 16)
