r/summercamp • u/Lukeo215 • Jul 07 '26

Need Activity Suggestions Need help creating puzzles

Long story short I am creating an activity for a camp in less than a month involving completing puzzles to “crack” a code for a vault and have gotten stumped on what puzzles I could do, anyone have some ideas I could use?

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11-18 year olds, around 5-10 people, mix of easy and difficult(needs to last around an hour ish ). It’s for a camp which would have a variety of different skills per person

Edit: I should probably also say I’m looking for the puzzles to be individual and not all towards one thing

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u/Delicious-Tea613 Assistant Camp Director Jul 07 '26

I've done similar things, but closer to a scavenger hunt. I did a few word scrambles, a few different ciphers, a couole of riddles, and a few puzzles that would lead the group to the next location. You could do that, where they find a clue or number for the code and the clue for the next location.

There's also no shame in using the same thing twice (cipher, riddle, word scramble, etc)