thiswayandthatway wrote: "My son happened to find a series of strange and related clues that eventually led to the digging up of buried treasure. The first thing he found was a piece to a map along with a few other strange items..."

"The scrap of paper had some weird stuff on it, but wasn't folded in any way. If I remember right we had to align it with something to figure out where to fold it. Below is what we saw when it was folded correctly."

"So under the steps he went... Under the steps was a box. Inside the box we found another part of the treasure map and some more clues."

"The sheet of paper below just had the letters without all circles in pencil..."

"To figure out which letters to use we had to use one of the clues we found before,"

"there were more clues in the bush in our front yard..."

"...One of them was this picture with holes in it."

"On the back was this weird mark. That's when it dawned on us..."

"...We needed to use two of the other clues we got to find the message."

"Once we put the paper with letters on the back of the boat picture with holes... the swirly key told us what the correct alignment should look like."

"When we aligned the letters with the picture with the holes cut out using the key... we found the location of the next set of clues."

"Eventually we found the full map."

"Still more clues... My son was thrilled during the entire process."

"The scrap of paper said "The treasure is shining through the two swords"... which meant placing the swords over the sun. Once we over-laid the key on top of the map... We found the location of the treasure!!!"

"Is was on the west side of the house!"

"Here is my son digging up the treasure."

"Eventually I took over while he watched. This is how you react to treasure buried next to your house."

"SUCCESS!!! Okay so one of my hobbies is planning treasure hunts. As a User Experience Designer, planning out wonderful experiences is what I get into most. I planned this one for my children and it was a huge success. I did one before this one, which was a TON more challenging and hard to put together, mostly because I was doing it for the first time."

This is thiswayandthatway with his kids. Will you borrow the idea and make your own treasure hunt? Good luck and best wishes.