HELP

Short answers for playing and hosting GoHunt games. Still stuck? Email support@gohunt.co.in.

For players

Joining a game

1. Open GoHunt and sign in.
2. On the home screen, type the game code your host gave you and tap Enter Hunt.
3. Treasure and scavenger hunts: type your team code and tap Join Hunt. Your teammates use the same team code.
4. Hide & Seek: pick your side in the lobby (or random, if the host lets you). The first time, tick I'm 18 or older: Hide & Seek is for adults only.

If you close the app or reload, GoHunt takes you back into the game you were playing.

Treasure hunt

• Your card shows the clue for your next stop. Work out where it is and go there.
• When you arrive, tap I'm Here. If you're close enough, take a team photo at the spot, holding up as many fingers as the stop number on your screen.
• Some stops show a short fact to read before the next clue opens. Finding a stop can also unlock new tasks.
• Tasks are photos, videos or things to bring to the finish. Do them in any order; tasks tied to a stop appear once you find it.
• The 📍 Clue button reopens your current clue at any time.
• Stuck? The 🛟 Lifeline button can ask the organiser for help, or reveal your next stop for a points cost.
• After the last stop, head to the finish line. Results come out once the organiser has checked every team.

Scavenger hunt

• You get a list of challenges. Take photos, and for each photo pick which challenges it shows.
• Your team can add, swap or remove photos until you tap Final Submit. After that your photos are locked.
• Watch the timer at the bottom of the screen: arriving late can cost points.

Hide & Seek

• Players are either hunters or runners. Runners hide; hunters chase.
• The game is played inside a zone on the map that shrinks during the round. Stay inside it: if a runner stays outside too long, the hunters see where they are, and then the runner is out.
• Every few minutes a ping shows the hunters where the runners are. Then they're hidden again, so keep moving.
• To tag a runner, a hunter gets close and taps Tag. The runner confirms or says it didn't happen, and the host decides any disagreement.
• Your host may switch on power-ups and supply drops. Each one explains itself when you get it.
• Keep the app open, or your phone locked with GoHunt running: the game needs your location the whole round.

Team radio

• Hold the talk button and speak; let go to send. Only your own side and the host hear you.
• A runner who is outside the zone loses the radio until they're back inside. Caught runners lose their side's radio.
• GoHunt asks for the microphone the first time you talk.

Notifications

• Tap 🔔 Notifications in the game to get notices like "your clue is ready" or messages from your host. GoHunt sends a test notice to show it works.
• iPhone, on the website: notifications only work after you add GoHunt to your Home Screen (Share → Add to Home Screen) and open it from there.
• Every notice is also in the game's 📬 Inbox, so you don't miss anything without them.

Location permission

Treasure hunts need your location when you tap I'm Here; Hide & Seek needs it for the whole round. GoHunt never uses it outside a game.

• Android: Settings → Apps → GoHunt (or your browser) → Permissions → Location → Allow, and turn on Use precise location.
• iPhone, the app: Settings → GoHunt → Location → Always (so Hide & Seek keeps working with your phone locked), with Precise Location on.
• iPhone, the website: Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Safari Websites → While Using the App.
• If "I'm Here" says you're not close enough, step outside or away from tall buildings and try again: GPS is much better in the open.

Permissions

The first time you open the app (or, on the website, before your first Hide & Seek game) GoHunt shows one short screen each for location, notifications and the microphone, says why, and asks only if you tap Allow. Not now is fine: GoHunt won't ask again by itself, only when a game needs it (for example the first time you hold the talk button). Change any of them later in Profile → Permissions; in the app, a blocked one has an Open Settings button.

Battery tips

• Charge fully before the game, and bring a power bank for Hide & Seek.
• Turn the screen brightness down and close apps you don't need.
• Don't turn on battery saver during Hide & Seek: it can stop your location from being sent.
• The host can see your battery level and will know if your phone is running low.

Playing safely

• Watch where you're going, obey traffic rules, and never play while driving or riding.
• Stay out of private property, railway lines, highways, water and anywhere unsafe.
• In an emergency, stop playing and call 112.
• The full rules are in our terms.

Your account

• Tap the round profile button on the home screen to see your account, sign out, or read the privacy policy.
• Deleting your account: profile button → Delete account at the bottom → type DELETE → Delete forever. What is deleted and what a hunt keeps: delete your account.

For hosts (Hide & Seek)

Getting a game code

• GoHunt gives out host codes that look like GH-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. On the home screen, under Host a Hide & Seek game, paste the code, give your game a name, and confirm.
• The code then belongs to your account and creates your game. Share the game code it shows you with your players.
• Use your host code within 45 days of getting it. Your game stays yours to run for 30 days.

Setting up

• The first time you open the host screen, a short walkthrough shows you each part. 🧭 Walkthrough reopens it.
• Simple shows a ready-made setup and the zone; Advanced opens every setting. Each setting has a one-line explanation under it.
• Set the zone by tapping the map. Pick a public place. GoHunt refuses zones over railways, highways, airports, military land or large water, and tells you how small the zone needs to be to fit.
• Later rounds can move the zone, but no more than 2 km from the first round's.

Running rounds

• Wait until everyone is in the lobby, then start the round. Your map shows every player.
• You can message all players or one side, talk on either side's radio, and decide tags a runner disputes.
• After a round, start the next one with random sides, the same sides, or let everyone pick again.
• A game has up to 5 rounds and 20 players, unless your code came with other limits: your host panel shows your game's.

Ending a game

• When you're done, End game: everyone sees the summaries. After the last round the game ends by itself the same way.
• A game ends by itself 4 hours after the first round starts, or after 30 minutes with nothing happening. You get a warning first, and Keep the game open gives you more time.

Your safety rules as host

• Everyone in your game must be 18 or older.
• Choose safe, public places, at times when it's safe to be there.
• Remind players about traffic and private property before you start, and stop the round if anything looks unsafe.

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