A self-guided walking tour your visitors play as a game
Most people on a self-guided walking tour read the first plaque, skim the second, and are checking the time by the third. A Let's Tingo board gives them something to look for between the stops. We build it with you, a bingo board of the details your guides would point out, and your visitors play it as they walk.
Each visitor gets their own board from the same list of finds, and the first to fill five in a row calls a Tingo. The ones who'd usually trail at the back end up out in front, looking for the next find.
How it works for your visitors
A QR code on a sign at the visitor center, on the tour map or in the brochure is all it takes. Visitors scan it, join in a tap, and get their board. Joining is free for them, in the app or in a browser, so if you've been considering a walking tour app, this is one your visitors don't have to download first.
Families work their way down the street together, calling out the date over a doorway and the old hitching post, looking up at the buildings instead of down at a map.
A history scavenger hunt that slows people down
You know the details most people walk straight past: the mason's mark, the window that was bricked up, the boot scraper by the front step. Those are the ones to put on the board. A history scavenger hunt makes visitors stop and look closely, and once they've found the bricked-up window, they want to read why it's there.
We write the board with you, from your knowledge of the site and its stories and ours of what makes a good find. The board carries your name, your colors and your logo.
A historical scavenger hunt along the whole route
For a tour that covers a neighborhood or an old downtown, the board can run the length of the route, so the last stop gets as many visitors as the first. Make your historical scavenger hunt a camera game and every find needs a photo, so visitors leave with a picture of each detail they found.
A prize for finishing the tour
Turn it into a sponsored game and the board ends in a prize drawing. Visitors who hit the Tingo target before the game ends are entered, they can see how many people are playing and how many have qualified, and one winner is drawn when time runs out. A free guided tour or a gift shop voucher gives people a reason to walk the whole thing.
Historical scavenger hunt ideas for your board
These are the kind of finds that make a good history scavenger hunt. Your board would be built around your own buildings, streets and rooms.
On the buildings
- Date over a door
- Mason's mark
- Bricked-up window
- Iron balcony
- Cornerstone
- Ghost sign
- Stained glass transom
- Gargoyle
- Widow's walk
- Shutter dogs
- Fanlight
- Copper roof
Along the street
- Hitching post
- Boot scraper
- Iron lamppost
- Historical marker
- Cobblestones
- Horse trough
- Old fire hydrant
- Carriage step
- Coal chute cover
- Bell tower
- Town square statue
- Brick sidewalk
Inside the house
- Butter churn
- Spinning wheel
- Pump organ
- Four-poster bed
- Wood stove
- Quilt
- Grandfather clock
- Oil portrait
- Servants' bell
- Washboard
- Old map
- Fireplace bellows
Let's build a board for your tour
Tell us about your site or your tour: the stories behind it, who comes to see it, and what you most want them to notice. We'll come back with ideas for what a Tingo board could look like along your route. Let's Tingo works the same way for museum scavenger hunts, Main Street events and park scavenger hunts, and you'll find everything else we build on our partners page.