A zoo scavenger hunt built for your zoo or aquarium

Most visitors walk the main loop, see the animals on the map's front cover, and head for the exit. A Let's Tingo board gives them a reason to go further. We build a zoo scavenger hunt for your park, a bingo board of animals, exhibits and moments worth looking for, 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. Families race each other down the paths, and the exhibit at the far end of the park finally gets its crowd.

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Families crowd a polar bear habitat rail, a boy and a young girl at the front and a visitor behind holding a phone up to photograph the bear.
A Let's Tingo board on a phone with zoo finds marked, one row highlighted as a completed Tingo.
An empty zoo entrance path winds under an arch of fallen logs.
A Let's Tingo prize drawing sheet for a zoo game, with a QR code to invite players.

How it works for your visitors

A QR code on a sign at the entrance, on the park map or on the back of a ticket 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.

Families work their way through the park together, calling out the sleeping lion and the otter with a toy, looking up at the habitats instead of down at a map.

A father and daughter seen from behind lean on a wooden rail, watching an elephant across the habitat.
A Let's Tingo zoo board branded with a zoo's name and colors.

Zoo bingo that walks people past what they'd miss

You know which exhibits get passed by, and those are the ones to put on the board. A find like "Third toucan" or "Otter with a toy" sends people looking closer at the habitats they'd usually walk straight past, and a find like "Keeper talk" brings them to the scheduled moments you want full.

We write the board with you, from your knowledge of the park and ours of what makes a good find. The board carries your name, your colors and your logo.

A sponsored Let's Tingo game showing how many visitors are playing and how many have qualified for the prize drawing.
Let's Tingo's results screen announcing the winner of a zoo game and their prize.

Zoo activities with a prize at the end

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. It's a simple way to give a membership, a behind-the-scenes tour or a gift shop voucher a crowd of people working toward it.

A woman in an aquarium tunnel reaches up toward a shark passing overhead.

An aquarium scavenger hunt works the same way

Aquariums have the same problem: in the dim light, people follow the crowd past the big tank and miss the small ones. A board with the moray eel, the seahorse and the diver at feeding time on it gets them looking into every tank on the way through.

Zoo scavenger hunt ideas for your board

These are the kind of finds that make a good zoo or aquarium scavenger hunt. Your board would be built around your own animals and exhibits.

A flamingo standing on one leg.

Around the zoo

  • Sleeping lion
  • Giraffe eating
  • Flamingo on one leg
  • Elephant bath
  • Penguin dive
  • Keeper talk
  • Baby animal
  • Snake on a branch
  • Roaming peacock
  • Otter with a toy
  • Third toucan
  • Feeding time

At the aquarium

  • Shark overhead
  • Sea turtle
  • Glowing jellyfish
  • Hiding octopus
  • Clownfish
  • Touch tank stingray
  • Seahorse
  • Diver in a tank
  • Moray eel
  • Starfish
  • Sea lion show
  • Tank with a shipwreck

Around the grounds

  • Carousel
  • Zoo train
  • Gift shop plush
  • Animal statue
  • Conservation sign
  • Petting zoo goat
  • Face painting
  • Donor wall
  • Splash pad
  • Map sign
  • Membership booth
  • Lemonade stand

Let's build a board for your park

Tell us about your zoo or aquarium: what makes it special, who comes through the gates, and what you most want them to notice. We'll come back with ideas for what a Tingo board could look like in your park. Let's Tingo works the same way for museum scavenger hunts, garden scavenger hunts and self-guided walking tours, and you'll find everything else we build on our partners page.

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