Things to find
Ideally cellphones, but you can work around this (see alternated section)
This one is for teams or individuals
This can be inside or out, but is best outside and best played somewhere all the players are familiar with
This is a scavenger hunt where you are sending players out hunting for objects you have hidden. The clues to the objects' locations are pictures you have taken that show the object in situ. The images show the object with just enough surrounding information to make finding them possible. When found they will open it up and send you a picture of what is inside, and you will then send them the next picture clue, and so on until the end.
Scoring is, as always, completely arbitrary, you can award only the winning team or award points on a sliding scale from fastest to slowest. Decide how you wish based on the number of players.
As I mentioned up top, this one works the best when the players have a good knowledge of the playing field, the images should just be hard enough that that can be worked out by studying the photo, usually because there is a landmark in the background which will orient them.
If you don't want to, or can't, do this using cellphones then you can have enough items in each "treasure" container for each team to bring one back to you, at which point you can give them the next clue as a printed picture.
I use little capsules (as pictured above) because I have them (geocaching), but you can use any container or even just a keyword written on some tape or paper would work. I will usually theme the objects or have the first letters of the objects spell out something, either directly or in an anagram, and offer extra points if they can work it out.
I usually have secondary clues which are much more obvious that players can request if they are stuck, obviously I dock points for this.
You can stagger start times, so teams aren't running in to each other, or you just leave it wide open and players can find them at their leisure.