Desert Island

Treasure Hunt
Will you be Captain Patch or Captain Longbeard?
Race to see who can find the other’s treasure first,
and practise using coordinates too!

You will need: The Story...

• Two copies of the Captain Patch and Captain Longbeard are two
treasure map and pirates. They’re arch-enemies and they’ve both
chests (page 3)
been shipwrecked on a desert island. After lots
• Scissors
of arguing about where to build their shelters
• Sticky tack
they decide to split the island in two.
This game is for two
players. They both have hoards of treasure to hide, so
they bury all of their treasure chests in various
places on their own parts of the island.

But one night, they both have the same daring

plan – to sneak over to the other side of the
island in the middle of the night and start
digging for treasure. Who will be the first to
dig up all of their enemy’s treasure?

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What to do Desert Island Treasure Hunt (continued)

1. Choose who will be Captain Longbeard and who will be
Captain Patch.
2. Cut out your treasure chests.
Captain Patch's part Captain Longbeard's
of the island part of the island
5
3. With your map hidden from
enemy eyes, carefully stick all 4

of your treasure chests onto 3

your side of the map. These
2
are your treasure chest hiding
places. 1

Note: Each chest should be

−5 0
placed over a point on−4the−3 −2 −1
−1
1 2 3 4 5

coordinate grid e.g. (1,4).

Desert Island Treasure Hunt (continued)
−2
4. Take turns to ‘dig’ at a particular coordinate on your
opponent’s side of the map. Say a coordinate
−3 for where
you think the treasure may
Captain be part
Patch's buried.
−4 If Captain
thereLongbeard's
is treasure
of the island
buried at that grid point, your opponent part of
must takethe island
that
5
−5
treasure chest off their map.
4
5. The winner is the first person to find all the coordinates
3
covered by enemy treasure.
Cut out your treasure chests to use in the game.

Top tip 1
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If you’re not sure how to give a grid reference,

−5 −4 −3 −2 −1 0
here are some tips. 1 2 3 4 5
−1

The two bold lines with numbers on are called axes.

−2
The horizontal axis is called the x-axis and the
vertical axis is called the y-axis. Find a point on −3

the grid where you want to dig. Look straight up or −4

down to the x-axis and see what number your point
−5
lines up with. Look straight across to the y-axis and
see what number your point lines up with. Say these two numbers, giving
the x-axis number first. So, for example, the tent lines up with 2 on the
Cut out your treasure chests to use in the game.
x-axis and with 3 on the y-axis, so its coordinates are (2,–3).
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Desert Island Treasure Hunt (continued)

Captain Patch's part Captain Longbeard's

of the island part of the island
5

−5 −4 −3 −2 −1 0
1 2 3 4 5
−1

−2

−3

−4

−5

Cut out your treasure chests to use in the game.

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