for fun, wellbeing and in aid of charity
aMazing trails are a new type of outdoor trail consisting of a pirate themed virtual maze game, which you have to solve using the GPS and compass features on your mobile device.
The virtual mazes are located in hundreds of public parks across the UK. Sign up to participate and try an aMazing trail, entry is FREE, our only request is that if you enjoy the maze, please make a donation to Alzheimer's Research.
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aMazing trail Competition - top prize of £1,000
The aMazing trail prize competition with a top prize of £1000 (rules apply), is active between April 1st and May 8th 2023. The sooner you start trying a maze the better chance you have of getting a high score!Sign up to take one of our Nature Trails:
- Discovery trails:Learn about the nature & history of an area whilst following a GPS guided trail
- Buster the bear trails:Listen to the story of Buster the bear and his animal friends from the Rockies, whilst following a GPS guided trail
- Just-trails: Take a GPS guided trail in the countryside by following a trail of points on your phone, no need for paper maps! We call these walks "Just-trails" as we do not provide any commentry about the nature or history along the trail!
- Discover a location:Wander around a formal garden, historic ground or a school nature 'safari' (private access code required) by finding points of interest
About Walkwyse
EduTechWyse Ltd is a not for profit company, set up by Lin & Peter Horne, which is responsible for the development and support of the Walkwyse outside activity Web App and its aim of raising funds for Alzheimer's Research.
The Walkwyse Web App is a great way to enjoy a self guided trail or maze using your mobile phone, with GPS guidance and multimedia stories making an interesting walk even more enjoyable. Walking is a natural way to get the exercise we all need as well as being extremely important for mental health & general wellbeing.
In 2019 Lin was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and the one thing she enjoys the most is walking, as does Peter. So creating an outside activity Web App for families, which anyone with a smart phone can access, seemed an obvious thing to do as a means of raising money for Alzheimer's Research.
As a technologist Peter has always been interested in seeing how technology can be applied to every day life. Having also trained as a guide at the National Arboretum at Westonbirt in 2018, he was well versed in leading walkers around a trail and providing them with fascinating facts about nature and history. During Covid lockdowns (when guiding was not possible at Westonbirt) he set about the challenge of converting this knowledge into brief audio/visual stories which could be GPS triggered at relevant locations around a walk with a webapp. Thus Walkwyse was born!
More recently the product has been significantly enhanced to support complex trails such as the new aMazing trails, which are virtual mazes. A competitive element has been included where individuals can try to get the higheste score by completing the maze in the shortest time & distance whilst collecting virtual treasure. Great fun for all the family!
In addition to Alzheimer’s research EduTechWyse supports Alzheimer's Society, Parkinson’s, Devon Air Ambulance, Field Studies Council (FSC), Devon Wildlife Trust and Children In Need. Lin & Peter are keen to support both education in the outdoors for the younger generation as well as help fund research to find cures for some of the devastating diseases of age.
Contact us: support@walkwyse.com
"a fun outside virtual maze game requiring skill and a smart phone"
Take one of our aMazing trails in a public park near to you and get to the top of the leader board by collecting as much treasure as possible in a quick time. You can take the maze as many times as you like and keep improving your score to become top of the leader board.
If there is not a maze in a suitable public park near you, please let us know and we will try and create one in time for you to take part in the competition.
- The main purpose of this prize competition is to raise money for Alzheimer's Research through particpants making a donation via our page on Just Giving, click on the button below.
Donate to Alzheimer's Research
via JustGiving.com - The competition runs between April 1st and 6pm on May 8th. Prizes are awarded using the following rules:
- All prizes will be drawn at random from those individuals who have achieved the following scores.
- a score of 120 or more, the first drawn at random will win a £1,000 Amazon voucher.
- a score of 90 or more, the first 5 drawn at random will win a £200 Amazon voucher
- a score of 60 or more, the first 25 drawn at random will win a £50 Amazon voucher
- Posted/tweeted on your social media with the @WalkwyseUK (facebook), @walkwyse (Instagram and Twitter
- After you have completed a maze fill in a short questionnaire on your experience using this Web App. Click on the button below to complete the survey (from April 1st).
- A Walkwyse Web App user can only win one prize, once they have won a prize they are removed from subsequent draws in this competition.
- The Amazon vouchers will be emailed to the winners using the email address they used to login to this Web App.
- To participate in an aMazing trail you must have a smart phone with GPS location services and ideally with a digital compass service.
- You can at any time take an aMazing trail to try to improve your knowledge of the maze and obtain a higher score.
- Only those individuals who complete the aMazing trail (that is they reach the finish) between April 1st and May 8th 2023 will be entered into the prize competition.
- The developer reserves the right to remove entries from the leader board which have scores which are due to bugs in the software, the user will be informed of the removal of the score from the leader board and given the chance to try again. <
Additionally to be entered into the draw you must also have done the following:
"aMazing trails: a fun outside virtual maze game requiring skill and a smart phone"
- The survey prize draw runs between March 10th and May 8th.
- All completed form submitted during the month will be entered into the draw.
- The first FIVE randomly drawn completed surveys on May 9th will be emailed a £50 Amazon voucher.
- The Amazon voucher will be emailed to the winner of the draw using the email address they entered on the form.
- Only one prize can be won by a user, a user is defined by the email address they entered on the form.
