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 virtual maze (called an aMazing trail) using your mobile phone, using GPS guidance and multimedia. The aMazing trails are located in public parks across the UK. Walking is a great 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 the devastating desease of Alzheimer’s, but we were determined to keep doing our favourite activities as long as possible. The one thing she enjoys the most is walking, as does Peter, and it is great for health and wellbeing So creating an outside activity Web App for families, which anyone with a smart phone can access, seemed a great thing to do as a means of raising money for Alzheimer's Research.

LIn & Peter are also virtually "Rambling across Europe" as a means of raising money for ALzheimer's Research and will reach Rome at Xmas 2023 having taken 2 years to walk the 2,400km from Dartmouth to Rome. Follow them on their Facebook feed: here

As a technologist Peter has always been interested in how technology can be applied to every day life. Having trained as a volunteer 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 Web App. 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 a large educational project at Devon Wildlife Trust. 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 the devastating diseases of the brain.

Contact us: support@walkwyse.com

aMazing trail Prize Competition Rules
"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.

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Competition rules

• The purpose of this prize competition is for you to have fun on a free outside activity during the summer holidays, as well as raise money for Alzheimer's Research. Click on the image below to make a donation.
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• Prizes are awarded using the following rules:
  • The competition period is between 8am on July 15th and 7pm on September 3rd.
  • There are 7 weekly prize draws. A week finishes at 7pm on Sunday July 23rd and 30th, August 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th and September 3rd.
  • The first individual, drawn at random on one of the weekly prize draws, who has a score of 100 points or more will win a £150 Amazon voucher.
• A Walkwyse Web App user can only win one prize, once they have won a prize they will be removed from subsequent draws in this competition.
• If you enjoyed the trail, we would appreciate it if you posted/tweeted an image of the park (ideally a selfie) on your social media with @WalkwyseUK (facebook), @walkwyse (Instagram and Twitter)
• 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 take an aMazing trail at any time during the competition period and as many times as you like to try to improve your knowledge of the maze and obtain a score of 100 or more.
• Only those individuals who complete the aMazing trail (that is they reach the finish) during the competition dates, 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.

Walkwyse survey prize draw Rules
"aMazing trails: a fun outside virtual maze game requiring skill and a smart phone"

Web App survey

click on the button above to complete the survey

• 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.

The aMazing trails Badges
"a fun outside virtual maze game requiring skill and a smart phone"

The purpose of the badges is as a reward for achievable targets which can be completed relatively easily, but which can then be added to by ever more difficult targets. In the future selected badges will unlock new features on the maze which will increase the games complexity and your score.

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Badge descriptions

• aMazing badge: A badge with the total number of completed mazes displayed, including multiple completions of the same maze.
• Mad-Max badge: A badge with the total number of different mazes completed, multiple times on the same maze are not counted.
• Ultra badge: A badge with the total distance in km displayed
• Persistence badge: A badge with the total hours spent on the mazes displayed
• Performance badge: Where the measurement is the distance travelled/time taken
• Sloth: awarded for anyone completing a maze at a paltry average speed of 0.1m/sec or less
• Tortoise: awarded for anyone completing a maze at a slow average speed of betwen 0.5m/sec and 1m/sec
• Badger: awarded for anyone completing a maze at a normal average speed of 1m/sec and less than 2m/sec
• Cheetah: awarded for anyone completing a maze at a speedy average speed of between 2m and 4m per sec
• Falcon: awarded for anyone completing a maze at a magnificent average speed of 4m/sec or more
• Gathering badge is awarded for completing a mazing with a group of people, the number of people is defined by the number of devices (with different logins) which complete the same maze within 10 minutes of each other:
• Waddle (of ducks) - 5+
• Flock (of birds) - 10+
• Herd (of sheep) - 25+
• Parade (of elephants) - 50+
• Migration (of widlerbeast) - 100+
• Olympic badge: Top of one or more leader boards at the end of each month.
• Bronze:
• Silver:
• Gold:
• Sharing badge
• Shared with 5 others on your social media page
• Shared with 25 others on your social media page
• Shared with 100 others on your social media page
• Donation badge £100, £250, £500, £1000. When donating via the Just Giving page please use a unique ID (find it in your myAdmin area) in the message so we can link it to your account details.