Part game, part real world
Cruise ducks: hide them, find them, follow their journey
Hiding rubber ducks for fellow passengers is one of cruising's friendliest traditions. Port Hopper World turns it into a game you can play before, during and after your cruise.
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- Sneaky Barnacle
What are cruise ducks?
Cruise ducks are small rubber ducks that guests hide around a ship for other guests to stumble upon. Find one and you can keep it as a souvenir or hide it again for the next person. Most carry a little tag saying who sent them and where they started, and finders love to share where a duck turned up.
How Port Hopper ducks work
- Collect them in the game. Each of the 44 ships in Port Hopper World carries 50 ducks, 2,200 in all. While your ship is at sea, tap it and pick one of three quick games: Duck Net, Duck Shuffle or Quack Back. You need a score of 85 or more for a chance at a duck, with 3 casts on every voyage. Different waters hold different ducks.
- Make a tag. Open any duck you have netted and make its QR tag. Print it at about business-card size.
- Tell everyone your sailing. Add the ship and dates of your cruise and the ducks you are bringing. The duck sailings board shows every cruise with ducks aboard, how many have been found and how many are still hidden.
- Hide a real duck. Tie the tag to a rubber duck and hide it on board.
- Follow its journey. Every scan and every logged find shows up in the duck's journey log, which you and the finders can both see.
Found a duck with a Port Hopper tag?
Scan the code with your phone camera. You will see the duck's name, the ship it belongs to and who has found it so far. Tap I found this duck to add yourself to its journey. If you are new you can start playing in under a minute: enter your email, type the one-time code we send, and choose a ship. New explorers get a welcome bonus of Travel Coins.
What the hider earns
Ducks are about fun first. When your duck is logged as found during a cruise you listed, you earn 50 Season Points, within the daily Ducks at sea limit, and 100 Travel Coins. At other times a find by an existing player adds to the duck’s journey log and nothing else. When a finder is new, joins through your duck and plays to Explorer Level 3, you earn +0.01% prestige for good, for up to five new explorers in each 14-day championship. Your profile also has a personal Scan me code that works the same way for friends and family. See how to play for the details.
Good duck manners
- Hide ducks in public guest areas where anyone can reach them safely, without climbing or leaning.
- Keep them away from stairways, railings, planters, shops, pools and hot tubs, dining areas, safety equipment and anywhere marked crew only.
- Accounts are for adults. If a child finds a duck, a parent or guardian can log the find on their own account.
- When you log a find you can add a short note about where it was. Leave out cabin numbers and other personal details.
- Follow any guidance your cruise line gives about ducks, and never leave them where they could fall overboard.
- Port Hopper World is an independent game and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any cruise line.
Questions
What are cruise ducks?
Cruise ducks are small rubber ducks that passengers hide around a cruise ship for other guests to find. Whoever finds one can keep it or hide it again. Many ducks carry a tag saying where they came from, so finders can share where they turned up.
How do Port Hopper ducks work?
In Port Hopper World every ship carries 50 collectible ducks. You win them in three quick mini-games while your ship is sailing. Any duck in your collection can have a QR tag, which you print and tie to a real rubber duck before hiding it on a real cruise.
What happens when someone scans my duck?
They land on that duck's own page, with its name, its ship and a journey log. If they sign in they can log the find, and the log shows every explorer who has found it.
Do I earn anything when my duck is found?
If it is found during a cruise you listed, you earn 50 Season Points, within the daily Ducks at sea limit, and 100 Travel Coins. When the finder is new to the game, joins through your duck and reaches Explorer Level 3, you earn a small permanent prestige boost, for up to five new explorers per championship. Finders earn Travel Coins for logging a duck.
Is it free?
Yes. Port Hopper World is free to play. You sign in with a one-time email code, with no password and nothing to buy.
Where should I hide a duck on a ship?
Choose public guest areas where a duck can be reached safely without climbing or leaning, such as a lounge shelf. Keep ducks away from stairways, railings, planters, shops, pools and hot tubs, dining areas, safety equipment and crew areas, and follow any guidance your cruise line gives about ducks.