The Cipher is an one page document/video by Niamo Speck. The person who created this hunt remains anonymous. However, I can personally vouch for the hunt’s credibility. It is legit and a prize waits to be claimed. The video (with link below it to a Google Doc of same image) …
The MW Forum provides an excellent place for discussions on multiple treasure hunts and hidden caches. Many found treasures over the years have been from hunts listed on the site. One of these listed, with amazing fun keepsake treasures, has been the free hunts offered by Forgotten History Hunts. These …
The Great US Treasure Hunt, for $40,000 worth of prizes, was released on November 13, via an Ebook, now available on Amazon. It is known in order to discover the locations of 4 hidden proxy items, each used to claim a $10,000 treasure, searchers have to break a code. One …
One of the clues discovered in the Fandango Armchair Treasure Hunt involved the use of a Null Cipher. The Null Cipher is a form of Steganography. It hides a message within plain text. And while there are multiple ways the system can be used to ‘hide a message’, it’s often …
The Art of Hidden Messages releases armchair treasure hunts all throughout the year. These are meant to be solved in a relatively short time. They provide challenging fun for those who take up the treasure hunt adventures, and offer unique prizes! Some of TAOHM hunts are fully armchair, meaning …
The Beacon Star armchair treasure hunt was published in 2017 by Randy Pischel. It remains unsolved (as of this writing), and offers a Treasure valued at over $5,000 dollars to the first person who can solve it. A few of the puzzles inside the book have been solved. However, there …
Code Warriors, by Stephen Budiansky Alfred A. Knopf: New York Book Review by John Davis The arts and sciences need for codes and code breaking are as old as man himself. The secret world they augur is one of mystery, but as Stephen Budiansky points out, one of law as …
The Ultimate Quest, published in 2001, was an armchair treasure hunt book. It has since been discontinued and remains an unsolved treasure hunt of today. The Prize was to be ‘a priceless replica of the Grail cup’. In order to have claimed the ‘Grail’, searchers needed to discover the contact …
MW’s Codes and Ciphers Series continues to introduce different examples of how codes, ciphers, riddles, and puzzles have been used to hide clues in armchair treasure hunts. This helps both new and old treasure hunters get their creative minds in gear. It may even help you recognize a secret message …
In the previous MW Codes, Ciphers, and Puzzles Series, I shared an image hiding a message using Morse Code. It was in the Flowers and Leaves. It might have looked like an ordinary decorative frame around an cute dog, but it hid a message. This message of Morse Code was …
