Read, Unravel, Retrieve, Redeem! Four easy steps to claim cash prizes in CustardQuest treasure hunts. The following Six Questions is with the creator of these exciting armchair treasure hunts. Since 2012, over $1000 in cash has been awarded to finders! One hunt, CustardQuest IV, remains yet to be solved, and …
You don’t always need a lot of time to play a game. This is especially true with the game of Blink! Advertized as the world’s fastest game, Blink is what players better not do while playing or it could cost them the game! Two players compete at being the quickest …
What Happened to Bloody Island? Article Written by John Davis On a brisk morning, with wind wafting off the Mississippi river across from St. Louis, Missouri, the men faced each other with pistols, at barely more than arm’s length. They’d come to shoot at one another because of an ‘offense …
In the 2018 Six Questions with Forrest Fenn, he mentioned he had a gut feeling his treasure chest might be found in the summer. Some might ask, ‘What’s all inside the treasure chest?’ What is a searcher going to find? Here are the five items a searcher will surely find …
David Blaine, the infamous street magician, illusionist and endurance artist, published a book, Mysterious Stranger, in October 2002. This book was over 200 pages and included an armchair treasure hunt with a prize worth $100,000 dollars. It was solved in March of 2004 and the cash prize awarded. The winner …
One of the first armchair hunts my family and I worked on used the Polybius Square as its method of encoding. It was the 2004 Armchair Treasure Hunt entitled A Treasure’s Trove. The Polybius Square, in its most commonly used form, is a 5×5 grid filled with the alphabet. The …
Portraying the form of books when closed and out of their slipcase, the three board games of Life’s Mishaps, Domino Rex, and Diamond Hearts, discreetly sat on a shelf waiting to be pulled down for a night of entertainment. The board of Life’s Mishaps is featured fully on the outside …
It is sometimes unbelievable the amount of money Movie Memorabilia can go for. Movie Memorabilia can be in the form of props, costumes, posters, scripts, or other objects connected to a film. Take for example a movie poster for, The Mummy. In 1997, it was auctioned off for 453,000. Which …
Across the Sea by Milton Bradley was published in the early 1900’s. Two intertwining red and blue spiral tracks take players ‘across the sea’ and through cities of the world. Produced at a time when everyday travel to the places depicted on the board was uncommon, the game helped players …
Submitted to MW by Jeremy Milstead If you have something you would like to submit to MW to share with readers, please email treasure@mysteriouswritings.com Submitted by Jeremy Milstead: Not too long ago, I stumbled onto a POW/KIA memorial forum that had an entry from 9/7/01, whereby Forrest was reaching out …
