Mysterious Writings is the leading website on active armchair treasure hunts, as well as those of the past.
Multiple treasure hunt puzzles, that are currently in progress, are listed on the site for your convenience. Summaries, updates, and information about how to get started on armchair treasure hunts can be found here.
For a list of active armchair treasure hunts please click here: Treasure Hunts. There you will find a quick run down on all the what, where, when, why, who, and hows for each of the hunts.
If you are new to the hobby, be sure to check out the post of How to Get Started in Armchair Treasure Hunting. It includes lots of tips and examples of how past armchair treasure hunts have been solved, which in turn will help you understand how those of today might be hiding clues for you to solve.
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MW continues this segment on The Contributors of The First Masquerade Tribute with Bill Gardner of Kodeword Kards! In a previous MW Six Questions with Bill, we learned he had explored numerous different treasure hunts and puzzles over the years, and in doing so, had come up with lots of …
In the fall of 2019, Robert Brewer launched The Lost Skull Armchair Treasure Hunt. The treasure of that hunt was a Marble Skull, along with $1000 cash! There were additional follow-up prizes as well, and all were claimed by the spring of 2020. Robert had combined his skills as a …
David Jacobsen, of The Wonderland Treasure Hunts, has released another book with clues to not one ‘treasure hunt’, but Three! The book is entitled The Mad Tea Party and is available on Amazon. At the end of November 2020, The Hatter’s Hat treasure hunt was released. This hunt requires a …
The launch of The First Annual Masquerade Tribute continues to draw near! It is going to be the hunt of the year! Nine different Treasure Hunts with Nine different Treasures to claim, valued at over $3,000 total, are part of this incredible Tribute. All proceeds go to three great Charities …
The book, Higher and Higher, encourages young listeners (and readers) to seek higher and higher, gaze beyond the furthest stars, and to travel where dreams wait to be discovered. But the book also sparked the question, ‘What happens to those wishes made upon the stars?’ Surely they’re not lost there……cast …
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing a bit of information about those creating the Treasure Hunts for The First Annual Masquerade Tribute! As you may be aware the Masquerade Tribute will consist of NINE different treasure hunts, with NINE different treasures to claim, made by NINE different treasure …
Just a few short months ago, on November 13th, 2020, The Great US Treasure Hunt was released by David Steele and Jeff Kessler. Four Treasure Tokens, each worth $10,000 in cash, were hidden across the US. Clues to find the exact locations of these tokens were encoded inside The Great …
Two years ago, on Valentine’s Day 2019, the Secret Tribute: Hunt for the 13th Casque was released. This armchair treasure hunt, created by John Michaels and Kit Palencar, is free to all. All the Clues needed to discover the location of the buried key to claim the treasure can be …
A book which didn’t have a title when published, certainly ended up being referred to by many titles over the years. Kit Williams, who published the first armchair treasure hunt, Masquerade, in 1979, released another puzzle book, in May of 1984. But instead of discovering the location of a buried …
Ten years ago an 18carat Golden Acorn was buried somewhere in the beautiful English countryside. It remains there yet today, and waits to be found! Might YOU be the one to find this magical treasure?! Clues in order to discover the Golden Acorn are being given on the Nuts in …
