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.
Join other searchers on the MW Forum , MW DISCORD Channel, or the MW Facebook Treasure Hunting Group for discussions. You can also subscribe to MW’s YouTube Channel, and/or Newsletter, to keep up to date on all that’s happening here on MW treasures, puzzles, and games.
Get your Quest on! Solve the clues and find some treasures.
Over the last few months a few new Armchair Treasure Hunts have been released. A basic definition for an Armchair Treasure Hunt is ‘a produced hunt for a treasure which has been intentionally hidden and requires the solving of clues, to either physically find a hidden treasure in the real …
The following answers to Six Questions captures so much of what Treasure Hunting is about! As you read about Nick’s and Robert’s adventures, you can feel the excitement, and joy of victory, they experienced. I love sharing Found Treasure stories like this! Thank you so much, Nick and Robert, for …
Over 25 years ago, a ‘Perilous Dragontooth’ was buried somewhere in Britain. Today, the Quest for this lost treasure continues! Although some searchers have fallen by the wayside through the years, some have continued on; And now others are just beginning! Get caught up in the adventures to help discover …
UPDATE: TREAURE HUNT HAS ENDED How exciting! Another Armchair Treasure Hunt has been published and offers the chance to claim a treasure cache of numerous items collected from all over the world. The book, needed to solve the four stages of the hunt and claim the valuable treasure, is called …
Two $500 Cash Prizes! Can you be the first person to find the Final Kodeword or can you be the first person to find ALL the Kodewords in the deck of Kodewords Kards? Or maybe…..will you be both, and win a $1000 prize?! This Thanksgiving Holiday comes with the release …
Have you searched for treasure? MW would love to share your story! I know how exciting hearing about other searcher’s stories can be. We have such a great community of friends here at MW—all in the search for treasures– and love Treasure Stories! So if you would like to share your …
A Treasure Map hidden in Music?! Sounds…….like an awesome challenge! BornTalent has applied his musical talents to creating an exciting Armchair Treasure Hunt called The Golden CD! Clues given within 5 songs will take a searcher on a journey to discover a ‘Golden CD’ with a code! This can then …
Get your Quest on with MW! This is the place to learn about treasures! Over the last few months, a few new Armchair Treasure Hunts have been released. These are in addition to the many already listed on MW and the MW Forum! Below is a brief summary of these …
Article Written by Josh S. (aka GoldenChild on MW) Last October I had the pleasure of becoming absolutely obsessed and a tad bit insane over the hunt for a Pony Express box with an unknown quantity of Silver Morgan dollars, gold nuggets and a Colt Peacemaker. It was a treasure …
The Lost Skull armchair treasure hunt has been released throughout the galaxy! And so all you have to do to get started is order the book on Amazon and begin solving the clues! UPDATE: THE LOST SKULL HAS BEEN SOLVED Previously on MW, we had the chance to chat with …
