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.
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Tap4Treasure is the new armchair treasure hunt division for MW and is FREE to play. Since its launch in March 2018, there have been 4 cash winners. Will you be the next one? The Tap4Treasure hunts were launched on March 21st with Mission #001. It was the hunt for Thisbe’s …
In the Fall of 2015, I had the great pleasure of asking Six Questions to Douglas Pearson, author of The Bossall Treasure and creator of The Bossall Treasure Hunt. Again, I have that wonderful opportunity! To date, no one has solved the clues within the book to discover the book’s …
In 2014, Douglas Pearson hid a Golden Lorraine Cross somewhere in the UK. The book, The Bossall Treasure, is an armchair treasure hunt book which includes eleven clues leading searchers to its secreted location. Anyone who discovers this location hidden in the book can claim the cross. There is no …
Tap4Treasure is a new division of MW Treasure Hunts and is FREE to play. All a person needs to do is report for duty at T4THQ (Tap4Treasure.com) and receive Dispatches. From these Dispatches, T4T Agents try to ascertain the hidden locations of treasures being stealthily distributed across underground networks. Missions …
What an awesome pleasure it is to have the opportunity of asking Six Questions to the Award-Winning Puzzle and Game Designer, Cliff Johnson. Cliff gained wide recognition after creating his captivating computer puzzle game, The Fool’s Errand, in 1987. From this successful endeavor of weaving storytelling in with puzzle solving, …
Mysterious Writings is excited to announce a new sister website called Tap 4 Treasure! T4T is a new division of MW. The upcoming MW Treasure Hunt is being released on March 21st on Tap4Treasure. This Hunt is FREE to play! Prize values are not yet determined. Multiple hunts are planned. …
The Beacon Star is a mysterious book written by Randy Picshel. It is said to hold the location of a ‘secret treasure’ for readers to find in the ‘real-world’. The prize is valued at over $5,000 dollars. The 77 pages (printed version) are mysterious writings, and images, indeed! On the …
How exciting it is to chat with another winner of an Armchair Treasure Hunt! Congrats to Larry G! for solving the clues and deducing the location to the hidden cache in the Read and Seek Treasure Hunt by Martin Smith. A successful ending to the hunt! Cheers to all! Read …
Get ready to enter a world of adventure with the Hidden Secrets Mobile Treasure Hunting Game. The expected launch for this exciting- Free to play game- is planned for late Spring (2018), with the release of the first in a series of hunts. Players of Hidden Secrets: Escape Through Time …
Many people hadn’t realized armchair treasures hunts existed until vast attention was devoted to the search for Forrest Fenn’s treasure. Forrest Fenn’s treasure hunt was a search for a million-dollar bronze treasure chest, filled with gold and other jewels, hidden somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe. The incredible …
