The Vault 2: Treasure & Faries is set for release on November 15th! (UPDATE! NOW available on Amazon) This book is a collection of original puzzle hunts crafted by a talented group of creators, each bringing their own imagination, logic, and storytelling style to the chase. Every hunt is self-contained, …
A $10,000 CASH treasure waits to be claimed in the Charlie Porter CIPHER treasure hunt! Nine secret messages are hidden within the music – but Charlie says you do NOT need to be an expert to solve any of the clues. These clues will lead you to a proxy item …
Trezor Quest Initial Riddles have vanished! Level 1 of the website has been replaced with Level 2. However, I took screenshots of the Rock Riddle and Location Riddle to archive. You can see them below. For those unfamiliar – Trezor.Quest is a free hunt to play. The treasure is 15K …
Join the adventures in the Amnesia Treasure Hunt! (Discussions on the MW Discord) Quill and Compass – creators of successful BookShop treasure hunt – have released another treasure hunt! How exciting! The hunt was released in June (2025) and is fully armchair – meaning not only the puzzles, but claiming …
Following are 8 fall 2024 treasure hunts that are fully armchair. For those unfamiliar, an armchair treasure hunt is a produced puzzle hunt with clues to find a treasure. Some of these require BOTG – physically going out to a secreted location to retrieve the actual treasure or to retrieve …
The following list of the Top Ten UNSOLVED armchair treasure hunts of 2023 includes a few that have been recently published in the early months of 2023. Others were published over the last couple of years, but remain yet to be solved. For those unfamiliar with what an armchair treasure …
Not all treasure hunts end with all answers being revealed. A Treasure’s Trove of 2004, and Alchemist Dar, both published by Michael Stadther, are some which left a few questions. Recently, Randy of The Beacon Star generously sent me a clean copy of Clue #3! Mine was all marked up …
In a previous post, an explanation was given for how K1 of Kryptos was solved. Kryptos is an encrypted sculpture located in the CIA courtyard in Langley, VA. This artistic feature, created by Jim Sanborn, has eluded all those who have tried to discover it’s full meaning since November 1990. …
Since November of 1990, an encrypted text engraved on a large S shape copper plate, waits to be fully deciphered. The Kryptos Sculpture, made by Jim Sanborn for the main courtyard of the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA, is believed to consist of four parts. Each is to be separately …
A curious inscription on an 18th century monument in Staffordshire, England continues to baffle minds today. Carved into a marble slab are the letters OUOSVAVV, in between slightly lowered letters of D and M, with periods after each letter. These mysterious writings are part of the Shepherd’s Monument on the …
