UPDATED: March 2019:
Armchair treasure hunts are a great way to work the mind, have exciting adventures, and find real life hidden treasures!
These type of treasure hunts allow you to research, discover, and solve clues right from the chair of your own home; and then once you feel you have solved enough clues and hints, they either inspire you to go in search and retrieve those lost treasures, or can be claimed right from your home.
How great is that?! What might you solve and find? Below are the Top Ten Armchair Treasure Hunts, and their lost treasures, available for you to find today.
There are some in the West, some in the East, some in the Middle, some in other countries, and some Who Knows where?!
Some of these hunts have cash prizes on spot, others have redeemable tokens or relics. Some are worth a few hundred dollars while others are worth thousands or even over a Million Dollars- if you can solve the clues leading you to those secreted treasure locations.
What they all have in common is hidden fun. This is sure to be a found treasure by those daring enough to take up the challenges to enjoy them. Remember, Always Treasure the Adventure, and best of luck with all that you seek!
1) Forrest Fenn’s Armchair Treasure Hunt
It has to be said the ultimate armchair treasure hunt out there right now is Forrest Fenn’s Poem and treasure hunt. Since 2010, a secreted 1150 AD Bronze Treasure Chest filled with gold, gems, and other extraordinary artifacts, worth over a MILLION dollars has been waiting in the Rocky Mountains for someone to find. A person only needs to follow Forrest Fenn’s Poem to retrieve it.
Sounds simple. And it is. What is difficult is understanding exactly what the clues in Forrest Fenn’s Poem are and how they direct a searcher to the lost treasure. To date, no one has been able to correctly identity and follow all nine clues provided in the Poem to the Treasure Chest’s location.
Below, you will find other Treasure Hunts to pursue. Which treasure are you going to go after? Can’t decide? Then do them all or a few more than just one! It is good for every searcher now and then to take a break from a hunt. NOW I didn’t say take a break from treasure hunting…..just a break from doing the same hunt. Take some time off and work on another hunt for a while because that can actually help spur new thoughts on all of them!
2) Forrest Fenn Gold Medallion Treasure Hunts
The first Forrest Fenn Gold Medallion treasure hunt was released on January 3rd, 2019. This hunt launched a series of Quests for hidden stones that can be used to claim Forrest Fenn Gold Medallions. The hunts are released approximately every two weeks on the websites: MysteriousWritings.com (this one) and Dalneitzel.com.
The initial ten hunts are in the Appalachian Valley, but will expand out to include locations all across the United States, and even overseas.
The prizes, the Forrest Fenn Gold Medallions, are extremely collectible and valuable as there has only been produced a limited 50 for these hunts with the date 1/3/18 marked on them. The FFGM’s were approved by Forrest Fenn and are exclusive. Read more about these exciting treasure hunts here: Forrest Fenn Gold Medallion Treasure Hunts.
3)Tap4Treasure
Tap4Treasure is an online treasure hunt game Free to play! Players become T4T Secret Agents to track down lost treasures and claim bounties. It’s as simple as that.
To play simply visit the T4T Headquarters and sign up for the BLAST: Bulletin for Licensed Agents Seizing Treasures. When a Mission is dispatched, Agents are notified and told to be on alert for following dispatches. From these dispatches, T4T Agents track down the location of a drop site for a lost treasure, and transmit the discerned location to Headquarters to claim a bounty!
Missions and Bounties vary. Visit Tap4Treasure.com and get ready to play the next mission!
4) The TreasureMan’s (H. Charles Beil) Buried Treasure Caches
H Charles Beil, also known as TreasureMan, is on a mission to hide a treasure cache in each of the States. The caches may contain jewels, silver bars, old relics, gold, coins, or other unique and valuable items. One cache, titled The Lost Cross Cache consists of a gold cross with 6 embedded emeralds valued at around $3000 dollars each.
To get involved in finding the TreasureMan’s hidden Caches, an individual simply needs to register at the Treasure Illustrated forum to access a private section on that forum. Once registered, a searcher will find the needed clues to discover the caches via Free PDF downloads, maps, images, and/or videos. Please join in on the discussions there or on the MW Forum.
5) The Beacon Star (Available on Amazon)
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’; but what that prize exactly is remains unknown. All the more exciting!
Evidently, only once someone solves the clues in the book will they learn where, and be able to discover what, is being hidden. Can you discover The Beacon Star’s secret treasure? Read more here: The Beacon Star
6) Fandango Armchair Treasure Hunt (Available on Amazon)
The $10,000 dollar treasure to find for the Fandango Armchair Treasure Hunt is narrowed down to Mount Desert Island in Maine. This must be found before Thanksgiving Day, 2020. Clues to solve for its exact location are given, both literal and visual, in a book you can purchase entitled Fandango.
The puzzle has many similarities to one of the first Armchair Treasure Hunts created. This 1979 UK hunt was called Masquerade. The solution for that puzzle had searchers drawing lines from points in the images to letters in the border surrounding those images. A Master Riddle was formed by using those letters, and once that riddle was solved, it led to the buried prize.
A Master Riddle needs to be discovered in Fandango as well. The solving of it will lead a hunter to the Golden Key: the $10,000 dollar prize.
7) Custard’s Quest Armchair Treasure Hunt
A small ‘rock token’ redeemable for a $200 dollar cash prize remains hidden somewhere in the USA. Searchers only need to go the Custard’s Quest’s Website, read the story, solve the clues, and retrieve the token to claim the prize. These isn’t any cost to enter.
In a previous Custard Hunt, a coded stone redeemable for $350 dollars was found by a person who decided to just check out the story. He was bored one night and thought he would read a story of CQ. What happened was he recognized clues in the story to be near where he lived! He later went and retrieved the stone for the prize! You never know what treasure awaits out there for you, unless you initiate the search first!
8) The Oracle Armchair Treasure Hunt
$6,000 dollars. Waits. Been waiting to be claimed by whoever solves the clues in The Oracle since 2005. The book can be downloaded for less than $5 dollars, and shares the adventure of two young boys traveling through space and time. They visit many places of different ‘Times’. By researching these adventures, Hunters begin to realize clues in both images and text of the book. These will then help solve the ‘Token’s location’, which is then redeemable for the cash prize.
The token is hidden in the UK. However, if a reader feels he has solved the puzzle, he can forward a solution, and if correct, be rewarded with the prize. Like all hunts, Families are encouraged to work together and discover treasure in many more ways than just the one.
9) The Secret Armchair Treasure Hunt (Available on Amazon)
Hidden over 30 years ago, 12 hidden ceramic casks of the Secret treasure hunt were buried throughout North America (Canada is known to have one). However, only 2 have been found. The other 10 have eluded searchers.
Each cask holds a key redeemable for a valuable gem. Will they ever be found? Will even one more ever be found? The passing of time, and the changing of locations through developments and growth of communities have made these casks particularly challenging to locate. The reason for this is because ‘verses’ (with matching images) provided clues to the secreted spots. It is believed many of the casks were buried in spots where the clues of the verses are not as easily recognized or have vanished with destructions.
10) The Whistle Pig Armchair Treasure Hunt
Since 2003 a ‘KEY’ has remained hidden for anyone to find. By reading the 10 short stories in the book, searchers are encouraged to ‘open their minds’ and discover and solve clues leading to a location of the Key of the Whistle Pig’s Armchair Treasure Hunt. The book states, ‘The value of the Key’s physical location can only be discovered by searching out and prizing the allusions and references embedded within the stories.’
Puzzlers today are not certain what the final value of the Key is. OR even what the KEY is. It remains to be solved. But anyone who reads and takes up the challenge to begin investigating and searching for this book’s Key is sure to find value and treasure in multiple ways. Treasure the Adventure is my motto, and this book encourages such.
MORE ARMCHAIR TREASURE HUNT LINKS:
Here at Mysterious Writings we cover many Treasure Hunts! Past and Present.
Please use the following menu to guide you to the numerous sub-topics on them and
join us on the MW Forum for discussions:
Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Hunt Links: (The Thrill of the Chase)
(Treasure worth a million dollars hidden somewhere in the Rocky Mountains)
The Thrill of the Chase Summary and Links
Featured Questions with Forrest
Surprise, Periodic, and Random Words with Forrest
Six Questions with TTOTC Searchers
Forrest Fenn Gold Medallion Treasure Hunts
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Other Active Armchair Treasure Hunts:
Here is a brief summary on the Top Ten Armchair Treasure Hunts currently going on now!
Forrest Fenn Gold Medallion Treasure Hunts (small hunts for collectible FFGM Medallions)
The Secret (Hunt for buried casques with key to claim valuable gemstone)
The Beacon Star (Hunt for a treasure worth over $5,000)
BOTG Clothing Treasure Hunts (Hunts for various prizes)
Fandango (Hunt for treasure worth $10,000 cash. Hidden somewhere on Mount Desert Island, Maine)
The Oracle (Hunt for hidden treasure worth around $6,000 cash)
Tap4Treasure (Players go on missions to claim Bounties)
The Global Armchair Treasure Hunt (Hunt for buried tins leading to a treasure)
Custard Quest (Hunt for hidden treasure worth $300)
The Bossall Treasure (Hunt for Golden Lorraine Cross)
The Whistle Pig (Hunt for a hidden key)
Past Armchair Treasure Hunts (solved or unknown status):
Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse
Seek and Ye Shall Find Treasure Hunt
Legendary Treasure Hunts:
Top Ten Armchair Treasure Hunts Summary