Around the World
Our number of free online treasure hunts are growing and will be spread around the world.
Choose one local to you or one from far away lands - your choice!
If you don't see a place you want, you can vote for it to be added to our online treasure hunts collection in the near future.
If you want to have a specific treasure hunt included quickly, you can pay to have it added. Optionally, we'll add it just for you and those you choose to share it with.
Fun, Rhyming Clues
The clues for our free online treasure hunts are all fun - they all rhyme too!
Some are straightforward and easy to find the answers too. Others are a little more cryptic and require a bit more thought.
But every time you get one right, you'll get a great feeling of satisfaction! Get all the clues right and you'll get a great buzz and a confetti ending!
And you can do it on your own or challenge others to beat your score!
Street View
With Google Street View, you'll easily move around each of our free online treasure hunt locations of your choice. You can zoom in and out of the local views.
Our Treasure Hunts all allow you complete control over your position within the hunt. Simply click on a a direction element to go straight to that position.
Join the Fun
Click "Start Now" to tackle an existing location. It's free!
Have an idea for the next location to be added? Click "Vote".
Want to sponsor a location and get your name and (if you want) a link to your own site on its page? Click "Sponsor a Location".
Fancy having your own location added without voting even sooner? Click "Buy a New Location".
Free Online Treasure Hunts - Why Old Fashioned?
In the UK in the 1950s and 1960s, many treasure hunts involved friends and families finding the answers to often cryptic clues with their answers spread around a course designed by the treasure hunt author.
The best of these were spread over a large local area that the participants used their personal vehicles to drive around. The clues were presented in order between the directions (where to turn etc.) that enabled each vehicle to travel across the whole course.
At the end of the course, everyone met up for a fun evening - usually in a private room at a pub. There, after a great meal, undoubtedly accompanied by significant amount of alcohol, the people would swap their answer sheets with other teams. Then the author would read out the answers and explanations and the teams would score one another. And the winner would probably go home with a trophy of some kind.
A Personal View
This author was a young child in those times. But he remembers these treasure hunts with great fondness. Particularly as his father was the best treasure hunt creator in his locality - and probably well, beyond! That's not just this author talking. His father was paid by local organisations on a regular basis to devise new treasure hunts.
As traffic grew, these kind of events started to need police approval. And as traffic grew more, they had to be phased out. Participant cars needed to drive slowly to be able to look for possible answers. And that was just too dangerous.
It still is too dangerous. But Google's Street View has enabled us to create free online treasure hunts that use exactly the same approach. No danger involved!
We hope you enjoy our offering here!!!
Why Two Poached Eggs?
Simple. It's the author's favourite breakfast choice.
Disclaimer
Google is constantly updating Street View. This means that, from time to time, some answers to our clues disappear or change from when we created them.
We regularly check all of our online treasure hunts free or not, to help keep them up to date. But we welcome your help with that. If you think you've found a clue that has no answer - or the wrong answer - please do let us know using this form. If we agree with you, we will either update or change the clue and answer. If we disagree, we'll let you know and invite you to try again.
A Street View Idiosyncracy
Google's Street View doesn't always use photography taken at the same time within its displays. For example, it is possible that looking ahead and to the right from a position you see a building or structure that was there when the Google camera took the image that you are viewing. But as you pass that building or structure, if you turn 90 degrees to view it straight on, it disappears. If that happens, it's because the image Google shows you in that position and at that angle may have been taken a year or two earlier.
How do we handle that? When we create our free online treasure hunt clues, we try only to use views that appear to us to be the most up to date or easiest to see. So be sure to try looking for the answers at different angles if you are unable to work out a particular answer. It will increase your chances of finding the answers to all of the clues.