Real life treasure hunts around the towns of East Anglia

Go on a virtual puzzle hunt from your own home.

Some folk call these kinds of activity a treasure hunt, puzzle hunt mystery hunt or those with an American influence a scavenger hunt. Whatever you call them, we have created some fun puzzle activities for family team fun both online and in the real world.

Here at ttqevents we specialise in real life treasure hunt puzzles as well as providing various kinds of online digital games and experiences. We have over 50 towns in England covered by our picture puzzle hunt using Google Street View. Discover new places and solve the online puzzle using a clue or more hidden in the photos. Use your detective skills to work out where the images were taken and use Street View to find the missing sign or display. Gather the letters displayed in each image puzzle. When you have collected all the letters from the picture clues rearrange those letters to work out the final answer which will reveal the hiding place of the virtual treasure within the same town.

Each town puzzle hunt should take around 5-10mins to complete. This is a bit of online fun. There is no real buried treasure so please don't go digging up historic parks and rummaging through buildings looking for the hidden treasure! Great for family fun and younger kids can get involved as well as adults and older kids.

We also have a growing range of virtual puzzle hunt ebooks for sale in our "lost treasure" series. Each book contains about twenty to twenty five questions and puzzles which you need to solve. They have been written in such a way that the answer to each question can be found online. So there is no requirement to visit the particular town or city. Work together as a family team or with friends online to look for clues and solve the answer to each question. Share the research between each player and pool your ideas. This is a great way to discover a new place in Britain or revisit an old familiar place with a fun purpose.

Each puzzle is delivered as a printable PDF which contains the questions and everything inside the PDF will act as a clue to aid your research.

Each year we also create and publish treasure hunt puzzles which can only be solved by visiting a particular town or city. We write each question so that the answer can, in most cases, only be found by some in-depth research and a physical visit as the answer is not always easily found using online resources. The visit can be made solo or again as a team with family and friends. We offer a real prize for these kind of treasure hunt competitions with participants invited to submit their final answer. We put all those who have submitted the correct answer into a virtual hat and randomly select an entry with the prize going to the person or team submitting the first correct answer. Once again we have to repeat that there is no real buried treasure and there is no requirement to go digging with spades!

We hope you enjoy our range of puzzle hunt activities.

Have fun.

A virtual treasure hunt through the art galleries of the world.
A virtual treasure hunt through the art galleries of the world.

Old Masters - a virtual treasure hunt through the art galleries of the world.

Find the great works of art from seven famous and lesser known artists using clues in the image details and descriptions. The answer to each question will lead to a challenging meta-puzzle.

Discover the location of the final art treasure.

No prizes for this - but a rewarding journey through some great works of art finding some hidden detail in plain view.

PDF version just £2.49

Look for clues in works by:

  • John Constable
  • David Wilkie
  • Bruegel the Elder
  • JMW Turner
  • Sophie Gengembre Anderson
  • Thomas Gainsborough
  • David Caspar Friedrich

An example question - on the left is a 200 x 200px detail taken from a work by Bruegel the Elder. Where are they heading?

Helpful hints


Just because you have never visited these locations before it doesn't mean you will be massively disadvantaged.

The puzzles have been crafted in such a way that visitors have as much chance as long term residents.

Any treasure hunter with observational skills and lateral thinking can take part and have fun.

Purchase


Released April 2020

Braintree's Lost Treasure

A virtual treasure hunt which can be solved from home.

PDF e-book - just £4.49 via Paypal

Braintree's Lost Treasure: A virtual treasure hunt around Braintree in Essex.

Released April 2020

Lichfield's Lost Treasure

A virtual treasure hunt which can be solved from home.

PDF e-book - just £4.49 from Paypal

Lichfield's Lost Treasure: A virtual treasure hunt around Lichfield in Staffordshire.

Released April 2020

Lincoln's Lost Treasure

A virtual treasure hunt which can be solved from home.

PDF e-book - just £4.49 via Paypal

Lincolns's Lost Treasure: A virtual treasure hunt around Lincoln in Lincolnshire

All year round

Gamenwáð Volume One: A series of mini treasure hunts around England.

Ninety mini treasure hunts; one a day for the next three months. Puzzles to stimulate the brain taking the reader on a journey of discovery and mystery around England.

PDF e-book - just £3.49 from Amazon

Gamenwáð Volume One: A series of mini treasure hunts around England.

All year round

Gamenwáð Volume Two: A series of mini treasure hunts around England.

Ninety mini treasure hunts; one a day for the next three months. Puzzles to stimulate the brain taking the reader on a journey of discovery and mystery around England.

PDF e-book - just £3.49 from Amazon

Gamenwáð Volume Two: A series of mini treasure hunts around England..

January 2020

A virtual treasure hunt which takes players through the art galleries of the world.

PDF e-book - just £4.49

A virtual treasure hunt through the art galleries of the world.

May 2019

Constable Country treasure quest has now closed but you can still purchase a Book of Clues for fun.

PDF version. Reduced from £25 to £4.49.

A multi-location treasure quest along the Stour Valley.

A multi-location treasure hunt puzzle along the Stour Valley

February 2019

The treasure quest in Norwich, Norfolk has now closed but you can still purchase a Book of Clues for fun.

PDF version. Reduced from £25 to £5.

An city based treasure hunt puzzle

December 2018

The Bury St Edmunds prize Quest has now closed but you can still purchase a Book of Clues for fun.

A treasure quest in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - PDF version. Reduced from £25 to £5.

Real life treasure hunts around the towns of East Anglia

December 2018

The Colchester prize Quest has now closed but you can still purchase a Book of Clues for fun.

A treasure quest in Colchester - PDF version. Reduced from £25 to £5.

Real life treasure hunts around the towns of East Anglia

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