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The 15 Best Treasure Hunts in the UK

26 tours  ·  from $9 a head

Market towns, dockside lanes and a few genuinely difficult city trails. These 15 start whenever you turn up, take two to three hours and work with almost any group size.

Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Manchester with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Castlefield Urban Heritage Park: history with room to pause
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Manchester with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

1.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Manchester with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 253 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $20Our pick

Join Captain Bess on a private, self-guided Manchester treasure hunt from Piccadilly Station. Use your phone to follow maps, solve clues, request hints, and uncover stories at St Peter’s Square, Castlefield, St John’s Gardens, John Rylands Library, and Chinatown.

“Loved recommendation for the pub and lovely way to see the city without clues being too hard. Only issue was at clue 13 there was scaffolding on the library which meant we were unable to see the answer. Also roadworks meant we crossed at a different point impacting on clue 14.”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around York with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Bootham Bar and York’s old city edge
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around York with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

2.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around York with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 248 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $20

Captain Bess guides your private group around York by smartphone, sending maps, cryptic clues, hints, facts, and stories. Start when you like, follow a route through Museum Gardens, York Minster, the Shambles, and more, then pause for food or drinks along the way.

“The Treasure Hunt was good fun but we should have started earlier. Tip to others would be to make sure you have plenty of time as clues are quite tricky!”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Bath with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Pulteney Bridge and Bath’s famous curve
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Bath with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

3.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Bath with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 208 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $20

Captain Bess guides your private group by phone around Bath, from Bath Abbey and Pulteney Bridge to the Roman Baths. Solve cryptic clues, follow digital maps, ask for hints, and pause for shops or drinks. The English-language hunt lasts about 2.5 hours, costs $20.83 per person, and needs no app or printed tickets.

“No SMS received PDF could not be access Help Centre did not respond Waste of time & money Highly disappointing”

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York Treasure Hunt Adventure: The Mystery of The Gunpowder Snitch

4.York Treasure Hunt Adventure: The Mystery of The Gunpowder Snitch

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 203 reviews · 3 hours (approx.)

Use a 40-page English Mystery Guide™ to solve 16 cryptic clues across central York. This private, self-guided walk takes about three hours, begins at Shared Earth near Minster Gates, visits five major sights, and returns to the starting point.

“Highly recommend doing this. Fun looking for clues, then trying to decipher them. You can take your time as it's self guided & if you cannot work out a clue there are useful hints on the back of the booklet. A great way to see places & discover the history.”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Oxford with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Finding the Radcliffe Camera
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Oxford with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

5.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Oxford with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 202 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $20

Follow Captain Bess on a phone-based treasure hunt through Oxford, from Oxford Castle to Carfax Tower. Solve cryptic clues, request hints, pause for food or pubs, and learn city stories at your own pace. The private, self-guided route lasts about two and a half hours.

“Quite boring!!! Clues are confusing until the very last one…and you need to get to the last one, believe me. Tour isn’t that interesting, historical spots are not so interesting or the best. Anyway, if I could ask my money back, I would.”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Birmingham with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Birmingham Town Hall and the first clues
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Birmingham with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

6.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Birmingham with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 167 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $20

Captain Bess, a snarky pirate, leads your private group through Birmingham by mobile web link. Solve cryptic clues at Birmingham Town Hall, Centenary Square, the Library of Birmingham, the Jewellery Quarter, and St. Paul’s Church. You walk about 2½ miles at your own pace, with hints when needed.

“We spent a thoroughly enjoyable day exploring Birmingham while doing this treasure hunt. A great way to see the city and parts of it that we would otherwise have missed. This is about the 5th one of these types of hunts that we've done and there will be more! Highly recommended!”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Chester with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Walking the Chester City Walls
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Chester with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

7.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Chester with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 162 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $20

Captain Bess guides you by phone from Chester Town Hall Square through the cathedral, city walls, Roman sites, Grosvenor Park, the River Dee, Storyhouse, and Chester Rows. Solve cryptic clues, ask for hints, stop for lunch, and finish in about two hours or spread the hunt across several days.

“The technology worked pretty well throughout the hunt, although right at the end it stopped working for all of us - frustrating. The route was well chosen and interesting but we thought some of the clues were too hard, children got frustrated”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Brighton with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Starting at India Gate and finding your rhythm
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Brighton with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

8.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Brighton with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 154 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $20

Captain Bess guides your private group by phone through Brighton, sending maps, clues, facts, and hints as you walk from the Royal Pavilion through North Laine, the piers, Theatre Royal, and The Lanes. Start when you like, pause for shops or pubs, and finish at India Gate.

“Good value and easy to book. Some of the clues were very difficult to solve without the hints, particularly in a small group of only two people. I think a group of 3-6 people may be better. Some of the locations on the tour were also rather obscure and not the tourist spots I was expecting to see! This perhaps suits someone who knows Brighton well already and wants to see some of the less well-known things”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Cambridge with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Senate House, Great St Mary’s, and the Market Square
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Cambridge with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

9.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Cambridge with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 142 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $20

Follow Captain Bess through Cambridge on a private, phone-based treasure hunt lasting about 2.5 hours. Solve cryptic clues, use maps, and explore King’s College Chapel, Trinity College, the Backs, the Corpus Clock, and more. Start anytime between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

“Great fun. Did in an extended family group aged 24-75 which worked really well. Took it in turns to read the info in a pirate accent which was fun. Most of us are from Cambridge and we still learnt a thing or too! Very well put together.”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Liverpool with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - From the cathedral to Royal Albert Dock
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Liverpool with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

10.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Liverpool with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 141 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $20

Captain Bess guides your private group by phone through a 3.5-mile Liverpool route linking the cathedral, docks, Mathew Street, Bold Street, and the Three Graces. You solve cryptic clues, request hints, and start when convenient, with no app or printed map required.

“Great fun. Good way to explore a city. Allow yourself a full day, so that you can visit all the places en route, and get a bite to eat.”

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Stratford Treasure Hunt The Mystery of Shakespeare's Lucky Quill - Royal Shakespeare Theatre: the modern stage in the mystery
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Stratford Treasure Hunt The Mystery of Shakespeare’s Lucky Quill

11.Stratford Treasure Hunt The Mystery of Shakespeare’s Lucky Quill

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 115 reviews · 3 hours (approx.)

Follow a 3.25-kilometre self-guided mystery through Stratford-upon-Avon with an English activity booklet, 18 cryptic clues, maps, local stories, and a Shakespeare-themed plot. You will visit major sights, historic streets, and atmospheric taverns, working privately with your own group.

“Really enjoyed doing our Stratford Upon Avon Mystery Tour. Never ever done anything like this before but so glad we completed it. Great way of seeing all the major highlights of Stratford especially as it was our first visit here. We chose to complete the tour without stopping off as weather was cold and rain expected anytime so we plodded on and did it in exactly 3hours. We are a couple in our late 60's early 70's and didn't find it too arduous inspite of arthritic knees! Great fun overall and would certainly look to do one in another city. We live in Liverpool and fancy doing that tour next.”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Bristol with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Castle Park sets the hunt in motion
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Bristol with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

12.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Bristol with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 101 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $20

Follow Captain Bess through central Bristol on a private, phone-based treasure hunt. Solve clues at Castle Park, St Nicholas Market, Bristol Cathedral, Queen Square, and Bristol Old Vic, with hints, stories, and the freedom to pause for shops or a pub.

“What a lovely way to see and learn about this area of Bristol. Great clues and lots of titbits of info. Been to Bristol many times, but still learnt more about it.”

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Nottingham Treasure Hunt Adventure - Robin Hood's Secret Stash - Key points at a glance
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Nottingham Treasure Hunt Adventure – Robin Hood’s Secret Stash

13.Nottingham Treasure Hunt Adventure – Robin Hood’s Secret Stash

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 99 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $0

Use the 40-page Mystery Guide™ to solve 16 cryptic clues around central Nottingham. Follow Robin Hood’s trail from the castle to St Nicholas Church Gardens, learn local stories, and reveal the villain at your own pace. The route covers 3.5km and takes about three hours.

“Absolutely brilliant. Purchased as a gift for my partner. He was amazed at how much more he had to learn about the city he grew up in. I was a newbie so everything was exciting and new. The clues were cleverly set really making you think out of the box but not too challenging that you gave up. We made a day of it enjoying stops for coffee and lunch. We hardly noticed the weather as we were engrossed trying to solve the clues. Pleased to say we succeeded without cheating. Can’t wait to visit other cities and take part in more treasure hunts. Highly recommend this activity. We were…”

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London: Food Treasure Hunt and Walking Tour - How the WhatsApp puzzle changes the walk
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London: Food Treasure Hunt and Walking Tour

14.Food Treasure Hunt and Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 92 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $69

You’ll follow Sir Francis Drake’s mission along the Thames, solving WhatsApp riddles and finding food stops on a self-guided route. Meet at the Founder's Arms for a three-course British meal, pub lunch, sweets, and London stories. Bring a charged phone with data.

“So much fun! Not too hard…we all had fun with the clues. Enjoyed each of our stops and the learned a lot of London history. Do it! You won’t regret it!”

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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Newcastle with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems - Grey’s Monument and the first city-center clues
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Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Newcastle with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

15.Fun, Flexible Treasure Hunt Around Newcastle with Cryptic Clues & Hidden Gems

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 78 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $20

Follow Captain Bess around Newcastle from Grey’s Monument to the Tyne Bridge, Black Gate, Cathedral, and Grey Street. Your phone delivers maps, clues, hints, facts, and pirate-style banter. One purchase covers up to six phones, and you can pause for shops, pubs, or photos.

“Despite calling in advance and specifically enquiring about the enjoyability for non native speakers we were surprised to find that the experience was not a good match for 5 adults who all speak English for their profession on a daily basis. The tour is presented in pirate slang which does not translate well. We'd like to suggest to have a regular english language option next to the current option so that foreign tourist will be able to enjoy this tour too.”

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