Nottingham Treasure & Scavenger Hunts
Urban adventures bringing the secrets of Nottingham to life.
- Work together to solve fun challenges & puzzling clues
- Guided by clues sent to your phones
- Explore Nottingham's historic landmarks and hidden gems
- Discover top-rated pubs, bars and cafes
- Compete for top spot on the Nottingham leaderboard
Next Steps
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- 1. Select your game, pick a trail of your choice and receive your welcome email.
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- 2. Rally your team and enter a team name and phone number(s) into the system.
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- 3. Receive your welcome text, then head to the start location on a day and time of your choice.
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- 4. Text START to receive the first in a series of cryptic directions. Solve the puzzles to unravel your mystery.
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- 5. Discover unique places, the secret and hidden of your city - and great independant pubs/cafes!
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CityDays Nottingham Hunts
Each hunt explores a different area of city in one of two ways. Our classic treasure hunts & scavenger hunts use puzzle-filled directions to guide players to exciting new sights. Our Story trails do all this with the added bonus of an immersive story on top - play the main character and relive a tale from the city's past or experience a story all your own.
Action-packed Treasure Hunts & Scavenger Hunts in Nottingham
How the Nottingham days out work
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Discover Nottingham's secret places
- Experience Nottingham's unique places and share stories in independent pubs & cafes, curated for each Nottingham Treasure Hunt / Scavenger Hunt.
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Fun challenges
- Engaging puzzles and captivating stories reveal Nottingham in a new light.
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Play together or competitively
- Work as a team or compete head-to-head to set the fastest time on our Nottingham leaderboard.
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Fully flexible bookings
- Alter your booking freely; change the date, time, number of people or chosen Nottingham Treasure Hunt / Scavenger Hunt. Even stop and start once you've begun.
Discover, Play and See More on Your Nottingham Treasure Hunt
Your urban odyssey starts here!
Go beyond the well-known tales of daring and unforgiving tax rates and discover Nottingham’s hidden side, where the legacy of lace, legends and lost secrets prevail…
And that’s only the beginning. For centuries, curious minds have tried to unravel the truth about Nottingham’s history and heroes - now it’s your turn!
Our Nottingham treasure hunt gives you the chance to explore your way. Here’s how…
Get The Most Out of Your Treasure Hunt in Nottingham
Our Nottingham treasure hunt transforms you and your friends, family, colleagues or whoever into detectives, explorers and tour guides all at the same time.
It’s your job to uncover Nottingham’s hidden tunnel - no, really! - and venture beyond its iconic landmarks to discover urban secrets.
You answer the clues, you discover the secret sights and hidden gems, and it’s your team that competes for top spot on our leaderboard.
We’ve worked hard to make sure there’s something for everyone who plays our Nottingham treasure hunt. So if it’s history, Greek mythology, pubs, cosy cafes, weird geographical quirks or just fascinating facts you’re after - know that you’ll find it with CityDays!
The Best Treasure Hunt in Nottingham
Our Nottingham scavenger hunt is designed to show you the good stuff, cut out the boring stuff, and get you interacting with your surroundings.
How do we do that?
Well, we put the activity back in your hands. We curate our trails so they take you around a city’s most interesting streets, landmarks, and history, and introduce you to its famous figures. The only catch is - it’s up to you to solve our puzzles, riddles and clues to take you from each one to the next!
Look up, look down, look left, look right!
We don’t support littering, so we haven’t left any physical objects anywhere for you to find.
Instead, we’ve made use of existing buildings, curious city quirks, sculptures, pieces of street art and even street furniture as clues.
Think of the treasure in our Nottingham treasure hunt as a quest for golden nuggets of information. The only physical objects you’ll take away from our Nottingham treasure hunts are photos (please do send them in, we love to see them!), so you don’t have to worry about carrying anything around with you other than your phone.
We find this is much the best way to ensure that our clues stay put (we don’t want anyone ruining it for the next group of adventurers!) while also allowing you to learn about Nottingham.
Still a bit confused? Here’s how it works.
Treasure Hunt Nottingham: Uncover Nottingham’s Hidden History
From Robin Hood’s noble acts of heroism to Nottingham Castle’s noble roots, Nottingham is packed with undiscovered treasures that you’ve probably never spared a glance.
On this Nottingham treasure hunt, you’ll journey through a mysterious 19th century tunnel beneath a former hunting ground and find yourself whizzing through an urban time machine that exposes the city centre like you’ve never seen it before.
All you have to do is crack our puzzles, riddles and clues to take you there.
See More Nottingham Hidden Gems
Our Nottingham treasure hunt is a best-of-both-worlds scenario. Of course you’ll get to see legendary landmarks such as Nottingham Castle, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem and Nottingham Arboretum - but we’ll also introduce you to a few…less obvious gems.
Armed with nothing but a phone and the power of your minds, you’ll be introduced to some of Nottingham’s formative and famous figures, such as lions with Greek mythology links, literary legends and a royal refugee.
You’ll also get the chance to find out the location of a secret booze bunker from the Second World War and see where a public execution became deadly for the crowd…
Available Trails and Nottingham Treasure and Scavenger Hunts
Interested in finding out more about the kinds of self-guided Nottingham treasure and scavenger hunts we provide? Here’s where you get a tiny sneak peek into where you can find your next adventure…
Tunnel to The Unknown
Embark on a thrilling, riddle-filled treasure hunt across Nottingham, exploring a mysterious 19th-century tunnel, hidden city sights, and historical wonders.
Solve intriguing puzzles, uncover sinister stories, and visit iconic landmarks like Old Market Square and the city's famous castle. This unique, interactive treasure hunt is perfect for escape room enthusiasts, history buffs, and anyone with a passion for discovering unknown treasures, complete with stops at traditional pubs and cafes.
Fun activity for all groups
Nottingham Treasure Hunt / Scavenger Hunt Reviews
The great things our customers have to say about CityDays Treasure Hunts & Scavenger Hunts
Solar Flares
Great day out with friends with a bit of education thrown in.
The killer catchers
My mum and I had a great experience, we came to Sheffield on a weekend getaway to do this murder mystery experience and…
The Greenwich Wanderers
We both loved it - a fantastic hunt around Greenwich taking in all the sights.
Nicola Benstead
It was fun but maybe could have been a tad longer maybe another 5 clues
Eurovision
Fantastic! A great blend of straight forward clues that guided us around plenty of hidden treasures away from the touri…
Verbs
This was a great way to see the city.
Good Lookers
Great day out exploring Greenwich reeking of history with its cobblestone paths and alleys, statues, magnificent views…
M&M
Great way to explore the City and make lots interesting discoveries along the way. The clues were cryptic enough to kee…
Esta and Lou
We had the best day. We loved the hidden gems and sites. It was brilliant to do the city tour on a Saturday as it’s so …
charootery
amazing adventure. better than i was expecting
Fox and Badger
A great day out for the family.
Froot Loop Soop (Jorkin the peanits)
There was no storyline but it was just as fun as if there had been. We learned lots of interesting things about the cit…
Country tweed
It was a very enjoyable thing to do with teenagers and fantastic seeing parts of London you would otherwise not get to …
Birthday Bec
A really informative and fun treasure hunt, taking in lots of interesting sites. Unfortunately part of the route was bl…
Nicolas Cage Superfans
Very Good
MaccyD's
Great day, the 4 of us had a fabulous time trying to solve the clues and seeing the sights of London along the way!
Horst Baby Stag
Really good fun and an interesting way to explore an unfamiliar city. Would absolutely recommend and hope to do more in…
Prosecco Prinnys
Absolutely loved it!
Rags to Riches
We really enjoyed it and can’t wait to do another one
Ninjas
Fantastic adventure, we really loved it and saw parts of London we would never have known were there. Clues were fun an…
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