Create a private Hunt for your group, event, team or to publish.
Build custom hunts for groups, events, teams, trainings, pubcrawls, scavenger hunts, and more. Add routes, checkpoints, clues,instructions, QR scans, and challenges your players can experience through TheHunt app.
Invite friends, employees, students, guests, customers, orcommunity members. Players can join in teams of up to ten, with multiple teamsavailable for larger events. Get Creator Access directly in The Hunt app from the AppStore.
From pub crawls to training routes, make it your own.
Create a custom Hunt for your group and keep it private. Add locations, clues, QR checkpoints, questions, instructions, images, audio, and team-based participation, then invite only the people you choose. Need a bigger group? Purchase additional player packs and expand your private invite list. Your Hunt stays out of public discovery unless you choose to submit it for possible publication in The Hunt app.
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Pub crawls and Private Hunts
Birthdays, bachelor and bachelorette groups, family outings, friend groups, date nights, neighborhood challenges, or just a different way to get everyone together.
Team and company experiences
Team-building, onboarding, employee training, safety walkthroughs, sales exercises, department challenges, conferences, retreats, and internal events.
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Campus and community events
Orientation, student organizations, alumni events, fundraisers, downtown events, nonprofit activities, tourism routes, local festivals, and community challenges.
Build it from a simple creator dashboard.
Creator Access gives you a highly flexible, intuitive backend where you can create the structure of your Hunt from our prepared templates or build from scratch. Keep it simple with a route and location checkins, or add clues, questions, challenges, team competition, story moments, or even augmented reality elements.
1. Choose the type of Hunt: Start with your purpose: party, pub crawl, training, team-building, campus event, fundraiser, scavenger hunt, or custom experience.
2. Add your stops: Choose the places, rooms, businesses, stations, landmarks, or checkpoints your players will visit.
3. Write the experience: Add clues, prompts, questions, instructions, riddles, tasks, story moments, or training content.
4. Set up checkpoints: Use QR scans, location only info or simple Q&A interactions to confirm progress and unlock the next step.
5. Publish, invite, and see it come to life: Share your Hunt privately with your group, launch teams through the app, and watch your idea turn into a real-world experience. Created something you think everyone should play? Submit it for possible publication in The Hunt app.
Ready to create your own Hunt?
Bring your group, route, event, training, crawl, challenge, or idea into The Hunt. And if you are interested in building content for publishing to the public Hunt catalog, we would love to see your work! Just download the Hunt app from the App Store to get started.
Questions
Everything you need to know about building and running your own Hunt.
Creator Mode is built right into The Hunt app. Once you unlock Creator Access, you can create or customize a Hunt from your phone — no separate web panel required. Start with a template or build from scratch, then add your title, description, category, cover image, locations, steps, clues, QR checkpoints, questions, puzzles, decision points, discovery content, images, audio, and more. When you’re ready, publish privately and share your join code with your group.
Almost anything that benefits from moving people through real locations. Create a birthday Hunt, pub crawl, bachelorette route, campus orientation, team-building challenge, employee training, fundraiser, local tour, family event, private party, or fully story-driven Hunt. Keep it simple with check-ins and directions, or make it more creative with clues, puzzles, questions, images, audio, branching decisions, and QR checkpoints.
No. Creator Mode is designed to be no-code and easy to use. You choose the locations, add the steps, write the prompts, and decide how players move through the experience. The Hunt app handles the structure, navigation, team play, checkpoints, join codes, and player flow.
Yes. Your custom Hunt can stay private and only be available to the people you invite. Your locations, clues, images, instructions, and content are not shown publicly unless you choose to submit the Hunt for possible publication in The Hunt app. This makes Creator Mode useful for private events, company trainings, campus groups, internal activities, and personal celebrations.
When your Hunt is ready, the app generates a join code you can share with your group. Players download The Hunt app, enter the code, and join your Hunt. You can keep the experience limited to your invited players, and additional player packs are available if you want to invite more people.
Yes. Players can participate solo or as a team. Creator Hunts can support teams of up to ten players, and larger experiences can include multiple teams. That makes it useful for parties, pub crawls, trainings, campus events, fundraisers, company activities, and larger group competitions.
Yes. You can choose real-world locations yourself, use your current location, search for a place, drop a pin on the map, or select from available locations in the app. You can build around restaurants, bars, shops, parks, offices, classrooms, event stations, campus buildings, downtown stops, or any place your group can safely and appropriately visit.
Yes. When available, you can include Official Hunt Sponsor Locations in your Hunt. Sponsor stops may include exclusive Hunt offers, welcome messages, or redemption instructions that players unlock when they arrive or scan a QR checkpoint.
Creator Mode gives you several ways to control progress. A stop can be arrival-only, QR scan-based, question-based, or simply used to give directions and instructions. You can ask players to answer a question, scan a code, read a clue, follow directions, or unlock discovery content when they reach a location.
Yes. You can add questions with accepted answers, allow close-enough matching, write wrong-answer messages, create puzzle steps, add decision points, and build branching paths between stops. A Hunt can be linear and simple, or it can split into different routes and rejoin later.
Yes. Creator Mode supports rich content so your Hunt can feel more polished and personal. Add cover images, discovery images, step images, audio, narration-style content, instructions, and other media that help bring your route or activity to life.
Creator Access is $9.99/month and includes up to 5 player invitations. Additional player packs are available in the app when you want to invite more people.
Yes. Most Creator Hunts are private, but if you create something polished, fun, well-structured, and a good fit for The Hunt audience, you can submit it for possible publication in The Hunt app. Published Hunts are reviewed by The Hunt team and are not automatically accepted. If we think your Hunt could be a strong fit for public release, we’ll talk with you about next steps, edits, publishing approval, and any potential creator compensation or royalty arrangement before it goes live.
Possibly. If The Hunt chooses to publish your Hunt for public play, we may negotiate a creator agreement that includes royalties, revenue share, flat fees, or another payment structure based on the type of Hunt, audience, ownership rights, production needs, and how the Hunt is offered in the app.Private Hunts are generally created for your own group or event. Publicly published Hunts are handled separately and require review, approval, and written agreement with The Hunt.
Yes. We are interested in working with writers, puzzle creators, escape room designers, influencers, local storytellers, tourism creators, educators, brands, entertainers, and IP owners who want to bring great real-world experiences into The Hunt.If you have characters, stories, routes, puzzles, local knowledge, an audience, or a concept you think people would love playing through the app, we’d like to see it. The best published Hunts should feel fun, original, easy to play, and built for people who want something different to do in the real world.
Yes. If you own or control the rights to a story, character, puzzle format, tour concept, event format, brand, or audience-driven idea, you can submit it for consideration. We’ll review whether it fits The Hunt experience and, if there’s a match, discuss how it could be developed, published, promoted, and compensated.Please only submit content you created or have the rights to use.
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