From a map you build to a treasure you keep.
Every hunt has two sides: the creator who designs it, and the player who walks it. Both follow short, clear flows.
Three steps to extract.
Join a hunt, prove you stood at each waypoint, then exit through an extraction to lock your rewards in for good.
Join a hunt
Find a live hunt on the map and tap to join. If it has a participant cap, you'll be slotted into a FIFO queue and admitted as soon as someone extracts.
Reach each waypoint
Navigate to the waypoint in the real world and step inside its 15 m geofence. Verify with a QR scan, NFC tap, BLE beacon — or a selfie reviewed by the creator if the markers won't cooperate.
Collect, then extract
Each completed waypoint can give you one treasure for your 10-slot virtual backpack. Reach an extraction waypoint and complete it before time runs out to keep everything you've collected.
Four steps to publish.
The planning wizard walks you through every decision — map, waypoints, markers, treasures — and won't let you publish until the map validates.
Design the map
Name your hunt, pick a structure — Breadcrumb, Constellation or Delta — and set the time rules: open-ended with an extraction buffer, or event-based with a hard end date.
Place the waypoints
Drop Start, Path and Extraction waypoints on Google Maps. Choose a verification method per waypoint: geofence only, or geofence plus a progress marker scan.
Assign markers & treasures
Pick QR, NFC or BLE markers from your Progress Marker Vault and place them within 5 m of each waypoint. Hook up treasures from your Treasure Vault — one per waypoint, per session, per player.
Test, then release
Walk through your own hunt in a test session to validate the experience. When it's right, advance it to the Release Phase and let players join.
Three ways to prove "I was here".
A waypoint can be verified by location alone, by a physical marker you scan, or by a selfie reviewed by the creator if all else fails.
QR code
Print and stick. The player scans with the device camera — torch toggle built in for dim spots.
NFC tag
Tap to read. The app suppresses Android's default tag handler so the scan happens cleanly inside Treasure Hunt.
BLE beacon
Battery-powered and ambient. The app picks it up by MAC address whenever the player is in range.
Selfie verification is always available as a fallback, reviewed manually by the creator.