Riddle
Photo riddles
"Recognise this corner?" Upload a photo of your own and they type where it was taken.
Why it works
A gift takes ten seconds to open. Unlocking one takes the afternoon.
The problem isn't the gift, it's the handover: it's over the moment the paper tears. The tickets, the voucher, the keys — shown, thanked for, put away.
A hunt puts an hour of walking, clues and your own memories in front of it. The gift is exactly the same; what changes is that there's now a story about how it reached them.
The gift is the ending, not the opening
You hide it behind the last step. Until they solve it, they have no idea what you bought.
The clues come from your history
Every step leans on something only the two of you would get. Nobody else could have built that route.
It walks them to the handover
GPS steps only open on arrival, so you can steer them to where you've set things up without them guessing where they're going.
In three steps
How to wrap a gift in a scavenger hunt
Half an hour of your time, plus the gift you'd already bought.
Decide where it ends
The gift is the final screen: the tickets, the trip, a photo of a set of keys. Everything else gets written backwards from there.
Write the clues along the way
Five to seven steps, each built on a memory of yours: a photo, a place, a date only they would know.
Hand over the link, not the envelope
Over WhatsApp, or print the QR and tuck it into the birthday card. Once it's open they won't stop until they see what's at the end.
Full example
A seven-step hunt that ends in two concert tickets
This is what her friends built for Martha's 30th before handing the gift over. Copy it and swap in your own details.
- VideoStep 1
Your gift isn't wrapped this year
Twenty seconds recorded the night before. There's something for her, but she's going to have to go and find it.
- RiddleStep 2
Where it all started
"Type the name of the bar where we met in 2014." The answer is checked on the server, so there's no skipping it by reading the page source.
- GPSStep 3
This far on your own
The step won't unlock until she reaches the park they grew up in. Her friends are waiting there with the next clue.
- TriviaStep 4
How well do we know you?
Three questions, four options each. Wrong answers just try again — nobody loses here.
- AudioStep 5
A message she wasn't expecting
Her brother's voice, recorded in Berlin because he couldn't fly over. One take, no script. This is the step that makes people cry.
- CodeStep 6
Four digits and an envelope
"The code is the date of the first photo we ever took together." The envelope has been on the living room table all afternoon and she never noticed.
- ShakeStep 7
Shake your phone
The last thing she does before the screen shows her what's inside the envelope.
- Final screen
We're going to see Arctic Monkeys
Two tickets for Saturday. They're inside the envelope you've been walking past all afternoon.
Idea bank
Step ideas for the road to the gift
There are 13 step types and they mix freely. These are the ones that build the wait before the handover.
GPS
Walk them to the handover
The step opens only on the exact spot. It's how you steer them to wherever you've set things up.
Video
Recorded birthday messages
Collect the clips people send you on WhatsApp and spread them across the steps along the way.
Code
The code that opens the envelope
A figure only they could know: a date, a street number, an old shirt number. Without it the gift never appears.
Puzzle
A photo in pieces
One of your photos they have to reassemble on screen before the next clue shows.
Shake
The unwrapping gesture
The final step, right before what you bought appears. It stretches the moment better than any countdown.
Variants
Depending on what you bought
A trip or a weekend away
The route ends with the destination and the dates on screen. Better still if the suitcase is already packed and hidden.
Concert or match tickets
The last step unlocks the date and the seat. Works well with a short route, an hour at most.
A gift hidden at home
Nobody leaves the house: the clues run through the rooms and the last one says what the box is under.
A long-distance gift
No GPS steps. You send the link, they solve the route from home, and the final screen tells them what's arriving by post tomorrow.
Reviews
What users are saying
I set it up for my boyfriend's birthday with 8 steps through the places where we've shared memories. It took me an afternoon, and he still talks about it. The GPS step that took him to the restaurant of our first date was the perfect ending.
I'm not great with technology but my daughter helped me set it up to surprise my wife on our 25th anniversary. Easier than I thought. She was very moved. I don't usually write reviews but this deserves it.
I'm a teacher and used it to create an end-of-year treasure hunt. The 5th graders spent the whole morning engaged solving clues around the school. The step where they had to shake the phone to "break the lock" was absolute chaos, in the best sense. The following week three parents asked me how it was done so they could do it at home.
Public or private. That is the whole decision.
The mechanism is identical in both: the same challenges, the same steps, the same ending. The only thing that changes is who can reach your adventure.
Identical in both
- All 13 instruments, none held back
- Unlimited steps, no expiry
- You write the ending: letter, photo or video
- Link and QR ready the moment you publish
The only thing that changes
Public
FREE
no cost · no expiry
Anyone can find it
It goes up on Explore and anyone can play it. Good if what you want is to be discovered.
- It goes up on Explore, so people find you
- Classic and pirate themes
Private
$9.99
one-time · per challenge
Only whoever has your link
It appears in no listing and no search engine. If you have not sent them the link, it does not exist for them.
- Schedule the exact date and time it opens
- Optional password, if you want another door
- Cyberpunk and romantic themes, plus the usual two
No subscription · no card to start
For a gift you want the private one: what's at the end is meant for one person, and there's no reason for it to sit in a public catalogue.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
No. The hunt opens in the phone's browser from the link or the QR code. Whoever plays it needs no account and no download.
Got the gift already?
Then what's left is how you hand it over. Half an hour and the route around it is built.
Free · No card · Nothing to install