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AI scavenger hunt generator

Describe your idea and AI drafts the whole scavenger hunt, the clues, the route, and the challenges, in minutes. Refine it in the builder, then share one link players open on their phone. No app needed.

Written by Catalin Leca, founder of HedgeHunt. Updated 6 October 2026.

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A scavenger hunt drafted by AI, shown on a phone as a player reads the first clue

From a sentence to a finished scavenger hunt

Three steps. The AI writes the first draft, you make it yours.

Describe your scavenger hunt

Tell the generator who the hunt is for, where it happens, and the vibe you want. A sentence or two is enough.

AI drafts the hunt

The AI scavenger hunt generator writes the clues, drafts a route through real places, and sets up a challenge on every step.

Tweak and share

Rewrite anything in the builder by hand or by chatting in plain language, then share one link. Players open it in their phone browser and start.

What the generator builds for you

Every part of a working scavenger hunt, drafted from your description.

Clues for every stop

Riddles and prompts written around the real places on your route, in the tone you asked for.

A route through real places

The generator suggests real locations and orders them into a draft route. You check the map pins before you share, and the builder reminds you to.

Four challenge types

Each step is a clue, quiz, mission, or task. Missions can ask players to reach a spot, take a photo, record audio, or scan a QR code.

Hints and difficulty

Optional hints that unlock one at a time, point values for the leaderboard, and a few dials on every step.

Discovery facts

Turn on a short did you know that appears after a step is solved, so players learn as they go.

Yours to change

Nothing is locked. Move a stop, rewrite a clue, or ask the AI to rework the whole hunt.

Four prompts we actually ran

We ran these four prompts through HedgeHunt on 6 October 2026 and read every step of what came back. The screenshots are the real first drafts, unedited. We generated and reviewed these hunts; we did not go and walk them. Use the prompts as starting points: swap in your own places and people, then check what comes back before you share it.

What does a good prompt for a kids' birthday hunt in a park look like?

Name the ages, the supervision, the time you have, and a bounded area of the park, then ask for a photo finish. This is the exact prompt we ran, word for word, and what came back.

The prompt

A birthday scavenger hunt for ten kids aged 8 to 10 with two parents supervising, about an hour, eight stops staying inside the area between Heckscher Playground and the Mall, playful rhyming clues, and a group photo mission at the end.

The builder map for Central Park Birthday Trail, showing the drafted route through the park and a location mission at the carousel, with the phone preview beside it

What came back

Eight stops in a walking order that works its way north: a start at Heckscher Playground, then the Carousel, the Dairy, the Mall and the Naumburg Bandshell, finishing with a group photo mission at Bethesda Fountain. The stop texts are rhyming verses, and one stop has the kids write a two-line team cheer and shout it together.

What you will want to change

The finish at Bethesda Fountain is just past the north end of the Mall, a little outside the area the prompt drew, so tell the parents or move the photo to the Bandshell. The carousel quiz can be answered from anywhere and horse is the obvious pick, so swap it for something the kids can only see at the carousel.

Draft this park birthday hunt

How do you prompt an adult city hunt that does not feel childish?

Say nothing childish outright, ask for riddles about the real streets, and give it a finish with a reward, in our case a plaza with bars. Every located stop came back on the real place.

The prompt

An evening scavenger hunt for six adults through the Gothic Quarter, a mix of riddles about the real streets and squares and a couple of photo dares, nothing childish, ending at a plaza where we can get a drink.

The builder editing a written task from Gothic Quarter After Dark, naming two details of the cathedral front, with the AI grading rule and the phone preview beside it

What came back

Nine stops on one short walk: the cathedral, Pont del Bisbe over Carrer del Bisbe, Plaça de Sant Jaume, then down Carrer de Ferran to a finish at Plaça Reial. All three pinned stops sit on the real place. The tone stays adult: one photo dare asks the group to look like they are meeting a contact after dark, and two stops ask for a written sentence about the buildings, graded by AI.

What you will want to change

The finish is a square, not a booked table, so add your actual bar. The bridge quiz can be answered from anywhere, since Carrer del Bisbe is the only Gothic Quarter street among the four choices; swap it for something players have to stand there to see. The cathedral task accepts any plausible Gothic detail, so a player could pass it without looking up.

Draft this city hunt for adults

Can the AI build an indoor hunt, like a library orientation?

Yes, if you describe the stops by what they do rather than expecting it to know the floor plan. It set one GPS pin on the building and described every indoor stop by what it looks like.

The prompt

An orientation scavenger hunt for new students in the Main Library: eight stops like the catalogue computers, the help desk, the quiet floor and the printers, a short quiz question at each stop, reusable so any group can start whenever they arrive.

The builder showing Main Library Orientation Quest, an AI-generated library orientation hunt, on the location mission that sends students to the quiet floor

What came back

We pointed it at the University of Manchester Main Library. It came back with nine stops, one more than we asked for, and described every indoor stop by what it looks like, with stops titled People Who Can Help, Find the Quiet Floor and Spot the Way Out, which is the right call for a building it has no floor plan for. Only three stops are quizzes; the rest are short written answers, a photo of an exit sign and two location checks. It kept the hunt reusable, no dates and no fixed start time.

What you will want to change

Everything campus-specific: it cannot know your floor names, desk names or catalogue branding, so plan ten minutes to swap the generic labels for the real ones. The two location checks share one pin on the university address, and a phone cannot tell one floor from another, so make them photo stops. And in all three quizzes the right answer is the first option; edit them before you release.

Draft this library orientation hunt

How do you prompt a team building hunt for a big group?

State the head count, the team count, and that points should decide the winner. The generator went further than we asked: it switched the hunt to competitive scoring on its own and made the final stops worth more, so a late comeback stays possible.

The prompt

A team building scavenger hunt for thirty colleagues split into five teams, ten stops around the Old Town, a mix of quiz questions and photo missions, points on every step so the leaderboard settles it.

The Player routes panel for Prague Old Town Team Sprint, with Multiple start points selected and the rotated stop order previewed for each start

What came back

Ten real stops walked east to west, from the Powder Tower past the House of the Black Madonna, the Estates Theatre and Old Town Square to the Clementinum, finishing at the Old Town Bridge Tower. Only one stop is a quiz; the rest are location checks, team photos, a written team line and a recorded cheer. Competitive scoring came on by itself, which is what makes hints cost points, and the last three stops are worth the most.

What you will want to change

Two map pins needed dragging: the Baroque church landed about 150 metres south of St Nicholas, and the finish about 200 metres east of the bridge tower, along Karlova. The bigger one: the draft walks all five teams down one identical route, so thirty people would crowd every stop together. Open Player routes in the builder and turn on Multiple start points, which is free, then release the hunt so teams begin at different stops instead of all leaving together.

Draft this team building hunt

Questions people ask

How does the AI scavenger hunt generator work?

Describe your idea in a sentence or two. The AI drafts a full scavenger hunt, the clues, a route through real places, and a challenge on each step, which you can then refine in the builder.

Is it free?

Yes. Creating, changing and sharing a hunt is free. Each hunt can be played on 5 phones a month for free, and for a bigger group you buy a phone pack once and use it on all your hunts.

Can I change what the AI makes?

Completely. Every clue, stop, and setting is editable in the builder, by hand or by chatting with the AI in plain language.

Does it work for kids, adults, and teams?

Yes. Tell the generator who the hunt is for and it adjusts the tone and difficulty, from a kids party to a team offsite.

Do players need an app?

No. Players open one link and play in their phone browser. There is nothing to install.

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