The lockdown has taken up most of the year, but that doesn’t mean you have to stay bored at home. Why not indulge in an indoor scavenger hunt? Quarantine is bound to get more interesting and exciting when there’s a fun hunt involved. This is why we’ve put together an epic list of indoor hunt ideas for you. You can make your own hunt with riddles and puns or opt for a pre-made hunt that’s a breeze to organize. Go through our fun list of 15 epic indoor scavenger hunt ideas and take your pick now!
1. In-Home Scavenger Hunt
Roam From Home brings you an exciting in-home scavenger hunt that you can enjoy with your loved ones without leaving your doorstep. Here, you can select from a host of hilarious challenges, activities, puzzles, and trivia to play along with your family and friends. There are special challenges for kids and adults so that you can involve the entire family in the game. If you’re looking to play with your significant other, there is a special couples edition that you can try. With a live leaderboard, customizable options, and new, themed challenges for every holiday, there’s something new to look forward to on every hunt!
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2. Adventures From Scratch
Who said books are boring? Adventures From Scratch is your best bet to adventure during your digital detox. This interactive scratch-off adventure book has more than 50 activities to suit every mood and occasion. The Family Edition has special activities and challenges that you can do with your children. They’re funny, silly, exciting, and wholesome all at once. Adventures From Scratch: Couples Edition has romantic and funny hunts and adventures that you can enjoy with your significant other. Rekindle the sparks in your relationship with these ideas!
3. DIY Hunt
We’ve all had too much time to ourselves this quarantine. Why not put this time to good use to make your own indoor scavenger hunt with riddles? We’ve got all the information you need in our scavenger hunt riddles blog – there are more than 50 riddles to choose from, for kids, tweens, and adults. Pick your riddles of choice and frame your indoor scavenger hunt rules accordingly. Leave clues around the house so that your family can find them one by one. While you’re at it, leave a special gift next to each clue to add to the fun!
4. Morse Code Hunt
Channel major scout vibes with this interesting hunt. The rules are just like any other indoor scavenger hunt. Give your family clues at every step so that they get closer and closer to the prize. But here’s the catch-all the clues are written in Morse code. This means that not only must they find the answer to each riddle, but they must also decode each question from Morse code to English, to find the answer. This makes the game even more interesting and fun and uses their brain cells as well!
5. Color Hunt
Perfect for younger children, this hunt is a great way to teach them the names and spellings of colors. Leave flashcards with different colors on them around the house. Then, give your children another set of flashcards with the name of each color written on them. The goal of the hunt is to find the color cards and match them with the name cards. When you’re done, you can color and sketch with your children so that they remember the names better!
6. Number Hunt
Another easy hunt idea for children, this hunt can be played in two ways. First, give your child a card with numbers on them, and strategically place items around the house. Your child must count and place the items in such a way that they match the numbers on the card.
You can play this game the other way around too. Leave a set of counted items around the house so that your child can match the items to numbers on the cards. This way, your child can easily learn to count, and have fun while they’re at it!
7. Language Hunt
Perfect for tweens and adults, this game involves some translation and a lot of fun. Prepare your scavenger hunt riddles and leave them around the house. But here’s the twist – each riddle is in a different language. Your team must translate the clues to English before solving the riddle. For this, you can use Google translate or other tools to figure out the meaning of the riddle. Learn a new language during quarantine and brush up your skills with this hunt!
8. Silent Hunt
This hunt is just like another other, but with a small twist – there must be absolutely no talking or noise at all during this hunt. Any team that makes a sound will have to do a dare or will have points docked. Teams can use papers and pens or use actions to communicate between themselves. Make your clues a tad complicated so that the teams get as creative as possible – we recommend having animal clues so that they can make animal noises!
9. Food Hunt
We love how delicious this hunt is! Have food-themed clues and trivia questions and leave them around the house. In addition to the clues, leave some food so that your team has something to snack on. In fact, you can add clues to the packaging of the food or use wordplay as well. Here’s an example:
“This number is irrational, but the food is not.
You’ll find your next clue here, be it homemade or store-bought!”
Answer: 3.14 / pie
10. Map Hunt
Get ready to go around the world in 80 minutes with this geographic hunt. Put up a map of the world where everyone can see and leave clues about different cities and countries around the hunt. Whenever a team finds and solves a clue, they must add a pin to the country on the map to show that they have claimed that clue. In the end, the team that has the most pins on the board wins the bounty!
11. Book Hunt
This hunt is a great idea for book lovers. If you’re looking to get your kids into reading, this is the hunt for you. Hide interesting, funny clues within books on your shelf. This means that your children must solve each clue, find the name of the book in the clue, and look for the book on your shelf. The game goes on with books spanning different genres and authors until you reach the final clue. Through this game, you can get your children interested and curious about reading!
12. Pillow Fort Hunt
Tune into your playful side with this fun hunt. Make a different pillow fort in every room of your house and leave clues inside each fort. The teams must enter each fort and find clues to solve the final puzzle. While they’re at it, they can also defend the fort they have occupied so that other teams do not find the clues within their fort. This is a combination of a scavenger hunt and indoor capture-the-flag. Two games, twice the fun!
13. Toy Hunt
This game is sure to leave your children wanting more. Hide each clue inside a toy and leave them around the house, in the most inconspicuous places, for example, behind a flowerpot, inside the refrigerator, and so on. Each team must look for the toy based on the clues and solve the hunt accordingly. The team that wins gets to keep the toys and play with them!
14. Sock Hunt
This hunt is a great way to test your family’s memory. Here, hide each clue in socks and leave them around the house. Make sure that you leave each sock individually – split the pairs and leave them in separate rooms. Not only must every team find the clues and decode them, but they must pair up the socks in the right way. This is a hilarious way to pair up the lone socks in the house and go on an indoor hunt while you’re at it!
15. Photo Hunt
You can play this hunt in two ways. First, leave different photos in the house along with the clues so that each clue leads to a photo – the photos can be nostalgic and wholesome, or just plain funny.
Another way to play this hunt is to make it digital – each time a team finds a clue, they must take a photo and send it to the organizer so that their entry is counted. This is a great way to remember the hunt and post about it on social media to show off your fun family time!
Staying indoors during quarantine is safe and responsible, but it doesn’t have to be boring. With an indoor scavenger hunt, quarantine can become fun and exciting. Which of our indoor hunt ideas did you like the most? Do you have more DIY hunt plans and ideas? Brainstorm in the comments section below!
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