Create Your Own Adventures

Escape rooms, scavenger hunts, mysteries and treasure hunts you can set up tonight. Printable, playable, and built by someone who designs puzzles for a living.

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Set up in one afternoon

An overhead view of a map spread on a wooden table, with a brass compass in one hand, a finger marking a spot on the map, a vintage camera, leather gloves and a mug of coffee.

Choose Your Adventure

Six ways into the library. Every one of them ends with somebody solving something.

A rusted padlock and chain fastening a pair of weathered blue metal doors.

Escape RoomsLock a room. Hand them the first clue.

A back garden with small marker flags planted across the grass.

Scavenger HuntsTurn ordinary places into adventures.

An open wooden chest with brass banding, gold coins spilling out.

Treasure HuntsA trail worth following to the end.

A magnifying glass resting on an open case file over a fingerprint.

Mystery GamesSomebody did it. Work out who.

A party table seen from above with bunting, a candlelit cake and confetti.

Party AdventuresGames that carry a whole evening.

A chalkboard on an easel in an empty classroom.

Classroom AdventuresFriday lessons they actually remember.

On the Questboard

A few things worth exploring right now: a featured adventure, useful guides, a free download, and something to solve on the spot.

A carved pumpkin lit from within on a wooden step under a crescent moon.

Featured adventureThe Haunted House Escape

Four rooms, one locked front door, and a finale that lands. Print it tonight, play it Saturday.

See the Adventure

A clue card left beside a wooden box, photographed from above.

The bench clue, hidden in plain sight

Try it

YNRJW

Shift each letter back by five.

Free downloadThe Decoder Wheel

One page, cut out two circles, and every clue you write gets a second layer.

Get it free

A torn fragment of a hand-drawn treasure map with a dotted route, a compass rose and a marked X.

Three padlocks in a row on a wooden table beside a closed box.

New guideHow to Build an Escape Room in Your Living Room

Three padlocks, one afternoon, nothing bought twice.

A folded paper note tucked into the gap of a half-open wooden drawer.

Most read15 Clever Places to Hide a Scavenger Hunt Clue

The best hiding place is one they walk past twice.

Birthday Mystery Quest$9.99View

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Adventures for Right Now

Sorted by the occasion you are actually planning for.

Halloween11 adventures

Balloons above a simple frosted cake with confetti in the air.

Birthday6 adventures

An open umbrella in falling rain under heavy clouds.

Rainy Day6 adventures

A phone on a dark desk showing a clue, beside a circled check mark on paper.

For Teens5 adventures

Build Something Clever

A good scavenger hunt does not need thirty clues. It needs a few that make people feel clever when they solve them.

Adventure PlanningIndoor Scavenger Hunt for Kids: Free Printable Lists for Every AgeAn indoor scavenger hunt for a rainy day, with lists for three ages that work in any home and need no setting up at all.1 min read

Adventure PlanningFall Scavenger Hunt for Kids: A Free Printable List for the Yard or ParkA fall scavenger hunt list for the backyard or the park, by age, with every item findable on an ordinary fall afternoon.1 min read

Hiding Places100 Places to Hide a Clue, From Easy to SneakyA hundred hiding places for a treasure or scavenger hunt, by room and by how hard they are to find, with a clue ready to make for many of them.12 min read

Built by a game designer

Yizzoo was created by Selfdefiant, who has been making escape games for twenty years and has made thousands of them. Everything here is built around the same idea: puzzles should make people feel clever, not frustrated.

Meet the creator