# Are Armchair Treasure Hunt Books Still Being Published?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-armchair-treasure-hunt-books-still-being-published/413509>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 28, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-armchair-treasure-hunt-books-still-being-published/413509 "2007-07-28T18:49:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-armchair-treasure-hunt-books-still-being-published/413509/1 "2007-07-28T18:49:44Z")

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[Wikipedia article about armchair treasure hunts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_treasure_hunt). The article is rather haphazard, and reads somewhat like a sales pitch for a hunt club.

Anyway, are such (or similar) books still being published? I’ve never seen one, but admittedly I haven’t looked very hard. I’m thinking about writing one. Anyone want to help? 😉

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-armchair-treasure-hunt-books-still-being-published/413509/2 "2007-07-29T01:33:02Z")

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Here’s a previous thread about this subject:

> **[Were those 'Solve a puzzle and get a massive prize' books ever legit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=422582)**
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> I remember when I was a kid there were lot of books that offered a prize to the first person to crack the puzzle within. Generally it was a relatively small book. Each page had a picture and some text. The text would tell a not very good story and...