You’re not collecting objects (drop that pigeon!), you’re searching for answers to tricky, humorous questions that help you see a museum, neighborhood, or other cool place with new eyes.
The game is played on teams of up to six people. No knowledge of any hunt location is required—all you need is a sharp mind and a good pair of shoes. More than 150,000 hunters served since 1999.
Advance purchase is required for all hunts. To purchase tickets online, select a city or a hunt and go to the hunt calendar. To purchase tickets by phone, call OvationTix at 866-811-4111 (Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time). Please note that there is a $1 surcharge for phone orders.
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Explore Chicago on scavenger hunts that reveal the best of such places as the Loop, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, Navy Pier, Lincoln Park, the Museum of Science & Industry, and many more great locations.
Photo: ‘Cloud Gate,’ aka The Bean, in Millennium Park
Treat your taste buds to an adventure while exploring this eclectic, sometimes eccentric neighborhood. Highlights include Dorothy and friends in Oz Park, micro mansions, misplaced Parisians, Founding Fathers […]
A curator has been murdered! And he left behind a cryptic trail of clues connected with secrets in works of art. As your team gathers answers about the artwork, you begin to piece together a sordid tale about […]
Can you deduce whodunit? Someone—or some thing—has been bumping off museum staffers involved in acquiring a sacred Egyptian relic. Is it the dreaded Curse of Ahtchu? Or is a serial killer on the loose? Your […]
See the city through the eyes of Hollywood! Downtown Chicago has been one of Hollywood’s favorite back lots, a cinematic chameleon that has even doubled for New York. This tour takes you to numerous places […]
Take an unblushing look at nudity ...at the Art Institute of Chicago. You’ll scrutinize bathing beauties, peeping Toms, sultry sirens, a muscleman who’ll ruin his birthday suit while wrestling a lion, a woman […]
Steel your nerves... for an ominous adventure, as you explore the creepy, eerie side of art. Artists definitely have a dark side, and you’ll discover it at your peril while searching for skulls and skeletons, […]
Follow in the footsteps of young wizards on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago in search of art that echoes characters, places, and enchanted objects in the famed Harry Potter books and movies. Be […]
Discover the oddest animals and strangest facts ...at the Lincoln Park Zoo. You’ll cross climates on an African safari, learn how your neck is like a twiga’s, get hissed at by cockroaches, endure howling […]
This much fun must defy the laws of physics. You’d never suspect that the Museum of Science & Industry contained so many crazy, amazing, and amusing sights and facts, revealed on this madcap tour. If you like […]
Want the thrill of the great outdoors while remaining indoors? Head to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum for a hunt filled with surprises and delights: You’ll walk among a profusion of live butterflies. You’ll […]
Check out “Murder Mystery” in the Themes dropdown menu for hunts that combine a whirlwind tour of a great museum with a plot, suspects, and codes you must untangle. Also available in other cities.
