So, what is the Treasure Hunt?

The Treasure Hunt is known for being a cryptic journey challenging each team. Some years they are so challenging not all team’s finish. Below is information on

Year	Organisers	Description	Winning Team
2024	Phil Hannay	The Fool’s Errand, where teams had to follow the fool’s journey (played by Phil Hannay) through 20 puzzles of the tarot deck to find the missing sun.
2019			Team Green – Phil Hannay, Mark Rigby-Jones, Lisa Sanders, Terry Sanders, Adam Carter
2018	Phil Hannay	The Great British Bake Off. Except something went (intentionally!) wrong in the technical challenge and teams (via the medium of an annoying beeping ternary code) discovered the cake was a lie.	he Wooden Spoon – Ian Lynagh, Chris Martin, Mark Fox, Mark Rigby-Jones
2017			The Firefoxes – Claire Bennett, Mark Fox, Chris Martin, James Richardson, Lucy Richardson, Mark Rigby-Jones
2016	Phil Hannay and Martin Burroughs	“After watching “Escape From New York” and “Escape From LA” one too many times, the government has decided to turn Leicester into a giant prison camp. You, the most brilliant minds in the country, are invited to attend the Grand Opening in the bar at 2pm on Sunday. It will last between 2 and 2 1⁄2 hours. Anyone who has seen the two movies mentioned will know that the opening will be ABSOLUTELY 100% SAFE. You will NOT need to run about like lunatics. You will NOT need to solve puzzles. There will be NO locked briefcases. You will NOT need to work together to escape a fate worse than death. Lunch will NOT be provided (no, really). Thank you.” Teams had to Escape from the new City-Prison of Leicester, the highlight (for me) was a very convoluted live activity involving finding tokens in a room while blindfolded.	2016 – Dan Lester, Dave Percik, Chris Martin, Mark Rigby-Jones, Robin Walters
2015			Jerry Elsmore, Mark Fox, Vick Hall, Simon Hornby, Jen Marshall, David Tittle
2014			Team Traitor – Gordon Aickin, Dan Lester, Chris Martin, Phil Williams
2013			Team One – Dave Durant, Mark Fox, Annie Percik, David Tittle, Katy Walters
2012			The Red Team – Mark Jones, Timothy Luffingham, David Norman, Phil Williams
2011		A journey through the Crystal Maze, where you had to solve Mystery, Mental, Skill and Physical challenges in four different zones, followed by a “playing card pickup” variant of the crystal dome	Three Odd Bods – David Winter, Hannah Gordon-Smith. David Tittle
2010			One Phil and Five Fillers – Phil Hannay, Mark Fox, Mark Rigby-Jones, Robin Walters, Gordon Aickin, Dan Lester
2009			The red team – And after 8 hours of hunting, nobody cared who was in that team!
2008		A chase around the UK railway network from Leicester, called “The De Montford Code”, where you had to recover the Manorcon Charter	Just Hang on a Minute & Four Hymns and a Hearse – Michael Colao, Timothy Luffingham, Mark Jones, Hilary Jones, Jerry Elsmore & David Tittle, Charles Patrick, John Colledge, Kath Collman, Jeremy Tullett
2007			Three Phils and Three Fillers – Phil Hannay, Phil Gardner, Phil Williams, Adam Foster, Robin Walters, Chris Dawe
2006
2005		Themed on The Omega Virus (old board game). You had to solve puzzles to get the 3 anti-virus devices, then enter them into the computer to discover the source code and defeat the virus.