Whether team-building or exploring with friends and family, searching for clues and solving puzzles is popular
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f you spot someone in a busy city centre street with a puzzled, possibly pained look asking their companions whether that’s an elephant at the top of a drainpipe, they are probably not mad – but on an urban treasure hunt.
There has been, one city tourism boss said, an “explosion” in the number and popularity of treasure and scavenger hunts in the UK.
From tracking down art thieves in Penzance to investigating an am-dram murder in Inverness, treasure hunts are a craze popular with couples, families and groups including hen parties.
