York Treasure Hunt Adventure: Uncover the Mystery of The Gunpowder Snitch in Historic York Streets
4.8
80 Ratings
York

Uncover the mystery of The Gunpowder Snitch in historic York streets. Join the adventure and turn York into a giant escape room. Discover hidden messages, eliminate suspects, and solve the case!

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Shared Earth - Explore the historic streets of York on a quest to unravel the unsolved mystery of The Gunpowder Snitch!
    Solve the clues, eliminate the suspects, and unmask the mysterious figure behind the most legendary act of betrayal!
    On your adventure you will discover York’s amazing hidden history, visit its most atmospheric taverns, and soak…
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What's Included
  • 40-page activity booklet with story, clues, historical info, and maps
What's Not Included
  • Guide
  • Alcoholic beverages
Additional Information

Embark on a quest and transform the ancient York streets into a MASSIVE escape room adventure!
✔️ Explore York’s impressive history & secret treasures!
✔️ Experience a unique adventure with your comrades.
✔️ Combine your intellects to decipher the hints & unfold the thrilling narrative.
Just as Guy Fawkes prepared to ignite his fuse, an undisclosed letter…

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Location
Shared Earth
Minster Gates
This is a self-guided treasure hunt which begins at Shared Earth, 1 Minster Gates, York YO1 7HL. Simply show the staff a copy of your payment receipt, and they will issue you with The Mystery of The Gunpowder Snitch activity book.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Duggy1962
Feb 17, 2025
Great fun Great value - Great Fun to do and really great value. Met some fellow detectives on the way to which was nice. Just a great way to explore York.
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Coopsontour
Jan 11, 2025
So good we’ve bought another already. - We live quite close to York and have visited many times. This was a great way to get a good walk round the city and see the sights on a freezing day. Stopped a couple of times along the way to warm up, although not at the pubs in the book (Blue Bell rather than Golden Fleece). It was a fun afternoon, we’ve just bought another for a trip to Newcastle.
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Patsybell
Oct 26, 2024
Brand new Reading mystery adventure - Another brand new mystery adventure in Reading. We have never been to Reading before, so a whole new experience! We travelled by train, and as we came out of the station it began to rain :(. BUT, our first clue was in the pub right next door The Three Guineas, so a good place to shelter and contemplate our adventure. We always have a bet on who is the suspect and where did it happen , and loser buys tea!!!. It stopped raining and we set off. Again another great adventure, most of the clues were easy to find/follow, although clue 8 was tricky. We searched all round the park for a map that looked like the clue in the book, but, eventually we found it, it was in plain sight all the time, but you need to look very carefully at the map of the park!! It was a good adventure, fairly flat terrain, clues that made you think, but good ones. And we found out a lot about Reading too! We ended up at the last place where the Whip was kept and we found that easily. We stayed there and had a really nice tea, before we headed home. Unfortunately, we were both hopelessly wrong about the suspect and place where it happened ,so we tossed a coin to see who would pay for tea!!! lol !!
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Helenra4546bv
Oct 19, 2024
York - Great time walking round York to solve mystery and meeting people doing the same thing. But why put the answer on last page and then say submit answer to see if you have solved the clues?
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Maryhare1
Oct 12, 2024
Mystery Guide - York - Excellent! Useful history fact information. A good walk around the city and learnt so much more. Would recommended it.
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Relax55813596235
Oct 4, 2024
A new way of exploring York - Although I had been to York a few years ago, the trail gave me a chance to explore the streets of York with a real purpose. The clues were fairly difficult at times but my daughter was able to quickly work out the answers. She has now ordered the London guide. It took us 3 hours but we stopped for coffee on the way. As there were five of us it was useful to take a photo of the page so that everyone had access to the clues.
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Isobeld675
Sep 30, 2024
Surprise for visiting friends from Scotland - Had already done the mystery and bought it for friends. Was fun to hear them bicker and disagree over clues while I knew the answers already. They loved it too! Doing Edinburgh in a few weeks. Well done team!
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J6341dlangelab
Sep 20, 2024
A brilliant hunt - I had already done 1 of the london ones and did york with my family we had such a laugh and a great time it was an amazing couple of hours we are going to try to get them all
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Geepster
Sep 17, 2024
Pub crawl with a purpose - Eclectic clues, interesting pubs, went down snickets I'd never been down before and saw things I didn't know about. Well recommended for a different day in York.
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Kh1354
Feb 5, 2025
Interesting gift - Received this as a Christmas present Found it really great to do and even though I've visited York countless times I learned and saw new and interesting things It's a good way to explore the city get some fresh air and exercise and forget about your mobile phones for awhile Would recommend
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