scavenger hunt

Example Sentences

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Finding the best pint in a given city has become a digital scavenger hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

At one man's request, the agency devised a "Mission Impossible" production for an adventurous young woman: an iPad delivered in the morning launched a scavenger hunt across Paris by sidecar and by boat.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

The point of a scavenger hunt is not to produce anything of value; the items on the list don’t add up to any coherent, meaningful narrative.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025

In the hour before Pippi’s party, children scoured the room on a scavenger hunt to find nine Pippis, donning disguises from a Dodgers jersey to a 1920s flapper dress.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025

You have found the first clue in Garrison Griswold's literary scavenger hunt launched on November 10.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman