Armchair Treasure Hunt Archive
All previous Hunts (and the answers!) can be viewed from the list below. In addition there are usually "Notes" describing the thoughts of the setter(s), and "Tales" from teams that entered the Hunt.
| Year | Setter(s) | Title and theme | Treasure site |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Beet | Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Kierkegaard | London Loop South, Coulsdon |
| 2022 | DaphneHQ | CATastrophe! The Story of the Godstow Witch | Godstow Abbey, Oxford |
| 2021 | The Urban Marsupial Orchestra | The Twelve Days of Cold Christmas (& Prime Meridians) | Cold Christmas, Hertfordshire |
| 2020 | Apopheniacs Anonymous | Treasure Island, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe | Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington |
| 2019 | Jonathan Mestel & Paul Barden | Bank Robberies & Ruth Rendell | BlackWeir Pond, near Loughton, Essex |
| 2018 | Mike Wood | Ian Fleming and the James Bond books | Famous Copse, Nr Nettlebed, Oxfordshire |
| 2017 | Bruce Hindsight | Another Fine Mess | Messing, Essex |
| 2016 | Steve Hames & Roger Thetford | Whisky and Beer (& Iain Banks) | Pitstone Hill, Bucks |
| 2015 | Dave Kee | Great Circles (FitzRoy & the Beagle) | Croxley Hall Wood, Herts |
| 2014 | Alcoholus Lubricatum | Life (HHGG, DNA & La Vie mode d᾿emploi) | Ickleton, Cambridgeshire |
| 2013 | Brian Jackson & Phil Stockton | Space Truckin’ (Deep Purple & Space Travel) | Ridge, Herts |
| 2012 | Mike Wood | Stopping by Woods (Bath and John Woods) | Combe Down, Somerset |
| 2011 | Garry Smith | An Enigma (Alan Turing & Codebreaking) | Shenley Wood, Bucks |
| 2010 | Chris & David Baker, David Manley | The Lost Formula (Social Networking Sites, Mints) | East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire |
| 2009 | Barden Gnomes | athmmix (Dorothy L. Sayers) | Witham, Essex |
| 2008 | Tim North | The Royal Parks (& London Landmarks) | Hampton Court Green, Middlesex |
| 2007 | Paul Coombs | The Fool on the Hill (Italo Calvino & Tarot) | Coombe Hill, Bucks |
| 2006 | Steve Hames | Golf | Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire |
| 2005 | Paul Coombs | The Fox Hunt | Watlington Hill, Oxfordshire |
| 2004 | Barden Gnomes | ATH for Dummies (Playing Cards) | Grantchester, Cambridgeshire |
| 2003 | Stephen Lees | Driven (Sports Cars) | Ulting, Essex |
| 2002 | Mark Abbott | Wasted (Christopher & Philip Marlowe) | Chislehurst, Kent |
| 2001 | Ian Canning | 2001: an Armchair Treasure Hunt (Tolkien) | Port Meadow, Oxfordshire |
| 2000 | Dave Kee | Snakes and Ladders (Hillingdon Trail) | Hillingdon Trail, Middlesex |
| 1999 | Steve Hames | Time | Herstmonceux, East Sussex |
| 1998 | Brian Mills | Food | Beaconsfield, Bucks |
| 1997 | Paul Coombs & Dave Harding | Fact or Fiction | Fotheringhay, Northants |
| 1996 | Dave Kee | Fibonacci Series | Ashridge Park, Herts |
| 1995 | Rosalind & Paul Barden, Jonathan Mestel | George Orwell | Wallington, Herts |
| 1994 | Paul Coombs | "The Armchair" Magazine (Cranford) | Cranford Park, Middlesex |
| 1993 | Steve Hames | London Underground | Little Chalfont, Bucks |
| 1992 | Paul Coombs & Brian Jackson | Sets | Fetcham, Surrey |
| 1991 | Steve Hames | Sherlock Holmes | Cookham, Berks |
| 1990 | Rod Fine & Brian Jackson | Astrology | Addington Hills, Surrey |
| 1989 | Paul Coombs & Brian Jackson | Chess | Copped Hall, Upshire, Essex |
| 1988 | Paul Coombs & Brian Jackson | Connections, GB Shaw | Ayot St Peter, Herts |
| 1987 | - | No hunt set | - |
| 1986 | Paul Coombs & Brian Jackson | Magic | Northaw, Herts |
| 1985 | Paul Coombs & Brian Jackson | The Melting Brain | Xmas Common, Oxfordshire |