Funny scavenger hunt ideas list for adults – 100 original tasks

Technology has not only improved the creation of scavenger hunt games but also simplified the generation of funny scavenger hunt ideas for adults. With most people owning phones with cameras, capturing images is effortless.

Leverage this by encouraging players to recreate humorous scenarios and photograph them as proof—this is sure to spark fun and laughter among participants. Use this list of 100 funny scavenger hunt ideas to create a memorable, picture-perfect game that everyone will cherish!

Funny picture-based scavenger hunt ideas for adults

Creating themed photos is a popular type of scavenger hunt challenge, especially for outdoor games. These funny scavenger hunt ideas for adults require players to use their imagination along with their photography skills to recreate the specified scenarios in a way that makes them instantly recognizable. Here are 75 scavenger hunt challenges featuring scenarios you can ask players to bring to life through cleverly planned photos.

Take a photo of…

1. A successful band performing in a local pub, with the band comprised of the members of your team
2. Triathlon athletes on the starting line waiting for the start
3. Lady Gaga and her band in a hotel room – at least three team members have to be in the picture
4. Movie stars at a premiere
5. Hitchhikers trying to outdo each other
6. Setting a new Guinness world record
7. Greenpeace activists protecting the last tree on Earth
8. A team of cheerleaders – bonus points for standing on shoulders
9. A mosh pit at a music festival
10. People protesting against marshmallows
11. Overcooked tourists on vacation
12. A vicious squabble between middle-aged spouses
13. Birdwatchers watching each other
14. Triplets – of course, most likely there won’t be any of them around, so the players will have to disguise themselves as such, using identical clothing or accessories.
15. The world’s best fishing spot
16. Bonnie and Clyde at the moment of arrest
17. 4 athletes at their daily exercise session
18. A chess championship and an overexcited crowd watching it
19. The next morning after a wild frat party
20. Mulder and Scully investigating
21. Easter bunny being found out while hiding easter eggs
22. Tarzan, Jane, and the apes
23. A moonshine distillery
24. Cirque de Soleil
25. An insurance broker and a millionaire who crashed his Lamborghini
26. Dracula not being able to make up his mind which one to bite
27. Amsterdam’s red light district – of course, this will only be interesting if you’re nowhere near Amsterdam
28. An elk family strolling through the forest
29. A CSI team gathering evidence
30. A police lineup with at least four criminals
31. Playboy front cover
32. A fight between a love triangle
33. An evening in the hippie commune
34. 11 people holding hands
35. Top 3 at a last-minute bodybuilding competition
36. A ballet lesson
37. An angry landowner chasing trespassers
38. An alternative band playing in a very underground venue
39. A picture from the Kardashian family album
40. Cannibals performing a ritual
41. Opening this question gave a magical power to one of your group members. Show how this power affects the other group members!
42. Subway train at rush hour in Japan
43. An energy-raising exercise at a New Age retreat
44. The whole team crossing the street duckling-style
45. Undercover picture from a shady business deal
46. A Russian bear and scared hunters
47. Protesters closing down the traffic
48. Everybody in the picture with their hands and legs in the air
49. All team members giving a high-five to strangers at the same time!
50. A million-dollar lottery winner
51. A dictator giving a speech
52. A surgery, with the doctor, assistants, and nurses
53. A team member with someone from another team
54. 8 hands and 13 fingers
55. Passengers of flight that’s been postponed for the second week in the row
56. World’s tallest woman and a curious crowd watching her
57. A fashion show in front of a thrift shop
58. PETA protesters in front of a fur store
59. One of the teammates giving another a piggyback ride
60. A festive moment with Bill Clinton
61. Stone Age hunters bringing home a huge catch!
62. 4 friends fighting over the last bottle of beer on a hot day
63. A scene from Frozen
64. Someone fishing in a public fountain
65. Scared people watching a meteorite approach
66. Contestants of a beauty pageant
67. Squirrels harvesting nuts before winter
68. Someone who’s too hot to handle
69. All of the team members blending well into the surroundings
70. Construct and wear a pirate hat made out of a newspaper
71. A team member finding a new friend
72. A happy dog with one of the team members
73. Seeing through X-ray glasses
74. Last minutes of the prom dance
75. Strike your best yoga pose with the whole team

You can also try our Photo Hunt. Using Loquiz, you can host Photo Hunt events!

Want even more funny scavenger hunt ideas? Continue reading to find hilarious exercise tasks for the players to try out and riddles that will make every player pause and think for a moment.⬇️

Try it out – challenging exercises to recreate

If you’re looking for funny scavenger hunt tasks that are a bit less open to interpretation, here are 15 very specific exercises you can ask your players to carry out. Some of them could turn out to be quite hard but trying to succeed will create a lot of fun for those taking part.

1. Try it out! You stand in a pool filled with water covering your head at your exact height. Can you get your nose above water to breathe if you stand on your tip toes?
2. Count it up! How many people do you need to get 10 little toes?
3. Try out if it is possible to touch your navel with your nose?
4. Try it out! There are four people: tallest, tall, short, and shortest.
   The tallest player puts their right hand on the shortest one’s knee.
   The short one grabs the tallest player’s left hand.
   The tall player leans the same leg’s knee against the shortest one’s left knee that doesn’t have a hand on it and with their opposite hand grabs the short player’s same hand. How many right hands are left free?
5. If you stand in a way that your nose, chest, and pelvis are against the wall, can you put your elbows together?
6. Is it possible to sneeze with your eyes open?
7. Try out if any of the players can lick their own elbow?
8. Try it out! Is it possible to jump in the air and clap your hands and kick your feet together more than two times?
9. Try it out. Is it possible to touch your navel from behind your back?
10. Try it out! Four people stand in a row. Is it possible to join everyone’s left hands together while still standing in a row?
11. Try it out. A person is lying down on their back so that their hands are tied behind their back and attached to it. Can any of the players stand back up without help?
12. Try it out! Simultaneously rotate the index fingers of both hands clockwise. Do it slowly at first, but then pick up speed. Try to go as fast as you can. Is it possible to keep rotating both index fingers clockwise?
13. Is it possible for two people to stand side by side, 1 meter apart, with both looking in the same direction and holding hands so that their right-hand holds the other person’s left and their left-hand holds the other person’s right?
14. Some people walk in a row. One person is in front of two people, one person is behind two people and one person is in between two people. How many people are there? Show the correct answer by recreating it!
15. Three out of four people in a pitch-dark office don’t have headlamps. One person has two headlamps. How many search parties can be formed to search for a lost red stapler?

10 riddles for the bonus round!

Riddles are mostly associated with children but they work great as a funny scavenger hunt idea for adults as well. While the modern form of scavenger hunts can have many different kinds of challenges, originally it usually involved a set of riddles or clues that the players need to find answers to in order to figure out the next location to go. Therefore, riddles and scavenger hunts go together very well. So, here are 10 riddles that work great as a treasure hunt question ideas for adults.

Come up with an answer to this riddle and take a picture of it! (you can find answers at the end of the post)

1. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
2. At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen.
3. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
4. I am a solitary word, 5 letters long. Behead me once, I am the same. Behead me again, I am still the same.
5. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?
6. I am very easy to get into, but it is hard to get out of me. What am I?
7. What heavy seven-letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?
8. I am the beginning of the end, the end of every place. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
9. Alone I am 24th, with a friend I am 20. Add another friend and I am naughty.
10. Give me food and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I?

Answers:

1. Stamp
2. Stars
3. Ton
4. Alone
5. Breath
6. Trouble
7. Weights
8. Letter “E”
9. X. (24th letter in the alphabet, XX is 20 in roman numerals and XXX substitutes profanities.)
10. Fire

We hope this list of funny scavenger hunt ideas and clues for adults helps you create and run an exciting and memorable game! Just remember that, for the scavenger hunt to be engaging, the tasks should be challenging enough to create excitement for the players, but not so difficult that they cannot be completed in a reasonable amount of time. This balance will ensure that players remain enthusiastic about the next assignment throughout the game. If you’re planning to set up a scavenger hunt, consider trying this one out!