About the work

A closer look.

You name a city. I pick one real street there, go and look at it, and write five scavenger hunt clues from details that only mean something when you are standing in front of them. Not famous landmarks. A shop sign, a doorway, a thing painted on a wall, a name over a gate. The street's name never appears in the clues. One set is enough for a proposal scavenger hunt, a date night scavenger hunt, a birthday scavenger hunt for kids, or an anniversary scavenger hunt. The set ends with one line that gives the answer, for whoever is running the game. What you get: five clues, in order, one to two sentences each, checked by me on street-level view the day I write them. Plain text, easy to print or send. What to send me: the city, and one line about who is solving it and why (a birthday, a proposal, a date, a friend who thinks they know cities). The shape of it, one set I wrote for a street in Lisbon, answer included: 1. I am steep enough that my pavement is the vehicle. 2. On my right wall, under a black iron lamp, a blue circle orders a turn and nothing else. 3. What waits at my crest is yellow. Answer: Rua da Bica de Duarte Belo. The Elevador da Bica runs up it. Delivery: three days. One free revision if a clue lands flat or a location is closed. I do not reuse a street I have already sold.