Secrets of SoHo Scavenger Hunt | Landmark Urban Adventure through SoHo & Nolita
Private, fully hosted team competitions. Puzzle-driven pen & paper games in the real world.
Inside the Hunt
Race through Manhattan’s cast-iron district on our Secrets of SoHo (and Nooks of Nolita!) scavenger hunt — where 19th-century facades frame designer boutiques, and Italian heritage meets cosmopolitan energy. Navigate streets paved with Belgian blocks as you explore the hidden gems south of Houston and the old-world charm north of Little Italy.
Your group forms teams and sets out from The Wall, where the neighborhood begins. From there, clues guide you through cathedral courtyards, legendary bistros, historic speakeasies, and fashionable thoroughfares — the perfect setting for a friendly competition!
- Group Size
- 5–500+ players
- Duration
- ~2 hours
- Setting
- Outdoor
- Activity Level
- Moderate walking
Since 2008
SoHo's Hidden Stories
Along the way, you’ll decode gilded inscriptions on the Puck Building, follow the footsteps of the “Italian Sherlock Holmes,” discover the iconic Balthazar, browse designer showrooms from Kate Spade to Warby Parker, and behold architecture that blends industry with European elegance.
Highlights
- Meet Puck, the Shakespearean trickster and America’s first political satire magazine
- Investigate Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral, America’s first male saint and quiet cemetery gardens behind imposing iron gates
- Salute Lt. Joseph Petrosino, the pioneering NYPD detective who formed the elite “Italian Branch” to fight organized crime
- Trace the origins of American pizza at Lombardi’s, with crispy history you can smell from the sidewalk
- Explore McNally Jackson Books’ poetic musings and Housing Works’ important mission, faded ghost signs, and traces of SoHo’s manufacturing past
- Creative challenges — high-fashion poses, celebrity autograph hunts, storytelling, spontaneous theatrics, and much more!
Life-long New Yorkers will be surprised by how much they learn! Visitors will have a hands-on experience not possible on a tour.
Our Secrets of SoHo scavenger hunt is a game of strategy where teams search for clues, solve puzzles, and race to outsmart each other and win. Are you ready? Let’s go!
