The Iron Sentinel
"I guard a door no one walks through. Count my rivets, halve them, walk that many paces toward the morning sun."
Someone hid something real out there — cash, relics, letters — and left only a riddle. Crack it. Get there first. Film the find. Keep it. No tokens, no pixels. Actual dirt under actual fingernails.
▸ NEAREST DROP 40.7128°N, 74.0060°W · SIGNAL STRONG
Field bulletin
Three are out there right now. Every one was hidden on camera, in one take, geo-locked. The riddle is free. Getting there first is on you.
"I guard a door no one walks through. Count my rivets, halve them, walk that many paces toward the morning sun."
"Where the old map shop died, a new one was born. Ask for the atlas nobody buys. Page 44 remembers me."
"The river keeps no secrets twice a day. When she pulls back her sleeve, look for the third piling's shadow."
One cache. One riddle, twelve lines long. Hidden somewhere in the city limits, on film, $1,000 inside. The whole internet has the same clue you do. Nobody has cracked line seven.
Field manual
Ninety percent of the hunt happens in your head. The last ten percent happens in the mud.
Every drop opens with a riddle chain — free for everyone, forever. Theorize solo or argue it out in the city channel with a thousand other obsessives. Difficulty is the only gatekeeper.
the race starts at your deskSolved it? Go. Every cache is hidden — never buried — in a marked, official drop.fun container, daylight-claimable, in places you're allowed to be. Speed wins. Shovels not required.
touch grass, professionallyOpen the app at the spot — a geo-ping within 30 meters plus your find video locks the claim. The cache is yours. Its story — where it hid, who cracked it, how long it survived — follows it forever.
no clip, no legendThe Journey Bounty. Film your whole hunt — the solving, the travel, the find — post it with the drop tag, and we pay you cash on top of whatever's in the cache. The treasure is the prize. The story is the job.
Unsolved · Unfound · Unforgotten
Hunts that outlived everyone who tried. They're still out there. The riddles are still free. Bring a flashlight and some humility.
"Forgive me — I made the key before I made the door."
"Six of them are lying. The seventh never lands."
"Every address on this street is wrong by exactly one."
"Line seven: 'I am crowned each morning by people who never see me.'"
The other leaderboard
Hunters get the glory. Buriers get the infamy. Devious clues and great treasure build a name people fear on the map.
Burier's bond$100
Register your drop with a one-take, geo-tagged video of the item and the hide. Run a clean hunt and most of the bond comes back. Stage one, and you lose the bond, your rep, and your account.
Cafés · shops · brandsFoot traffic, guaranteed
Hide a cache at your venue and watch a hundred hunters walk through your door in a weekend — filming the whole time. We handle the riddle, the container, and the chaos. You handle the espresso.