60 Photo Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Any Group

Updated September 5, 2026 7 min read

Photo clues are the backbone of every good scavenger hunt. They are easy to write, impossible to fake convincingly, and they leave the group with an album at the end. Every item below is a single photo challenge you can drop into a hunt as-is.

Point values are suggested. Give the impossible shots at the bottom the big numbers.

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People

  1. 1.A stranger giving your team a thumbs up (25)
  2. 2.Someone wearing the same color as everyone on your team (50)
  3. 3.A person over 70 and a person under 7 in the same shot, with permission (75)
  4. 4.Your whole team in a single mirror (50)
  5. 5.A stranger holding a sign with your team name (50)
  6. 6.Someone in uniform (25)
  7. 7.A person with a dog, with the dog looking at the camera (50)
  8. 8.Your team recreating a stranger's pose beside them (75)
  9. 9.Someone who shares a first name with a teammate (75)
  10. 10.A stranger who agrees to be in a human pyramid with you (150)

Places

  1. 1.The oldest building you can find, with its date (50)
  2. 2.Your team reflected in a body of water (50)
  3. 3.The highest point you can reach on foot (100)
  4. 4.A door that is a color other than white, black or brown (25)
  5. 5.A street sign with an animal in the name (50)
  6. 6.Your team inside a phone booth, bus shelter or elevator (50)
  7. 7.The smallest shop or restaurant in the area (50)
  8. 8.A staircase with more than 20 steps (25)
  9. 9.A place that has been open since before anyone on your team was born (50)
  10. 10.A public clock showing the correct time (25)

Colors and shapes

  1. 1.Something red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple in one photo (75)
  2. 2.A perfect circle in nature (50)
  3. 3.Three things shaped like triangles (25)
  4. 4.Something the exact color of your team captain's eyes (50)
  5. 5.The word "hint" in the wild (100)
  6. 6.The letters of your team name found on signs, one photo per letter (150)
  7. 7.A shadow that looks like an animal (75)
  8. 8.Something that is exactly one meter long (50)
  9. 9.The number 7 in three different fonts (50)
  10. 10.A rainbow of parked cars, left to right (100)

Creative recreations

  1. 1.A famous painting, recreated with your team (100)
  2. 2.An album cover (100)
  3. 3.A movie poster (100)
  4. 4.A team member's baby photo (75)
  5. 5.The company or school logo, made with bodies (100)
  6. 6.A historical photo, in the same location if possible (150)
  7. 7.A stock photo, as awkward as the real thing (75)
  8. 8.A boy band photo shoot, complete with attitude (75)
  9. 9.A superhero landing (50)
  10. 10.A wedding photo with a stranger officiating (150)

Actions

  1. 1.Everyone on your team mid-air (75)
  2. 2.A planking team member on something unusual (50)
  3. 3.The team forming a letter seen from above (100)
  4. 4.Someone eating something they have never tried before (50)
  5. 5.A human wheelbarrow race (75)
  6. 6.Your team's tallest member being carried by the rest (100)
  7. 7.A cartwheel in a public place (50)
  8. 8.Everyone hugging a tree at once (50)
  9. 9.A team member holding the door for ten strangers, counted in the caption (100)
  10. 10.The team doing yoga in a busy place (75)

Nearly impossible

Worth 200 or more. One or two of these decide the winner.

  1. 1.Your team on the local news or a public screen (300)
  2. 2.A photo with a stranger who has been to the same foreign country as your teammate, with proof (200)
  3. 3.The whole team in a stranger's family photo (200)
  4. 4.A selfie with someone whose name is on a building (300)
  5. 5.A photo from the roof of a building, legally (200)
  6. 6.Your team in a limo, boat or helicopter (300)
  7. 7.A stranger performing a magic trick on video (200)
  8. 8.A photo with a twin (both twins) (200)
  9. 9.A stranger who can name all your teammates after one introduction, on video (200)
  10. 10.Every team in the hunt in one photo (300)

Tips for running it

  • •Require that every team member be in every photo unless the clue says otherwise. It stops one person from running the whole hunt.
  • •Photos submitted to Trail of Hints go to the judge panel with a timestamp, so you can reject anything that was taken before the hunt started.

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