Your mission: find the following locations using only the clues and hints provided. It’s about a 1 mile walk, all in–a leisurely, 25-minute visual neighborhood street art tour/scavenger hunt. You’ll start up at Los Feliz Blvd and end on Sunset.
What This Is
- A free, self-guided puzzle adventure you play by walking
- Part escape room, part scavenger hunt
- No time pressure, no app required (for now),
What You’ll Need
- This page (printed or on your phone)
- Something for writing down answers (pen, phone)
- An eye for details you’d normally walk past
Once you’ve arrived at each location, do that location’s puzzle. It will give you a part of a code. (Note: photos are decorative and not part of the puzzle.) When you’re done with the hunt, enter the full code here to…
ESCAPE FROM HILLHURST!
WE BEGIN…
#1:
Start at 76 station at Hillhurst & Los Feliz with this clue:
CLUE:
Where rubber drinks air and a pale bird rises.
PUZZLE:
The machine marks the spot. Record its first letter.
CODE: ___
#2
Cross the street and walk down Hillhurst
CLUE:
Where glass meets lava and life grows from stone.
HINT: If you hit Albertson’s, you’ve gone too far!
PUZZLE:
Find the building number. Add the first two digits.
CODE: ___
#3
Now continue down Hillhurst
CLUE:
A wall dreams in pastels of the twin domes watching from above.
HINT: At MOTI? Go back up.
PUZZLE:
The valve on the camouflaged pipe—record its color.
#4
Keep going…
CLUE:
A bearded figure in blue guards a wall of many names.
HINT: If you hit the silver space man, you’ve gone too far!
PUZZLE:
What color sits highest on what the figure holds in his left hand?
CODE: ___
#5
Onward…
CLUE:
Where woven lanterns dangle from gnarled limbs above tables and umbrellas.
HINT: If you’re Home, you’ve gone too far.
PUZZLE:
Say the name aloud—what number do you hear?
CODE: ___
#6
Cross the street at Franklin and continue down…
CLUE:
Find the flag of boot-shaped glory crowning a corner of carbs.
HINT: Is that Green Leaves Vegan across the way? You’ve gone too far.
PUZZLE:
Count the stripes in the flag above.
CODE: ___
#7
Keep going…
CLUE:
Look, but don’t cross–where sharp angles frame a crowd—painted faces and creatures against zig-zag waves.
HINT: If you’re already at Zen Dojo, you missed it!
PUZZLE:
What letter ends the neon word above the door?
CODE: ___
#8
Almost there…
CLUE:
Find the giant bloom that never wilts, captured in crimson geometry.
HINT: CapNCork says hi–but not before you’ve solved this clue!
PUZZLE:
Count the letters in the flower’s name.
CODE: ___
#9
Not too far now…
CLUE:
A black and white fence holds a message—if you catch it at an angle.
HINT: If you get to Castle Body Shop, you’ve got too far!
PUZZLE:
Count the total letters in the message.
CODE:___
#10
At last!
CLUE:
From air and wings to this: a temple of flickering light where signatures live in concrete.
HINT: The buck (and hunt) stop here–at the ticket booth.
PUZZLE:
Fit your hands in Tortuga’s. Record the first letter of the month Danny Trejo cemented his spot in Los Feliz.
CODE: ___
Now, enter your complete code here to ESCAPE FROM HILLHURST!
Want to keep going? This visual hunt will take you down Sunset through a big chunk of Silver Lake. This one takes you on a similar trip on Melrose Ave.
The world is a game. Soon, adventures like these will happen all inside the Scavtopia app. Stay tuned…