Your mission: find the following locations using only the clues and hints provided. It’s less than a mile walk, all in–a leisurely, 20-minute visual neighborhood street art tour/scavenger hunt. You’ll start at the northeast corner of Melrose and Curson (American Vintage), head east, and end up on LaBrea–at a good spot for a bite (at least for carnivores..and L.A. food-history-lovers).
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
1
Starting at 7575 Melrose…
CLUE: Hollywood ghosts hover over vintage windows. Find the one wearing her initials.
PUZZLE: Record her first initial.
CODE: ___
2
Head away from the ocean, looking up side streets…
CLUE: Gold, wings, and faces larger than life. One built an empire through motion, the other through words.
HINT: If you hit the Snake Pit, you’ve gone too far!
PUZZLE: Find the symbol on the green sack.
CODE: ___
3
Keep going, look both ways when you cross Gardner…
CLUE: Four suits, one hand, arching over the street like an old Vegas promise.
HINT: Tacos and sushi? You’ve gone too far.
PUZZLE: What letter is shoveled in the spade?
CODE: ___
4
Stroll for a few blocks…
CLUE: Off the main drag, a watchful flyer guards a parking lot where humans come for a wake-up.
HINT: Hit Platinum? You’ve gone too far.
PUZZLE: How many eyes does it show?
CODE: ___
5
Keep going. This one’s closer by…
CLUE: Find the big, sad-eyed infant Jedi perched on a black corner wall.
PUZZLE: What’s the letter he’s perched on?
HINT: A big vase of flowers says, “You missed it!”
CODE: ___
6
Onward! Turn left at the deco spire…
CLUE: A flightless bird sends <3.
HINT: Lalalookup!
PUZZLE: How many golden wishes float there?
CODE: ___
7
Continue on…watch where you’re going!
CLUE: At the corner where the banded pole stands, something permanent lives underfoot.
HINT: If you’re getting educated, you’ve gone too far!
PUZZLE: Unbox the second letter.
CODE: ___
8
A hop-skip-and-jump up Formosa…
CLUE: A box explodes in color at sidewalk level.
HINT: Homes? Turn around.
PUZZLE: A name runs down the side. What’s the last letter?
CODE: ___
9
Back up Melrose…
CLUE: Where magic lives in the hole, a tophatted figure works his spell.
HINT: LaBrea is the end of the line.
PUZZLE: Add the trophies on his necklace plus the pins at the end of his staff.
CODE: ___
10
There’s more of the same color nearby…
CLUE: At the legendary stand, four dogs wait for faces. Find where you’d fit yours.
HINT: The other kind of dogs–head around back.
PUZZLE: What color shoes does the tallest one wear?
CODE: ___
Now, enter your complete code here to ESCAPE FROM MELROSE!
Want to keep going? Try this escape walk in Los Feliz.
The world is a game. Soon, adventures like these will happen all inside the Scavtopia app. Stay tuned…