N-Zone Quest is the first treasure-hunt platform to offer genuine hunts organised on a regular basis, open to everyone. The platform hosts several types of hunt:

• Iconic grand hunts: they offer prizes of very high value and generally require buying a support (a book, a board game, a video game, etc.) that contains the puzzles and the various elements needed to solve them.
• Monthly hunts: every month, discover a new hunt set in an original universe. The fastest to solve it can win 1 gram of gold. Their main advantage is that everything needed to solve them is available for free. Only the use of tickets is required to validate a participation and be eligible for the prize.
• Monthly hunts reserved for Nquest+ subscribers: every month, take part in a hunt that is part of an ongoing storyline. As with the standard monthly hunts, everything needed to solve them is available for free. An Nquest+ subscription, along with the use of tickets, is however required to validate a participation and claim the 1 gram of gold prize.
• InstaQuest instant hunts: shorter, more dynamic hunts run live on social media. A cache is filmed and then shared as a video: it is up to you to spot its location, get there as fast as possible and recover the treasure before the other participants. No ticket, no answer to submit, collect the prize directly out in the field.

An N-Zone Quest treasure hunt is a treasure-hunt-style adventure made of puzzles and clues that gradually lead you to:

• A “written” solution to submit that lets you win the prize if you are the first to have it validated.
• A cache in the real world containing the prize, or an item that lets you claim the hunt's actual prize.

Every treasure hunt is independent and does not require solving other hunts to reach its own solution. You can start any treasure hunt with no prerequisites.

It is possible that one day cross-over treasure hunts will be offered, but any dependency on other hunts will be made explicit in their presentation.

Yes. We are committed to having the prize of each of our hunts pre-funded and secured for the winner.

Gram-of-gold prizes from the monthly hunts have already been won by many players, who have also shared it on Discord and other networks. The treasures of the grand hunts have already been shown at trade shows and various public events.

Every treasure is real and is prepared before the hunt launches.

When the prize is obtained directly there is nothing to do, you have already won.

When it involves validating an answer message, you have to wait for confirmation of its validity. You are then contacted again so you can provide your solving method / the steps you took to solve the puzzle, along with your contact details if your solution is correct. You receive the prize straight to your home, at the address you provided, together with your treasure.

When the location of a hunt is discovered: if there is nothing there, your solution may be wrong or you may have arrived too late.

If there is a replica of the treasure or a message, simply follow the victory-claim recommendations found in the cache to claim your prize.

Yes. Many winners have already claimed prizes.

As for the hunts, once designed by the author they are handed to a verifier along with a partial description of how to solve the puzzles. The verifier completes the entire hunt on their own, and adjustments are made if the difficulty is too high or if some elements are judged too random or not implied by the elements provided in the hunt. Every puzzle is designed so it can be solved using only the clues provided and your own reasoning.