0 a game in which the players are given a series of clues (= pieces of information) to direct them to a hidden prize --
1 a game in which the players are given a series of clues (= pieces of information) to direct them to a hidden prize --
His sons hope to wake him up by staging a fake treasure hunt.
So, he had been forced to draw someone else into his treasure hunt.
He awards a prize to anyone who finds a nugget, i.e. a reference to famous jokes: he calls the game treasure hunt.
People who apply for benefits are often sent on the most extraordinary bureaucratic treasure hunt in which they are passed from person to person and office to office.
This is not a treasure hunt.
Now that they have come through that great tribulation, they have given their attention to something in the nature of a treasure hunt; we might call it money grabbing.
This would be a real treasure hunt.
Often there is not an organisation which has been advertising for weeks ahead that they are going to hold a motor cycle or a car treasure hunt.
