Telephone Treasure Trail
Monday 10 to Thursday 13 November 2025
This year’s quiz will consist of one daytime and three evening sessions
Visit our Events page for group and clue holder booking
MONDAY (daytime) 2.00pm – 4.00pm
TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY (evening) 7.30pm – 9.30pm
The NWR held its first Telephone Treasure Trail in 1995. 231 groups took part in that first TTT, and it was so successful it turned into an annual event; one of the most popular in the NWR calendar.
A fun, competitive quiz for up to 100 groups each day across four days in November.
Groups attempt to answer a block of 20 clues plus a compulsory web clue which all relate to a hidden theme. Each clue is given out by ‘clueholders’ – NWR members across the UK who are contacted by telephone.
Group and clueholder prize winners will be notified and announced on the website as soon as the host group have completed the marking and verification process.
2024 – Hosted by Beccles group
260 groups took part – 259 Clue Holder volunteers – 143 groups submitted correct answers.
GROUP WINNER : Leicester South
CLUE HOLDER Winner: Donna Wood (Milton Keynes West)
| This is what some of you had to say after last year’s quiz… |
| “Dear National Office team, Beccles NWR and all clue holders. Our Group participated in Monday evening’s telephone trail. Many thanks to everyone involved in organising the annual event. We had great fun, and are always amazed at the logistic behind the event for everything to go so smoothly.” Chineham and Old Basing |
| “A few thoughts about this year’s event. We opted for the afternoon session, many of our members are not fond of venturing out at night! We all enjoyed the quiz, the questions were answered by all participants and the theme caused many of us to remember past holidays on the various islands. I was in charge of phone calls and found it very easy to contact all the clue holders, much better than in previous years, the icing on the cake was no infernal answering machines. Please run the afternoon session next year. I was a clue holder on Wednesday evening, not as busy as previous years but still a delight to speak with members around the country. Please pass on our thanks to the organisers.” Rugby |
| “This was a great afternoon as we combined it with a charity lunch for the food bank. A win win. The quiz was satisfying as it was not too obscure. This quiz is the highlight of our new year.” Halesowen |
| Chandler’s Ford D did the quiz on Tuesday afternoon which worked well for us. There were 14 of us and at times we were very quiet, putting our brains to work! Some clues were easy, for some we had several attempts and three really had us stumped right till the end but got them to loud cheers with minutes to spare! And the answers were so obvious… Good fun. Thank you all. |