When the World Market Scavenger Hunt happens, hightail it there. It's a twice-a-year scavenger hunt store event where eagle-eyed shoppers can win prizes up to $100 (one of our favorite World Market shopping secrets). We think the next hunt will start on March 10, 2025.
World Market shoppers are eligible to win $20, $50, or $100 off their purchase if they find small signs featuring the specified golden object in stores — sometimes it's a Golden Elf, Golden Unicorn, you get the gist. There are two chances to win each day — once from store opening until 3 p.m., then again from 4 p.m. - store closing.
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The World Market Scavenger Hunt is a twice-a-year, 3-week hidden coupon event.
For three weeks in the spring and during the holiday season, shoppers scour the aisle of Cost Plus World Market to find specially marked cardboard signs during the Scavenger Hunt. Each hunt has its own theme; during the November 2024 event, shoppers are searching for Golden Elves.
Every day during the hunt, shoppers can find one of eight hidden signs, for a chance to win $20, $50, or $100 off their purchase — at all 241 World Market stores.
KCL predicts the next World Market Scavenger Hunt will kick off March 10, 2025.
World Market hasn't announced the dates for their next Scavenger Hunt yet, but we usually see it in the spring, around March or April, and then again in November. The hunt happens twice a day, from store opening until 3 p.m., then again from 4 p.m. until store closing.
Expect the Golden sign to be hidden behind items, like this Golden Egg from the spring hunt.
The daily scavenger hunt clue is posted in store and on the World Market website. It can be anything. When I found a Golden Egg in spring 2024, the clue was "find it settled next to something made of metal." Vague much? These will be nestled on shelves and behind items, not necessarily out in the open.
Two things to know about the hunt: there are sprinters and there are those who saunter.
You'll find that when the hunt starts, some people act like they're on the Amazing Race. They're supercharged moving through the store. Others are more methodical in their approach. I'm not saying one strategy is better than the other, just know you'll see both types of competitors.
Prior years’ World Market Scavenger Hunt themes:
2024: Golden Elf (Fall)
2024: Golden Egg (Spring)
2023: Golden Unicorn
2022: Golden Gnome
2021: Golden Sleigh
2020: Skipped due to COVID-19
2019: Golden Christmas Cracker
2018: Golden Bell
2017: Golden Llama
The scavenger hunt has eight winners per day per store.
Every day during the promotion period, each Cost Plus World Market store hides a total of eight Golden Eggs during two separate game periods. They hide four eggs during the first game period (open to 3 p.m.) and four eggs during the second game period (4 p.m. to close).
KCL TIP: If any of the four Golden Eggs aren't located by 3 p.m. during the first game period, they’ll remain hidden for players to find during the 4 p.m. to close window.
You can win up to $100 off a $100 purchase.
The prizes for finding a Golden Elf vary depending on your luck, but all are in the form of World Market Rewards that get cashed to your rewards account (yes, you have to be a World Market Rewards member, but it’s simple and free to join). It’s important to note that the Rewards you win are only valid for use that same day.
Each day there are at most six $20 off $20 rewards available, two $50 off $50 rewards, and two $100 off $100 rewards. But according to the fine print, there won’t be a $50 or $100 reward available every day of the event. There are two $100 rewards available per location for three days of the promotion period, and two $50 rewards available per location for 20 days of the promotion period. Bummer.
When you find a Golden sign, run to a World Market associate to let them know.
Once you found the Golden Elf, you’ll want to grab it and find an associate right away. You don’t want someone else to take it from you. When you show the elf to an associate, they’ll scan a coupon and you’ll enter your phone number at the register to link your World Market Rewards account to the coupon.
Just know that if you win once, you can’t win again through the entire promotion period — they track it with your World Market Rewards account.
Head straight to the register when you find a Golden Elf sign.
No time to waste, people. Take your Golden Elf, Egg, Unicorn, Sleigh — whatever it might be during that season's hunt — and head straight to the register to secure your prize. You have to use the certificate the same day you win it; otherwise, it expires.
Use their daily hints to get clues about where to look.
You can find daily hints to where the Golden Eggs are hiding when you check the World Market store events page, join World Market Rewards, or follow the World Market Facebook or Instagram pages.
If you’re already a World Market Rewards member, you’ll get the daily clue in your email. If you’re looking on their social media pages, the clue will only get shared in their Stories. (To view their story, visit the social media page and click the circle with their logo. It should have a colored border around the logo if a new story you haven’t seen is available.)
In addition to all of those methods, you can find the hint right in the store. It’ll be on a big sign right when you walk in, so you can’t miss it. That sign will also tell you how many Golden Unicorns are still left for you to find.
World Market Golden Rules
The not-so-fun stuff … the rules. Here are a few rules that we thought were important to point out:
You can only win once throughout the entire game period. So if you won on Nov. 1, you couldn’t win again later in the month.
Prizes are issued in the form of World Market Rewards that need to be redeemed the same day you win.
If there’s a tie or multiple people arrive at a hidden Golden Sign location at the same time, the store associate may perform a coin toss or random drawing to break the tie.
Employees and their families aren’t eligible to win.
You can’t use the Rewards prize on Instant Pot/Instant Brands, Wüsthof, alcoholic beverages, gift cards, One-of-a-Kind Rugs, or Sackcloth and Ashes Blankets.
Rewards can’t be combined with other coupons and offers.
If you return an item purchased with the Rewards prize, you’ll forfeit the discount.
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