---
id: 612-poap-challenge
title: 612 POAP Challenge
summary: A summer 2025 scavenger hunt of 31 Minneapolis location POAPs, drawn in the spirit of the 612 Series.
collection: Historical projects
status: archived
url: https://612.poapchallenge.com/
started: 2025-05-31
ended: 2025-09-01
topics:
  - poap
  - crypto
  - play
sources:
  - kind: website
    url: https://612.poapchallenge.com/
    role: website
    sitemap: https://612.poapchallenge.com/sitemap.xml
    feed: https://612.poapchallenge.com/feed.xml
  - kind: website
    url: https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/31/poap-challenge-collect-them-now.html
    role: reference
connections:
  - to: poap2rss
    label: shared its claims through
    detail: From July 2025 the challenge site posted every claim automatically, using POAP2RSS feeds merged with rssrssrssrss.com and imported into a Micro.blog account.
    source: https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/07/06/with-the-help-of-poaprss.html
  - to: airport-poap-rally
    label: led to
    detail: I enjoyed the challenge so much I set up poapchallenge.com for more of them, registered poaprally.com, and used the same feed setup to track the Airport POAP Rally.
    source: https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/12/26/airport-poap-rally-website.html
    kind: lineage
page: https://thingelstad.xyz/things/612-poap-challenge/
---

# 612 POAP Challenge

A summer 2025 scavenger hunt of 31 Minneapolis location POAPs, drawn in the spirit of the 612 Series.

The 612 POAP Challenge was a citywide scavenger hunt that ran from the end of May through Labor Day 2025. [How to Play](https://612.poapchallenge.com/how-to-play/) listed 31 Minneapolis locations in five themed categories, each with a location POAP that could only be claimed in the POAP app within 100 meters of the spot. Two hidden easter-egg locations were left for the curious. Completing a category earned a Category Collector POAP, and collecting all 31 earned the top award.

I [announced it on 2025-05-31](https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/31/poap-challenge-collect-them-now.html). It joined two things I loved: geocaching, and the [612 Series](https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/04/05/complete-collection-of.html) of Minneapolis NFTs by Erik Halaas and StayNftyMpls, which I had collected in full; I had [interviewed Erik](https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/01/15/interview-with-series.html) in 2024. Six days earlier I had made [my first location POAP](https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/25/i-created-my-very-first.html), at our family’s Charlie Brown Tree, and wanted to build something with the new feature. The challenge’s tokens were illustrated in the spirit of the 612 Series. “I love that I was able to create an entire activity on the POAP platform.”

The challenge had its own Buttondown mailing list, and from July its site, hosted on Micro.blog, posted each claim as it happened through [POAP2RSS](https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/07/06/with-the-help-of-poaprss.html). The [first Collected Them All! award](https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/07/20/we-have-our-very-first.html) went on 2025-07-20 to @quinntchrest, who [speed ran](https://quinnchrest.com/2025/07/20/poap-challenge.html) the challenge by bike with a friend. The challenge closed as Labor Day ended on 2025-09-01, and the final awards were sent a few days later. The site remains as its record, and the experience led me to set up poapchallenge.com for future challenges.