'Treasure hunter' finds $200,000 prize at Colorado diner, hunt for $1.2 million prize begins

"Find the lamp, change your life," reads the opening text on the Treasure Games website, with a family recently finding a reward worth $200,000 in Colorado as part of the company's most recent challenge.

Treasure Games has a goal of "spreading more wealth to more people around the world," hosting nationwide scavenger hunts that involve participants solving clues that lead to a prize.

Most recently, a treasure hunter from Fort Collins found a reward worth $200,000 behind a well-known diner in Colorado Springs.

According to local news source Fox 21, Fernie Martinez and his daughters used clues from a cryptic poem to narrow down the location of the treasure to Olympic City, USA, making multiple trips from their home in northern Colorado to search for the prize.

The prize was ultimately found by Fernie on his fourth trip to the city, locked in a utility box behind King's Chef Diner's purple castle location on East Costilla Street.

In addition to getting a prize of $200,000, Fernie was also given $10,000 to disperse to charities and causes.

The Colorado Springs find wasn't the last of the Treasure Games treasure, either, with the company planning to continue hosting similar searches. Currently, there's a hunt for a prize worth $1.2 million that's hidden somewhere in the American South.

The Treasure Games hosts their challenges in ten different regions around the country, making it possible for most Americans to find a hunt that's within driving distance.

Learn more about the Treasure Games and sign up to participate here. Read more about how the prize was found on the Fox 21 website here.