Team building game

The office or the city split into stations, with tasks to solve together. A ready script you can rewrite in your own company's language.

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A team building mystery works because one person cannot finish it. Write the stations so that several heads are needed: someone counts, someone remembers, someone takes the photo. The point is not the competition but that the team arrived somewhere together — and has something to bring up next month.

How to put it together

  1. 1

    Decide the size

    Five to eight people per team works best. With more, run parallel teams on the same mystery but from different starting stations, so the locations do not jam.

  2. 2

    Pick the route and walk it

    Office, park or city centre. Walk it yourself and time the gaps between stations — the number of stations follows from that, not the other way around.

  3. 3

    Mix the task types

    One thinking task, one moving task, one knowledge task, one everyone-speaks task. Four rhythms keep a group awake.

  4. 4

    Write company content

    The stations that land best are about the company: the founding year, the number of countries, who has sat in the same chair longest. They amuse and teach at once.

  5. 5

    Plan the ending

    Put the last station where the programme continues — a restaurant, a terrace. Let the mystery take the team there, not the calendar invite.

Ready-made scripts

Office, 45 minutes, 6 stations

Can be started at the end of the working day without leaving the building. Put the stations in shared spaces where nobody else is disturbed.

  1. 1.Reception — info card with the rules and the team name. Photo task: a group shot in front of the logo.
  2. 2.Meeting room — company quiz: which year did the first office open? (code lock, the year is the code)
  3. 3.Kitchen — task: collect five branded mugs and photograph them in a row.
  4. 4.Corridor — multiple choice: which colleague has been here the longest? Three names.
  5. 5.By the terrace door — word puzzle whose letters spell the next station.
  6. 6.Terrace — closing message, and the place for the toast.

City walk, 2 hours, 8 stations

A city-centre route with 8–10 minutes of walking between stations. Taping QR codes to public property is not always possible — this is where the short codes handed out in an envelope come in.

  1. 1.Start at the office — a text clue that opens the story.
  2. 2.First statue — question: how many steps lead up to it? (the answer is the code)
  3. 3.Café — task: order so that everyone gets a different drink, and photograph it.
  4. 4.Square — multiple choice: which year was the building on the north side finished?
  5. 5.Bookshop — find the oldest edition on the shelves and enter its year.
  6. 6.Bridge — a group photo of the whole team on a timer.
  7. 7.Market — a word puzzle built from the stall names.
  8. 8.Restaurant — the closing station, where the table is already booked.

What to watch for

  • Keep a station under five minutes: in team building the walking and the talking matter more than the puzzle.
  • Say in the rules that the phone is meant to be shared — the goal is not everyone tapping separately.
  • Keep one person out of the game and reachable by phone. Give them the unlock code.
  • Outdoors, always have a rain plan: let the last two stations of a city route be under a roof.
  • Avoid tasks that need physical agility — not everyone can run or crouch.
  • Ask for the team name at the first station, and refer back to it in the closing message.

Put your team building together

The first mystery is free with up to five stations — enough for a 45-minute office round.

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