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Corporate Team Building Scavenger Hunts
SmartHunts® are a must-do team building event for corporate groups meeting in a new city or location. Our engaging, active corporate scavenger hunts boost team collaboration, leadership skills, and employee engagement. They utilize text messaging, audio, video, FaceTime®, social media, QR codes, and GPS tracking to produce the coolest team building scavenger hunts ever!
Launched in 2010, our SmartHunts® app has always been on the cutting edge of technology, creating customized, high-tech corporate scavenger hunts. Exclusive to Best Corporate Events, every scavenger hunt we deliver is uniquely designed for each client and tailored to one of 150 cities across the country that they wish to explore.
Our scavenger hunts blend sightseeing, gaming, and team building. Participants use our iPads to navigate landmarks, solve interactive clues, complete tasks, and tackle surprise detour missions while capturing photos and videos along the way. Your team building scavenger hunt experience ends with a high-energy awards ceremony featuring a live-feed slideshow of team photos and videos taken during their adventure, followed by a medal presentation to the winning teams! You also receive access to our proprietary event dashboard, which provides a leaderboard, photos and videos from each group, and a professionally produced highlight video of the entire event. Now, that’s SMART! CHECK IT OUT!
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Corporate Team Building Scavenger Hunts in action
We deliver interactive, high-tech corporate scavenger hunts designed to boost team collaboration. Plan your corporate scavenger hunt today!
Locate & Donate SmartHunt®
Embark on a Locate and Donate SmartHunt®! Teams navigate a custom route on iPads, solving text, photo, and video challenges for points. Uncover a hidden charitable mission as you collect surprise packages. At the end, assemble puzzle pieces to reveal a donation check to your chosen charity! Enjoy a highlight reel and full event dashboard. It’s fun with a cause!
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Amazing Chase SmartHunt®
Unleash your team’s potential with an Amazing Chase SmartHunt®! After a fun icebreaker, teams armed with iPads tackle interactive missions, solve puzzles, and complete photo/video challenges for points. Navigate Road Blocks and Detours to maximize your score. Real-time communication and a live scoreboard amp up the excitement. Get ready for an unforgettable adventure with a highlight video finale!
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City SmartHunt®
Unleash your team’s inner explorer with City Smarthunts®, the ultimate tech-driven scavenger hunt! Work together while exploring with the most advanced team building scavenger hunt on the market. Ready for an unforgettable team-building experience?
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A corporate scavenger hunt sends teams out on a custom route with a list of challenges: find this, photograph that, film your team doing the other. Ours run on iPads through the SmartHunts® app. Every submission is scored live, teams see the leaderboard as they move, and the finale plays on a screen back at your venue.
SmartHunts® is our sister company, the largest corporate scavenger hunt company in America, running hunts since 2010. Every route is built for its city and venue, so the Washington, D.C. hunt and the San Francisco hunt share nothing but the app. Remote teams get their own version on Zoom.
Corporate scavenger hunt formats
City SmartHunt®
The flagship: any city, museum, resort or public space becomes the playing field. Teams pick their mission order for points while the app scores every challenge.
Amazing Chase SmartHunt®
Race format. After an icebreaker forms the teams, iPads carry Amazing Race-style missions with surprise Road Blocks and Detour stations along the route.
Locate & Donate SmartHunt®
A custom route of photo and video challenges with a charitable mission hidden inside. The finale reveals the donation.
Virtual Treasure Hunt Trilogy
For remote teams: The Cave, The Heist and The Treasure, three hosted episodes of 1 to 1.5 hours on Zoom, in teams of 4 to 6 with unlimited players.
How a SmartHunt® runs
- 1. Launch
- A fast icebreaker forms teams of 8 to 10. Each team gets an iPad we provide, loaded with the SmartHunts® app and your custom route. Nothing to install on anyone's phone.
- 2. On the route
- 2 to 2.5 hours of photo and video challenges plus trivia and location missions, for 30 to 1,000+ participants. GPS tracking shows the facilitator where every team is; text messages send surprise Road Blocks to keep teams on their toes.
- 3. Awards ceremony
- Back at your venue, the winning team collects medals while a multimedia slideshow of the hunt they just ran plays on the big screen.
- 4. After the event
- An event dashboard with the final leaderboard, every team's photos and videos, and a professionally edited highlight video.
What's Included
- Gamification
Our proprietary Apps utilizes text messaging, photo, video, built-in Zoom®, QR Codes, social media, and GPS tracking to produce high quality corporate events.
- Customized Experience
Our SmartHunts® App allows us to customize challenges based on your goals and objectives. We highlight your destinations points-of-interest.
- Professional Facilitation
We take pride in the fact that we have the most talented and experienced professional facilitators in the country designing and delivering SmartHunts nationwide.
- Hardware/Software
Hardware: We provide all team iPads®.
Software: The SmartHunts® app is white label & branded for your organization.- Awards Ceremony
All members of the winning team are awarded medals as a multi-media slideshow of the SmartHunt® they just completed is playing on the big screen!
- Event Dashboard
Provides a full leader board, with scoring, photos, and videos from each group and a professionally produced highlight video of the entire event.
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Client Testimonials
Our Foodie SmartHunt was a fun program all around! We liked the fact that all aspects of event felt geared towards team building. The group overall enjoyed the activities very much. It was an enjoyable and delicious program; many thanks to all who assisted!
Jenna
Vibra Healthcare
The best aspect of the program was spending time with coworkers outside work. They enjoyed getting to know one another and learning how to work together. We loved watching the team interact during the icebreaker activity. There was so much energy & excitement in the room. Makes me smile thinking of it today. The team had a great time! Everyone enjoyed the trivia. Very fun, engaging and everyone seemed excited to spend the afternoon with us.
Stephanie
AT&T
Best Team Building experiences to date! Our City SmartHunt was extremely organized. The video challenges on the iPads were really fun and our group loved all the activities. We can’t wait to receive the finish video of the photos and videos you had playing at the end of the event.
Carmen
DCPS
Your team came well prepared and energized for our Locate and Donate Scavenger Hunt. The energy was contagious and they really got the group excited about the activity. It was nice to do something to not only foster team building but also to give back to the community.
Nicole
Biogen Idec Inc.
Russ was a great host! Our team had fun and we even had some feedback of folks saying they wish they could play again and take a different route/try something new.
Sam
DeepCure
FAQs about Scavenger Hunt Team Building Activities
What is a corporate scavenger hunt team building event?
Corporate scavenger hunt team building events are team-based activities involving tasks, clues, and challenges. Teams compete within a set timeframe and designated route using our proprietary SmartHunts® app. They utilize text messaging, audio, video, FaceTime®, social media, QR codes, and GPS tracking to produce the coolest team building scavenger hunts ever!
How do scavenger hunt activities promote teamwork and engagement?
Scavenger hunt activities promote teamwork and engagement by encouraging teams to collaborate, delegate tasks, and strategize together. The format builds communication, trust, and shared problem-solving in a fun and fast-paced activity, which increases engagement. Shared experiences like these are valuable for building stronger team relationships.
What types of challenges or tasks are included in a scavenger hunt?
Scavenger hunts include common task types like finding items, solving riddles, answering trivia, or completing creative challenges. Teams are prompted to complete photo and video tasks, code-breaking, and location-based missions. Challenges can be themed, customized, or tied to company goals.
Can the scavenger hunt be customized to our company?
Yes. Routes are built for your city and venue, the app carries your logo, and the trivia and points of interest can be written around your company or event.
How many people can take part?
30 to 1,000+ in teams of 8 to 10. A 1,450-person Locate & Donate SmartHunt® has been run.
How long does a corporate scavenger hunt take?
2 to 2.5 hours including the launch and the awards ceremony.
Do we need to provide iPads?
No. Teams use iPads with mobile connectivity that come with the program, and nobody installs anything on their own phone. The venue needs a screen and audio at the end location for the awards slideshow.
Can a remote team do a scavenger hunt?
Yes. The Virtual Treasure Hunt Trilogy runs on Zoom in three hosted 1 to 1.5 hour episodes, in teams of 4 to 6 with no cap on players.
Which cities do you run hunts in?
Anywhere in the U.S., with no added travel costs and experience in more than 130 cities.
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