Company Outing Scavenger Hunt: Ideas and Tasks

A scavenger hunt works for a company outing because it mixes people who normally sit at different desks and gives them a shared task without forcing anyone to perform. Teams walk to GPS points, solve a puzzle or complete a small challenge, and move on. You need a route of 8 to 10 locations near the office, one smartphone per team and about an hour to write the tasks. Keep the walking distance under 3 km so people in normal work shoes can join, and mix quick knowledge questions with physical and creative tasks so every team member has something to contribute. Plan the finish at a place where you can sit down for drinks and results.

At a glance

At a glance
Group size	8-40 colleagues in teams of 4-6
Duration	60-120 minutes
Age	Adults, all fitness levels
Where	Around the office, city centre or business park
Preparation	45-60 minutes

Tasks you can use right away

Tasks you can use right away
No.	Task	How it works
1	Company trivia at the front door	At the first point, teams answer five questions about the company: founding year, number of locations, name of the first client. Answers must be typed in before the next location unlocks.
2	Team photo with a stranger	Teams take a group photo that includes someone who does not work at the company, with that person holding something from the team. Upload the photo to complete the task.
3	Human letters	Using only their bodies, the team forms the company's initials or a word from the brand name and photographs it from above or from a distance. Every team member must be in the shot.
4	Count and calculate	At a square or street, teams count something visible on site, such as lampposts, benches or bike racks, then multiply by a number given in the app. The result is the code for the next clue.
5	Colleague guessing game	Before the outing, collect one unexpected fact per colleague. At this point, teams see five facts and must match each to the right person. One point per correct match.
6	Sixty-second pitch	Teams record a one-minute video pitching a made-up product that combines two items they find on the spot, such as a bench and a coffee cup. Filmed in one take on the team phone.
7	Silent line-up	Without speaking, the team lines up in order of years at the company, then photographs the row. The organiser checks the order later against the employee list.
8	Pocket inventory	The app lists ten everyday items: a receipt, a paperclip, a coin from before 2010, a hair tie. Teams photograph everything they can gather from their own pockets and bags within three minutes.

Turn this into your own hunt

Tips for the day

Mix the teams yourself instead of letting people choose; put colleagues from different departments together and keep managers spread across teams.

Add a time limit to each task and let the app show it, so one difficult question does not hold a team up for twenty minutes.

Test the route on foot the day before at the same time of day; a point in front of a café is fine at 10:00 but crowded at 17:00.

Give one bonus task that runs the whole time, such as spotting the company colour in the streets, so slower teams can still catch up on points.

Send the photo tasks straight to a shared screen at the finish and go through them together; that takes ten minutes and works as the closing moment.

Frequently asked questions

Any number, as long as you work in teams of 4 to 6. With more than 25 people, stagger the start by five minutes per team or let teams begin at different points on the route so nobody queues at the same location.

No. You can set the hunt so that each location unlocks only when a team is physically there, in any order. Give each team a different starting point and they will spread out naturally.

Assign points per task and let the app tally them. Photo tasks are judged afterwards by the organiser, so add those points during the drinks and announce the winner then.

One phone per team is enough. Only the team captain needs the hunt open; everyone else just joins in with the tasks. That also stops people from staring at their own screens.

Yes. A route of 8 to 10 points within a 1.5 km radius of the office is plenty. Start and finish at your own building or a nearby café so nobody needs transport.

Count 15 minutes for briefing and team formation, 60 to 90 minutes for the hunt itself and 20 minutes for scoring and results. Two to two and a half hours in total, which fits between lunch and drinks.