Team Building Treasure Hunts & Scavenger Hunts
A treasure hunt team building event sends your team out across a city or venue to crack clues, unlock GPS challenges and race a live leaderboard. It is one of the most-booked team building formats we run: our Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt is booked more often than almost any other activity on our roster.
Funktion Events has run more than 10,000 team building events since 2007, and we run treasure hunts and scavenger hunts in any UK city or at your own venue. Pick a self-run smartphone app for a great-value day, or have one of our event managers run it on the day, from £16 per person.
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Activities
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Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt
- Explore your location
- Self-run, start anytime
- Great value, app technology
- Team challenges & puzzles
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Smartphone Pub Treasure Hunt
- Fully organised pub quiz hunt
- Self run - start any time
- Test general pub knowledge
- Hilarious team challenges
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Outdoor Escape Rooms
- Outdoor escape rooms
- Improves problem solving
- Interactive fun host
- Tasks, clues, Immersive challenges
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GPS: Spy School
- Spy themed challenges
- Self-run – start any time
- Great value, latest technology
- GPS and image recognition
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The Ultimate Treasure Hunt
- The best of the best
- Exciting trivia & quizzes
- Huge variety of challenges
- GPS smartphone app
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Smartphone Christmas Treasure Hunt
- Pub quiz & bar crawl in one
- Self-run, so start anytime
- Great value, app technology
- Perfect for Christmas parties
Treasure Hunt & Scavenger Hunt Team Building Activities
Each one runs for about 90 to 120 minutes, works for a dozen people or several hundred, and can be self-run on the app or managed by our team. Here is what your team takes on:
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| Activity | What you do | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt | Explore your city in small teams, activating GPS hotspots to unlock clues, puzzles and challenges | An all-round day out of the office |
| Smartphone Pub Treasure Hunt | A pub-trivia hunt and bar crawl in one, with team challenges between each stop | A relaxed team social with drinks |
| The Ultimate Treasure Hunt | The full-feature hunt: team captains, a live leaderboard and a mix of scavenger and trivia challenges | Large, competitive groups |
| GPS: Spy School | A spy-mission theme using GPS, codes and image recognition to unmask the mole in your ranks | A strong theme and problem-solving |
| Outdoor Escape Rooms | An outdoor escape-room hunt, solving tasks and clues across several levels | Outdoor problem-solving |
| Smartphone Christmas Treasure Hunt | A festive hunt that blends a pub quiz and a bar crawl for the party season | Christmas parties |
Every hunt scales from a single team to several hundred people split across dozens of teams, and we can theme or route any of them around your city, your brand or a specific outcome. Not seeing the format you had in mind? Tell us what you want and we will build a bespoke treasure hunt around it.
Team Building Scavenger Hunts
A team building scavenger hunt works like our treasure hunts but leans into collecting: teams photograph, film and complete set tasks against the clock rather than only following a route. Every hunt is built around soft skills, so your team is problem-solving, communicating and dividing up the work without clocking that it is team building. The Ultimate Treasure Hunt is our most popular team scavenger hunt, with GPS hotspots to find and a live leaderboard to chase, from £16 per person.
GPS Treasure Hunts, Run in Any City
Our GPS treasure hunts use a smartphone app to guide teams between digital hotspots across a real city, with a live map showing where every team is and a leaderboard updating in real time. There is no kit to carry and nothing to print: teams play on their own smartphones, or on iPads we can provide, so the same hunt runs in London, Manchester, Glasgow or any town you choose. It is the format most companies pick when they want everyone out exploring the city, without the logistics of a physical course.
Why Choose a Corporate Treasure Hunt?
A corporate treasure hunt gets the whole team moving, talking and competing in the same afternoon, which is why it is one of the formats companies come back to. It suits mixed groups because nobody needs to be sporty or outgoing to take part: everyone contributes something, whether that is local knowledge, quick thinking or the nerve to do the daft challenge. And because it runs on phones in a real city, it doubles as a social, so most teams finish in a pub or bar with the leaderboard settled and plenty to talk about.
It also flexes to the occasion. The same format works as the energiser slot in a conference, the activity half of an away day, or a full Christmas social, and it scales from one small team to a whole department split across the city. That range is why treasure hunts are one of the formats teams ask for by name.
What Every Team Building Event Includes
- We come to you – our event team travels to your office or venue anywhere in the UK, with all the kit and setup.
- A dedicated event manager – one point of contact who plans the day with you and runs it on the day.
- Free venue finding – if you need a space, we source the right one for your group size and location at no extra cost.
- Fully insured and ABTA-bonded (Y6501) – every event is covered and your booking is protected.
Teams We've Run Events For
Treasure hunts run outdoors and around the city, so pair them with our outdoor team building activities for the warmer months, or our indoor team building activities if the forecast turns. Want a specific city? See where we run team building near you, or browse all our team building activities in one place.
“On a treasure hunt you get the quiet ones coming alive, because someone always turns out to know the back streets or the answer nobody else has. Tell me your city, your numbers and whether you want it self-run or fully managed, and I'll pick the right hunt and sort the route. You get everyone out of the office, a bit of competition, and usually a drink at the end.”
Izzie
Corporate Event Manager
How to Choose a Treasure Hunt
Start with what you want out of the day:
- A classic city day out: the Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt.
- A team social with drinks: the Smartphone Pub Treasure Hunt.
- A big, competitive group: The Ultimate Treasure Hunt.
- A strong theme and a puzzle to solve: GPS: Spy School.
- To be outdoors and hands-on: Outdoor Escape Rooms.
- A Christmas social: the Smartphone Christmas Treasure Hunt.
Tell us your city, your date and your group size and we will match the right hunt and organise everything from the route to the venue.
Treasure Hunt Team Building FAQs
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Planning a treasure hunt or scavenger hunt for your team? Tell us your city, group size and date and we will send tailored ideas and a quote, usually within 30 minutes.