A team building scavenger hunt you set up yourself
If you're planning a team day, you want something people will happily join in with, and something you can organize without hiring anyone. Let's Tingo is a team building scavenger hunt you build yourself. You make a bingo board of things to find, everyone on the team gets their own board from the same list, and the first to fill five in a row calls a Tingo.
It works for an offsite in a new city, an afternoon out around the office, or a long lunch with a walk around the neighborhood afterward.
Team building activities built around your day
Pick a game type, tell Let's Tingo you're taking the team out for the afternoon and where you're going, and it builds a list of finds from that: a historic plaque, a food truck, a street musician. Keep the ones that suit your team, reword or trash the rest, and add your own, like the building the company started in or the coffee shop everyone goes to.
In most games, finds are shared, so when anyone spots something, it shows up on every board that has it. Split the team into small groups that walk together, and every group can see what the others just found.
An office scavenger hunt for a regular workday
Not every team day leaves the building. Build a board for the office itself: the whiteboard in the big conference room, the view from the top floor, a desk with a family photo on it. It's a good way for new hires to learn where everything is.
Make it a join-any-time game and it's live the moment the invites go out, so people can join between meetings, halfway through the afternoon, and still play.
A corporate scavenger hunt with photos and a prize
Pick a camera game and every find needs a photo. The photo stays with the find for the whole group to see, so by the end of the day you'll have pictures of the team out together, ready for the next all-hands.
Make it a timed game, set it to end at five on Friday, and whoever has the most Tingos when it ends wins. Name a prize when you set it up, the team buys the winner lunch or first choice of desk after the move, and everyone sees what they're playing for.
Team building activities for adults on a modest budget
There's no facilitator to book and nothing to ship, and plenty of games are free to make, so the budget can go on lunch. Team building activities for adults don't need to be elaborate. What helps most is a reason for people to get out together and talk, and a board of things to find gives them one.
Team building scavenger hunt ideas to get your board started
These are the kind of finds that make a good team building scavenger hunt. Use them, change them, or let Let's Tingo suggest its own from what you tell it. For other occasions, browse more scavenger hunt ideas.
Around the office
- Standing desk
- Whiteboard doodle
- Office plant
- Espresso machine
- Speakerphone
- Team photo
- Birthday cake
- Fire extinguisher
- Vending machine
- Lost umbrella
- Sticky note wall
- Badge reader
Out in the city
- Food truck
- Street musician
- Historic plaque
- Bike courier
- Public art
- Rooftop terrace
- Construction crane
- City bus
- Clock tower
- Pigeon on a statue
- Dog in a bag
- Farmers market
At the offsite
- Lake view
- Fire pit
- Hiking trail
- Picnic table
- Name tag
- Flip chart
- Lawn games
- Hammock
- Golf cart
- Group photo
- Kayak
- Porch swing
Get your team day ready
Build the board the week before, and send the link with the calendar invite. The same game works for icebreaker games at the next company conference, an adult scavenger hunt on a weekend with friends, and an indoor scavenger hunt when the weather keeps everyone in.
Joining a game is always free, in the app or in a browser. Plenty of games are free to make, too.