Team building activity
Information for organisers
Treasure Hunt York is a great activity for your team-building event, office away day or an activity to bring together remote teams.
We’ve organised hundreds of excellent experiences, catering for groups of 6—200!
How the game works
The game works like a Whatsapp Group chat with a pirate character who leads each team around York. They have to figure out cryptic clues by finding things in the city.
Everyone in a team can access their link on their own phones. They all see each others' messages just like a group chat.
Demo game: Treasure Hunt York
Here’s a demo game (open on your phone):
https://treasurehuntyork.com/demo
Split into teams of 6
For big groups we suggest breaking into teams of up to 6.
Each team should start 5 minutes apart. That way they aren’t on each others' toes but they’ll see each other at any planned breaks along the way.
Duration & breaks
The game takes 1½–2½ hours depending on breaks.
We recommend planning in a break at one of York’s excellent venues along the way.
Here’s a map of York showing the full route (no spoilers!):
https://treasurehuntyork.com/route
Start and end points
The game starts at the Observatory in Museum Gardens and takes them on a fixed route that we’ve carefully designed.
It ends at Fossgate.
Make it a competition
Each team gets a score that’s calculated when they’ve finished all the clues.
To get a perfect score, they’d need to get every clue right first time with no hints.
We suggest competing on score rather than time as it’s nicer to ṫake your time rather than rushing.
You can see team scores on your leaderboard:
During the day, you can watch the progress of teams. The leaderboard shows how many clues each team has completed in real-time.
How to book
Pay by card
It costs £9.99 per person (including VAT).
The fastest and easiest way is to book online and pay by card.
You’ll get all your games and instructions instantly.
We’re flexible: you can add and remove people right up until the day before the event.
Pay by invoice
If you haven’t finalised numbers, you can request a quote and pay later by invoice.
If you accept the quote, we’ll create your games and send your instructions.
You can add and remove people right up until the day before the event.
We’ll raise an invoice after the event.
To request a quote, go to our booking page, enter your provisional date and numbers, then scroll to the bottom.
You allocate teams
You’ll get an email with a unique link for each team.
As the organiser, you allocate people into teams and give the links to the people in each team.
Need help?
Get in touch and we’ll sort you out.
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Great team building activity
I did this with my team at work and we loved it. It was something a bit different for team building and it is definitely something I would recommend. There were 8 of us in two teams, some people know York and some didn't but everyone had a great time. The questions are well though through and the website is incredibly well done.
Highly recommended
We were a group of 50 who did the treasure hunt around York as a work team building activity. Everyone had a great time, the clues were a mix of easier ones and harder ones. We split into groups of 6 and set off 5 or so minutes apart from each other, the pressure of the next group catching up with you added to the fun. Lots of York based people remarked on how many new little alleyways they’d been down as part of the route and those new to York got to see more than just the main streets. The organisers were really helpful in the lead up to our event and the app was easy to use.
