Smartphone Pub Treasure Hunt Team Building
What is the Smartphone Pub Explorer Event?
Get the team out and about with the unique smartphone pub treasure hunt team building experience. No matter what city you want your team away day to be in, add this out-of-the-box treasure hunt to your team agenda and explore what the city has to offer in a totally different way. Completely self-run, you can choose how you spend your time with this activity, whether you want to kick things off in the morning and spend a lot of time socialising in the pubs or you’d rather stay outside and enjoy all the places around your city of choice.
What’s Included
- At the event, your group will be divided into smaller teams of 4-6 participants.
- These teams will compete against each other to spark some healthy competition.
- Head to various GPS locations with nearby bars
- You choose the pub/bar within the area to visit to complete the challenges
- Name your team & take selfies
- Answer pub trivia questions
- Unlock clues, puzzles and challenges
- Live scoreboard makes it competitive and fun
- Pub Trivia includes Sport, History, Geography, Science & Nature, Entertainment & General Knowledge
- See game play map are here
- Each participant will use their own smartphone to download the app and join in
- Duration: approximately 2 hours
- Add Custom Questions - Add up to 8 multiple choice questions. These can be about your brand, business, share fun facts, anything - Ask for price
- Add Remote Host - Add a facilitator to give a remote briefing, support during the event and final wrap-up via video link - Ask for price
Event Format
Before you begin the activity, everyone will have the chance to download the bespoke game app on their smartphone devices. Then, if you’ve opted for a remote facilitator, they will give a brief explanation on how the day will run before you split up into smaller teams of 4-6 people.
When the activity begins, each team will get to use the interactive map to find and head to the first hotspot in the area. Here, you will be issued with trivia questions and exciting photo/video challenges where you’ll need to bring out your teamwork and problem-solving skills in order to score the maximum points on offer.
The app includes a live scoreboard and a chat room so you can communicate between teams. By the end of the experience, the team with the highest score on the leaderboard will be named the winners of the day.
What group sizes is the Smartphone Pub Treasure Hunt ideal for?
The smartphone pub treasure hunt us a truly flexible activity, meaning it’s ideal for nearly all group sizes. We’ve hosted these events for groups as small as 6 and companies as large as 250 participants.
What are the benefits of the Smartphone Pub Explorer?
This format of activity is beneficial for companies who want a light-hearted, informal activity that will take their staff out of the office. The friendly competition alongside a bit of fresh air is a simple yet effective way to motivate as many employees as you need. The general knowledge questions and fun challenges are tried and tested to influence team bonding as each group works towards one goal.
Extra Info
The App is designed for Android phones and tablets, the iPhone and the iPad. It will not work on Windows phones or Blackberry.
There are also minimum versions of the operating system that are required for the App so if you can't see it in the store it probably means your phone isn't compatible.
The minimum device system requirements are as follows…
- iOS Version 10.0 and above,
- Android Version 4.4 and above,
- Whatever phone or tablet you use, it will also need a data plan, a compass and have GPS activated.
- A fully charged smartphone will be required per team.
Whilst the App will normally work on other unrecommended Android & iOS devices, there may be times where users experience issues with certain areas such as poor battery life, GPS signal or small issues in the game. In particular, you may have issues if running the App on an old phone.
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Reviews
Everyone had a great night and for next years events, we will definitely consider doing this again with Funktion Events.
We will definitely be doing this again
The only issue we had, was a team of 4 but none of them were able to play. They all had the app on their phone and they could see some questions, but all 4 phones wouldn’t let them answer. There was no option to type etc.
However, all other teams had fun
We would definitely love to do something similar again.