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100+ Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Teams and Friends

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The big list. Whether you're planning a corporate offsite, a birthday weekend, an orientation day or a city-wide bar crawl, you'll find a scavenger hunt idea here you can steal as-is or remix into your own.

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Team-building scavenger hunt ideas

Built for coworkers, remote teams and offsites. These ideas reward collaboration, creative problem-solving and a little healthy rivalry.

  1. 01Snap a team photo recreating a famous album cover
  2. 02Record a 15-second elevator pitch for a fake product the team just invented
  3. 03Collect a selfie with someone from every department
  4. 04Find an object in the office older than the youngest teammate
  5. 05Build the tallest free-standing tower from supplies on one desk
  6. 06Interview a stranger about the best advice they ever got
  7. 07Film a 30-second commercial for your company in another language
  8. 08Get a high-five from someone wearing the same color shirt as you
  9. 09Find three objects that together tell a story about your team
  10. 10Recreate your team's logo using only food

Friend group + party scavenger hunt ideas

Perfect for birthdays, bachelor / bachelorette parties, sleepovers and weekend hangs. Equal parts silly and competitive.

  1. 01Get a stranger to sing happy birthday to a teammate
  2. 02Find someone with the same first name as you and take a photo together
  3. 03Photograph a license plate that spells a real word
  4. 04Trade a small item with a stranger and document the trade
  5. 05Find a dog wearing clothes and get the owner's permission for a photo
  6. 06Recreate a meme in a public place
  7. 07Buy something using only coins
  8. 08Find a handwritten note in the wild and photograph it
  9. 09Convince a barista to draw something custom in your latte foam
  10. 10Get a group photo with a street performer

City-wide and urban scavenger hunt ideas

Use your whole neighborhood as the board. These work great for bar crawls, downtown weekends and tourist days at home.

  1. 01Photograph a piece of street art and find the artist's tag
  2. 02Visit three coffee shops and rank their oat milk
  3. 03Find a building with a year carved into the facade
  4. 04Ride a form of transport you've never taken in this city
  5. 05Find a hidden plaque or historical marker
  6. 06Order the weirdest item on a menu and review it
  7. 07Photograph a rooftop view from a building you've never been in
  8. 08Find a bookstore and buy a stranger a $5 book
  9. 09Catch a sunrise or sunset from a named landmark
  10. 10Find a mural that's taller than your whole team standing on each other's shoulders (don't actually stack)

Classroom and campus scavenger hunt ideas

Low-cost, high-energy challenges for students, orientation week, summer camps and after-school clubs.

  1. 01Find a book in the library published the year you were born
  2. 02Photograph the oldest tree on campus
  3. 03Get a faculty member to define a word in a made-up language
  4. 04Find a poster for an event happening this week and attend 5 minutes of it
  5. 05Locate every emergency exit on one floor
  6. 06Photograph a hidden detail in a campus building most people walk past
  7. 07Interview a senior about one regret and one win
  8. 08Find a quote written somewhere on a wall and identify its source
  9. 09Build a study snack with only vending-machine items
  10. 10Recreate a textbook cover with people instead of objects

Photo + video scavenger hunt ideas

Camera-roll gold. Award bonus points for creativity, framing and laughter caught in the background.

  1. 01A jumping photo with all four feet off the ground
  2. 02A perfectly symmetrical photo of a building
  3. 03A slow-motion video of someone biting into something crunchy
  4. 04A photo where forced perspective makes a teammate look tiny
  5. 05A boomerang of a high-five with a stranger
  6. 06A group selfie with at least 6 strangers smiling
  7. 07A 10-second hype reel for your team
  8. 08A photo of a reflection that hides the photographer
  9. 09A time-lapse of a sunset, sandwich, or sketch
  10. 10A photo of handwriting that says today's date

Indoor + rainy-day scavenger hunt ideas

When the weather flops, the hunt continues. These ideas work inside a house, an office or a single apartment.

  1. 01Find something older than everyone playing combined (in years)
  2. 02Find a snack expired by less than 7 days
  3. 03Build a fort big enough for the whole team to fit inside
  4. 04Recreate a famous painting using household items
  5. 05Find five things that are exactly the same color
  6. 06Make a 30-second song using only sounds from one room
  7. 07Find a book with a character that shares your name
  8. 08Stage a dramatic argument over the last cookie and film it
  9. 09Find the most embarrassing photo on the homeowner's fridge
  10. 10Invent a cocktail (or mocktail) and give it a name

Charity + give-back scavenger hunt ideas

Turn competition into community. Pair these with a donation match for extra impact.

  1. 01Compliment 10 strangers and log their reactions
  2. 02Pick up a bag of litter from a park
  3. 03Leave a positive sticky note in 5 public spots
  4. 04Donate a book to a Little Free Library
  5. 05Pay for the coffee of the person behind you
  6. 06Write a thank-you note to a local small business
  7. 07Bring a snack to a public service worker
  8. 08Help someone carry something heavy
  9. 09Volunteer for 15 minutes at a community event you find live
  10. 10Record a video shouting out a local nonprofit

Wild card + chaos scavenger hunt ideas

Save these for the final round or for an unhinged bonus list. High effort, high reward.

  1. 01Get a TV anchor to wave at your team on camera
  2. 02Convince a stranger to swap shoes for a photo
  3. 03Get into the background of someone's livestream
  4. 04Photograph a celebrity (real or impersonator) holding a sign for your team
  5. 05Crash a flash mob — or start one
  6. 06Find someone with the same birthday as a teammate
  7. 07Get a stamp, signature or autograph from a local business owner
  8. 08Convince a wedding party to pose with your team for 10 seconds
  9. 09Find a tattoo of something your team voted on at the start of the hunt
  10. 10Get a chef to plate a dish in the shape of your team name

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