MiniScavenge

It’s an online team building activity for virtual, remote and hybrid teams with three main elements that are accessed within a 3D scene of your choosing:

1. A treasure hunt – teams are looking for the answers to some interestingly presented treasure hunt clues.
2. A scavenger hunt – teams are looking for particular items to collect.
3. A series of team puzzles – team members have to work together to solve some challenging – and interesting! – puzzles.

It’s entirely up to you.  Most clients run it for between 45 minutes and 3 hours.  The most typical run times are between one and two hours.  But, like we say, it’s your choice.

As many – or few – as you like!

We’ve had many teams of only 3 people and quite a few of several thousand.  There’s no such thing as a typical MiniScavenge group size!

You can be assured, that however large or small your group is, MiniScavenge is definitely suitable for it.

Your choice.

Most clients run with between 5 and 10 people in a team.  That’s a nice range.  Small enough that every team member is important.  Large enough that there’s likely a nice variety of people within each team.

But if you want fewer or more in a team, that’s ok too.

It can indeed.  Typically the extra cost of this makes this financially justifiable for group sizes of 50 or more people, but any group size can run within a tailored scene!

Tailoring can include:

• Simple 2D imagery on elements such as billboards and posters.
• Small 3D elements such as logos and product placements.
• Larger 3D elements such as retail stores full of your products or branded vehicles?
• New scenes, constructed just for you.  Perhaps a virtual version of your offices?  Or even a full corporate campus?
• … and the treasure hunt clues will be altered to include some or all of your tailored elements for all of the above.

The best way to get a feel for that is to watch the video near the top of the page.

But please do note that we have many different 3D scenes to choose from.  And every one has its own ambience and own set of team challenges to tackle.

No.

Your participants will need access to the Internet and a modern browser (read “anything but Internet Explorer”).  That’s all.

MiniScavenge is designed for a laptop or desktop.  Smaller devices do not have the screen real estate to offer a great experience.  Some scenes require a mouse or equivalent, such as a mousepad.

Windows, MacOS and Linux devices are all perfectly suitable.

No.  Different teams can run at different times and still they are all part of the same event.  You can spread your event over hours, days, weeks or even months.  This allows your teams to run at times that are suitable for them.

There is a leaderboard, available to all throughout, that encourages a healthy spirit of competetion between the teams.  But later starting teams do not get to see the already finished team scores until they themselves have finished.  So there’s no advantage for later starting teams.

Most people based in China can access our sites without a problem.  That said, some Chinese ISPs do block dynamic updates from Western sites.  China-based participants to date have never had any problems if using their corporate VPN to access our services.

We have a test page that people can use to ensure they can receive our dynamic updates.

Well, we need them to have some Internet access for sure.

Part of our recommended process is for all participants to check their browser and connection is suitable via a check page.  This page preloads all the elements, making the start quick and smooth for everyone.

Once they are underway, the bandwidth requirement is minimal.  It even handles temporary loss of connectivity – probably without the person realizing they have lost connection!

Book a demonstration.  You can take us up on our offer of a personal demonstration. Either will show you what a modern, inclusive online team building activity looks like and give you a great insight into MiniScavenge.