DR. CLUE TREASURE HUNTS --INTERACTIVE "EDUTAINMENT" FOR CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING
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Picture the Scene:
With less than an hour to go before the deadline, your 5-person treasure hunt team stops for a breather beside a glittering mosaic in the New Orleans French Quarter (or in front of a time capsule in Greenwich Village; next to the Venus De Milo within the Paris Louvre; alongside a technicolor mural in San Francisco's Chinatown...). For the briefest of moments, you pause to take it all in: the rich neighborhood atmosphere; the pleasure of being outside together with your colleagues (away from the stuffy office environment); the rush of cracking cryptic puzzles & clues on the streets (and within the museums) of the world's greatest cities. It's amazing how much you're learning about your co-workers: Who knew that Jack is such a whiz at detail work and decryption; that Stephanie has an eye for the "big picture" and can do crossword puzzles in her sleep; that Ronnie is a fantastic leader and your "go-to person" for sports and movie trivia knowledge?!! This treasure hunt thing really is pretty easy when you make group decisions, leverage diverse skills and talents AND -- when appropriate -- form alliances with other teams. (Cross-team collaboration--what a concept!) But uh oh, the clock's ticking and your time for lingering is over. Only sixty minutes left; five more clue locations to check off! You better get moving--it's back to the mission!
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At Dr. Clue, we believe that you ONLY REALLY get to know your co-workers (and build trust) when you work on a project together, face to face, in real time. Since 1995, Dr. Clue Treasure Hunts has been pushing the envelope in combining Training with Entertainment ("edutainment"), offering you and your team the best of both worlds: a super-fun, brainy, offsite adventure that also brings people together and teaches critical team skills. We have over a dozen professional facilitators on staff, around the country, and more than 100 ready-to-go off-site locations, nationally and world wide. Quite literally, Dr. Clue is everywhere that your group could possibly be meeting -- and if by some chance we're not, well, we'll come out to you and transform the area into an exciting treasure hunt adventure. If you're going to do only one team offsite this year, you'll want to do it with the experts: Dr. Clue Treasure Hunts.
For more details about all our programs, call us at 510-528-0428 or click on the big yellow button above for an email price quote.
We all want to work in a positive work environment, one that is:
--Productive and efficient
--Playful and creative
--Collaborative and cooperative
--Philanthropic and socially responsible
Dr. Clue can help you create such a culture--and have a ton of fun in the process!
And that's not all! Along with our signature treasure hunt
events, check out Dr. Clue's wide variety of puzzle-based games and activities -- great for networking events, holiday parties, social events, etc., including:
1) The OBJECT TREASURE HUNT: Teams work together to solve tricky puzzles leading to a variety of fun objects hidden throughout the room. As this is a timed event, participants must make decisions together rapidly, assess skills and knowledge, and delegate the challenges appropriately. A great, self-contained, full-service treasure hunt, all in one room!
2) The TABLE REBUS: Every table is a team, working together to solve a large rebus puzzle. Through trading and swapping pieces with other tables, teams race to assemble the 25-piece rebus. Bonus: Once completed, the rebus solves to a creative team challenge, such as "Write a holiday song or rap and perform it!" Fast-paced puzzle solving; cross-team collaboration; creative performances -- all in one intelligent, action-packed event.
3) The PUZZLING NETWORKING GAME: Participants receive a series of table-top puzzles, with each clue cut into fourths. The players' task: find the three other people in the room who have the puzzle pieces they need, then work together as a foursome to solve each puzzle. People can stay together and solve each puzzle with their foursome, or spread out and work with a series of new quartets. It's like speed-networking -- with puzzles!
WANT A BRAND NEW HUNT LOCATION? YOUR CORPORATE CAMPUS, PERHAPS, OR SOMETHING INDOORS AT A NEARBY MUSEUM? HOW ABOUT NON-FACILITATED, DO-IT-YOURSELF ACTIVITIES? DR. CLUE HAS IT ALL, INCLUDING:
- SITE-SPECIFIC TREASURE HUNTS: Facilitated; over 100 set locations to choose from (or we'll make up a new location from scratch); 3-4 hours
- SITE-SPECIFIC TREASURE HUNTS: Non-Facilitated; customized and created from scratch at your location of choice; 2-3 hours
- NON-SITE-SPECIFIC DO-IT-YOURSELF CITY TREASURE HUNTS: Non-Facilitated; can be run in any urban location; 2-3 hours; boxed kit
- NON-SITE-SPECIFIC DO-IT-YOURSELF BAR CRAWL TREASURE HUNTS: Non-Facilitated; can be run in any urban location; 1.5-2.5 hours; boxed kit
- TEAM EFFICIENCY WORKSHOPS: Facilitated; Indoor at your location of choice; 3-4 hours
- VIRTUAL TREASURE HUNTS: Facilitated; Online, indoor at your location of choice; 2-3 hours
- PUZZLES AND CLUES FOR ALL OCCASIONS: ask us about all the creative ways our clients are using puzzles for networking, orientation, special events, etc.
Your Dr. Clue treasure hunt is designed for your most analytical and creative team members—folks who make their living "hunting" for patterns and analyzing data. We'll tell you straight up, our treasure hunt clues are pretty darn challenging...as they HAVE TO BE in today’s competitive marketplace. IS YOUR TEAM UP TO THE CHALLENGE? We only want to work with the best, so here's your qualification test: somewhere on this page is a hidden link to our secret puzzle page. HINT: TAKE STEPS to find it...then solve the hidden puzzle. ONLY QUALIFIED PROSPECTS will be considered for our programs.
Dr. Clue has 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE doing ONE THING & ONE THING ONLY-- CREATING TEAMBUILDING TREASURE HUNTS. We employ the best puzzle writers in the nation to write our clues; we hire the most professional facilitators in our industry to ensure your hunt runs seamlessly AND provides impact towards illuminating your specific, team development issues.
This is no mere "team recreation!" (We are NOT talking about laser tag here, or bowling or pee wee golf.) Your Dr. Clue treasure hunt is a structured, facilitated event, with your team walking away with significant "aha" moments about team productivity and efficiency. Is it fun? You bet it is...solving puzzles...working together with new folks...discovering the hidden treasures of your area.
Got a meeting coming up in some out-of-the-way location...well good news. Our Dr. Clue "scouts" have spent the last decade and a half traveling the globe, transforming city neighborhoods and museum into action-packed treasure hunts. Quite simply, we're everywhere!
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Whatever you choose, you can bet that your Dr. Clue activity will NEVER BE DUMB, NEVER BE DISORGANIZED AND NEVER BE BORING! To read about our signature teambuilding programs, click here.
Recent Hunts
45 employees from the cardiovascular research group of Boehringer Ingelheim met at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Their goal was to shift from their old identity under one VP, to a new identity under two new director/leaders.
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10 staff members from Marywood University met in Greenwich Village, New York. Their goal was to blend new staff with old, and to inspire more communication and connection going into the new school year.
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"Edutainment"
During a Dr. Clue event, expect to stretch your minds and bodies, leverage a broad variety of intelligence styles, solve puzzles, share information, look for patterns, analyze data, appreciate your teammates' braininess, laugh like hyenas, and collaborate together, both within and across teams. No mere "cheer-leading" events or "touchy-feely encounter groups", Dr. Clue programs strike the right balance between serious business take-aways and high-energy entertainment.
Our clients, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, from membership organizations to educational institutions, respond with raves about how their brainy Dr. Clue experience broke down barriers between their employees, integrated new people into the team, provided a much-needed break from work intensity and got everyone on the same page, focused on the good of the larger organization.
Our Team Building Activities
At Dr. Clue, the name of the game is PUZZLES. We're a little "old school" that way. We shy away from the use of GPS devices and other "technology", as these tend to lead participants into simply following around the teammember who is holding the device! In our programs, you ALL get involved -- not just your I.T. person! During all seven of our events, whether it's a non-facilitated scavenger hunt or bar crawl, a facilitated treasure hunt, or an internet-based team building activity, you'll solve an amazing variety of puzzles, codes and ciphers, much like those you've seen in movies like National Treasure and the Da Vinci Code, (only even trickier)!. We employ professional puzzle creators with a combined 40 years (!) of experience in the "art form" of clue writing, ensuring that all members of your team members will be quite intellectually stimulated. Dr. Clue is here to help you bridge the gap between your distance and virtual teams, re-enforce personal connections, increase team efficiency and time management, give back to the community, or just have a little fun social interaction in the fresh air.
Locations
Each Dr. Clue team building program is tailor-made to fit your organizational goals, time frame and budget. Choose from one of our set off-site locations (around the globe), have us bring alive the location of your choice, or let us come to you and your workplace.
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