Scavenger hunt team-building events create connection and bonding among team members as they play together.
Scavenger Hunt Games
Send event attendees on a fun journey that rewards engagement
Create fun, branded scavenger hunt games for your corporate events, team-building events, new employee orientation, guided tours, and campus orientations.
Teams earn points by completing challenges, checking into locations, posting photos, or completing trivia questions. Can add more advanced challenges for great engagement.
How Our Scavenger Hunt Fits Popular Uses
- Host ice-breaker activities that motivate people to get to know more teammates and know them better.
- Build trust and relationships through problem-solving challenges that encourage working together and help employees and members communicate better with each other.
- Reward employees and members with a great team-building event today to boost productivity and future success.
- Increase employee, member, and student retention for greater friendships and success.
- Create higher allegiance to the team, so everyone works harder towards organizational goals.
Keep more attendees engaged in your meetings and events with fun activities and multiple ways to win prizes.
- Boost networking among attendees, employees, and members for greater productivity and belonging.
- Educate players on new products, trends, skills, partners, company direction, and support systems.
- Improve relationships between your sales force and the team that supports them
- Offer a stand-alone scavenger hunt or as part of the game that boosts participation at a multi-day event.
- Great for sales kickoff meetings, annual meetings, customer and user events, conferences & private events.
Our digital passports use fun and prizes to boost traffic & increase engagement on your show floor or in your own booth better than paper passports.
- Create a scavenger hunt list of exhibitors that drives attendees to your show floor and boosts interaction with exhibitors and sponsors.
- Choose from a simple-to-set-up brandable game, or add more interactive challenges to boost attendee engagement.
- Our Booth Passport attracts and retains trade show booth visitors and motivates them to learn your whole story and product line.
- The game helps you educate prospects, boost engagement, create interactive content, and capture lead data.
Welcome new hires with a fun virtual scavenger hunt that serves as a self-guided tour and onboarding training.
- Greeting new hires with gamified onboarding helps increase employee engagement and long-term retention because it’s a fun way to learn about the company and its role.
- Send players on a treasure hunt for a list of items that teach them about company culture, HR policies, tech tools, specific locations, and more.
- Increase the value of your onboarding with things like knowledge checks (quizzes), problem-solving, and templates.
- Networking-focused challenges boost team building, trust, belonging, engagement, productivity, & retention.
- Help new hires get to know their team members as people beyond just their professional skills.
- Customize your virtual scavenger hunt with your brand and custom challenges to align the game with your onboarding goals.
Use virtual scavenger hunts to create shared experiences that will bring the fun back into your virtual team-building activities.
- Bring together remote teams for meaningful interactions at company events & orientations, even when you can’t be there in person.
- Help remote employees and team members build connections and absorb company culture with an online scavenger hunt.
- Get to know remote teammates better as they complete challenges that reveal more about themselves.
- Host socially-distant interactions that let team members express creativity, skills, humor, style, and interests.
Transform your new student orientation into a self-guided tour with a scavenger hunt game that gets more students actively engaged.
- Send players on a treasure hunt to explore your university campus together for prizes.
- Combine riddles with specific locations to compel new students to learn where essential student resources are located.
- Create challenges about campus highlights, student clubs, service centers, college history, and more.
- Earn points for taking selfies and creating shareable social media content of students doing incredible things together.
- Increase student retention as new students become lifelong friends who better understand the support your school offers them to succeed.
How Does a SocialPoint Scavenger Hunt Game Work?
01
Launch Your Game
Teams scan a QR code to open the scavenger hunt app in a mobile web browser. The team captain registers the team, and they can start the adventure or treasure hunt.
02
Play Together
Teams earn points for completing challenges. Typical examples are Check-ins, finding clues, riddles, posting photos, or completing trivia quizzes.
03
Celebrate & Recap
Use your wrap-up party to recap the day, show highlights in the photo galleries, share the leaderboard, and award prizes to the winning team!
Build the Perfect Scavenger Hunt - Pick the Challenges That Engage Your Audience & Create Connections
Choose from 13 interactive challenge types to customize your Scavenger Hunt Game – whether you want to energize your crowd, drive booth traffic, or reinforce key content.
QR Code Check-In
Drive booth visits and session attendance with QR scans that unlock prizes and challenges
Check-in Code
Attendees enter a code to check in at booths, sessions, or activities for more engagement
Photo Upload Challenge
Fun and creative photo-based challenges get attendees snapping and sharing
Live Trivia (Game Show)
Turn your event into a high-energy competition with live, host-led trivia battles
Quizzes
Test knowledge and reinforce learning from breakouts and training with self-paced quizzes
Guess the Word or Phrase
Fun word-guessing games are perfect for product knowledge checks or ice breakers
Survey
Gather feedback or opinions to keep the audience engaged – and learn what they really think
Clue Challenge
Drop hints for attendees to uncover the answers – great for team-building scavenger hunts
Poll
Get real-time opinions instantly – perfect for crowd feedback or session engagement
Download a Document
Attendees earn points for downloading brochures, guides, or session handouts
Watch a Video
Reward players for watching product demos or sponsor videos
Word Cloud
Visualize audience input for brainstorms or capturing top-of-mind ideas
Caption This Photo
Attendees write funny or clever captions for photos, driving laughs and engagement
Mix & Match for Maximum Impact!
Combine different challenge types to build a game that meets your goals – whether you’re creating stronger teams, driving learning, or creating memorable event moments.
Photo Challenges Spice Up Scavenger Hunt Games
Game players take pictures with their smartphones to win challenges, providing lots of photos you can share at the event or later on your website
- More Connections: Attendees bond as a team taking photos of their group at scavenger hunt locations.
- Make Content: Get great photos to share during session breaks, at your event finale, or right inside the game app.
- Save Time: Our game auto-generates a photo gallery – no need to rush building a PowerPoint.
- Save Money: Get hundreds of event photos without needing to hire an event photographer.
- Retain Control: You can filter the photos before sharing them.
2 Ways To Play Scavenger Hunt Challenges:
Entire List at Once
Play Challenges In Any Order You Like
In this popular game format, players see the entire list of game challenges from the start. They can choose to do the challenges in any order they want, selecting challenges based on amount of points, location, their own knowledge, and challenge type. Everyone can take a different path from start to finish. Best with larger groups.
Clue-Based
Play Each Challenge One At A Time
Clue-based amazing race style sends players on an adventure where they don’t see the entire list of challenges, but instead follow clues one at a time to get to a destination or completion. As they complete challenges, clues are revealed that send them to the next location. Or, clues can reveal the answer to a puzzle or secret code. Best with smaller groups.
Greater Attendee Engagement With Multiple Ways To Win Prizes & Recognition
Prize Drawing
- Create a show out of picking a winner with the raffle wheel
- Progress bar and drawing tiers keep players motivated
Leaderboards
- Show leaderboards on the big screen, monitors and in the player app
- Choose from Team, Individual or Daily Winner leaderboards
Instant Win Rewards
- First players to complete earn the prizes
- Rewards players for completing specific challenges
Virtual Prize Wheel
- Manage inventory for both high-value and low-value giveaways
- Players can spin the wheel at a kiosk or online
Mobile Player Experience
Designed for mobile, your players can join the game via web link or QR code
List of Challenges
See the activities that you need to complete
Challenge Detail
Follow instructions to complete activity
Track Progress
See how you are progressing towards your goals
Earn Rewards
Confetti reigns down when you achieve your goal
More Engagement
Team leaderboards with natural rivalries increase competition and engagement
No App To Download!
We make it easy on you and your game players!
Our Scavenger Hunt games look like an app on a smart phone, but are just a webpage! Players just scan a QR code or click on a link to launch the game. No need to visit the app store.
Easy To Set Up & Manage Games
Set up the game yourself with our:
- Self-guided Wizards
- Templates
- Uploadable spreadsheets
- How-to-guides
Or, leverage our experienced Customer Success Team to help you build and launch your game.
Deep Customization Fits Scavenger Hunt To Your Needs
Our APG platform offers deep customization in all Scavenger Hunt facets so you can design exactly the game experience you want
- Game Play Options: Live app-based, QR code scanning, or staff-scored activities.
- Game Activities: Trivia, quizzes, photo uploads, scavenger hunts, documents downloads, videos, surveys, polls, and more.
- Rewards and Recognition: Prize drawings, leaderboards, instant win prizes, and prize wheel spins.
- Registration Flexibility: Domain restrictions, GDPR/CCPA compliance, customizable terms, and lead forms.
- Themes and Branding: Custom logos, fonts, and imagery, or ready-to-use themes.
- Custom Interfaces: Personalized instructions, login pages, and dynamic post-challenge content.
Create Your Own Theme Matched To Your Brand Or Event
Create a rich branding experience in multiple screen sizes for your corporate event game. Customize the event theme, colors, logos, fonts, images and game elements.
Integrations Enhance Attendee Experience
Notifications Save You Time, Send Leads
Our Scavenger Hunt Game integrates with all of these:
- Event Apps (such as Cvent, Swapcard, Swoogo, and more)
- Virtual Meeting Platforms (such as Zoom, Teams, WebEx)
- Websites and landing pages (as embedded content)
- CRM (via Zapier)
How our integrations help you:
- Add more robust SocialPoint games into your event app
- Synchronize attendee event registrations
- Auto-login from another platform
- Embed a leaderboard, prize wheel, results screen, and even the game app on a website or landing page
- Submit scores from another game (or system), or transfer SocialPoint scores to another platform, via our API
How our notifications help you:
- Trigger emails to your sales team & lead inquirers via Zapier
- Send leads to your CRM via Zapier
- Automatically send prize winner data to your prize fulfilment team, loyalty tracking, or vending machine
- Automatically send contact data and game results when a new player plays an extended time period game
- Automatically send player an email when they download a document within our game, with a link to that document
- Record in other systems when a task is completed, player scores to ensure content mastery, and attendance tracking
Celebrate & Recap Your Scavenger Hunt Game
Bring everyone together for a final game debrief and prizes. Use the Socialpoint Photo Galleries, Leaderboards, and Prize Wheel to highlight the fantastic day.
Photo Gallery
Create a playlist of the best photos captured during the game and put them in your photo galleries for display screens or embed them on your website.
Final Leaderboard
Recognize the players and teams who earned the most points by showing the final leaderboard standings.
Virtual Prize Wheel
Everybody loves the Virtual Prize Wheel. Use the prize wheel to reward players and teams who won't make it to the top of the leaderboard.
Prize Drawing
Use the virtual prize wheel to randomly select players and teams who earned enough points or completed enough challenges
How does it work?
Once you signup for SocialPoint, you will be assigned a Customer Success Project Manager. This person will help you set up and bring your game vision to life.
01
Kickoff
We work with you to establish a project timeline and review our Success Checklist to ensure a successful event.
02
Setup your Game
You create the graphics and content. We will configure your scavenger hunt app and load all the data.
03
Dry Run
We’ll help you get ready for the dry run and practice game. Then, you can make any additions and adjustments to the game.
04
Go Live!
We’ll help launch your game. Then, we can sit back and watch your players have fun!
Analytics and Reports:
Prove Value, Track Activity & Learning, Provide Leads
Our Scavenger Hunt Game Creates Results You Can Measure & Share
Dashboard
Track your game activity and performance for your key event stakeholders.
Challenge Summary
Keep engagement data for each activity in your sponsor booths. You can track each check-in, download, photo, trivia quiz, etc.
Download Leads
Download lead data for each Challenge Activity. Lead data will include any custom form fields beyond name and email.
Who Uses SocialPoint?
Organizations who have used SocialPoint for corporate events & trade show games.
Companies
GE Healthcare, SAP, Expedia, Medtronic, Smith + Nephew, Trend Micro, Eaton, Thomson Reuters, Bank of Montreal, PwC, John Deere, Thermo Fisher Scientific, McKesson, Teleflex, Discover, Hyatt, Andersen Windows, LexisNexis, Reckitt, Cricket Wireless, Microsoft, Optum, Siemens, IMAX, Accor Hotels, AmerisourceBergen, PACCAR
Agencies
3D Exhibits, George P. Johnson, Freeman, Liaisons Meetings & Events, Impact XM, Imprint Events, Fenex Event Management, Sonic Promos, Enterprise Event Group, MetroConnections, TEN Advertising, Red Archer Event Management, Czarnowski, TOBRA Meetings, RCD Events, International Conference Services, Jackson Dawson, CMC Events
Show Organizers & Associations
Informa, American Nurses Association, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, NAFTZ, AICPA, The Economist, DIA, Utilities Service Alliance, Advertising Specialty Institute, Florida Dental Association
Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, California Rental Association, NYC Jewelry Week, American Physical Society, Central Utah SHRM
What Customers are saying about SocialPoint
Customer Success Story
With more attendee participation comes better performance statistics and more data. SocialPoint’s approach to gamification helped a group of Tax and Accounting professionals give away nearly 1,200 prizes and get attendees to complete an average of 9 challenges per player.
In Virtual and Hybrid events, players are completing nearly 10-15 challenges per player.
Attendees
1400
Game Players
805
Challenges Completed
7775
Prizes Won
1191
Our Guarantee: We are more than technology
Our experienced team can guide you to design and create engaging game experiences. We will be there to lift you up when you are stuck.
“The best thing about SocialPoint is the customer service. They took what felt like a huge project and made it incredible easy to set up and manage.”
“You truly cannot find a better quality product at this price point with all the “hands-on” support provided by SocialPoint.”
“Working with this team was a dream. I felt so supported throughout the entire process by my account manager and also through the chat option onsite.”
“The company is always available for questions and has helped us to use the platform to reach our goals.”
“The service provided by the support team alone was worth the price.”
We truly care about your success
“She made the whole experience seamless and was very prompt in responding to questions.”
“The consultation and execution was really great.”
“The best thing about Socialpoint is how easy it was to setup, and how friendly and communicative the Socialpoint team was throughout the entire process.”
“Our SocialPoint Customer Success Manager was fabulous and I sincerely appreciate the way she shepherded us through the process with our game, from start to finish!”
“The program management and support was great. We got our game up and running very quickly. Our questions were answered quickly and thoroughly.”
We Support You from Game Design Through Launch
- Customer Success Team Member: You will be assigned a customer service team member to guide you through the process of planning, setup and launching your game. Take advantage of our knowledge to gain confidence and build an awesome game.
- Live Chat: We provide live chat support between 9 AM and 6 PM EST. Ask your questions and get answers from our team.
- How-to-Guides: Review our how-to-guides and prerecorded videos and get ready to design an awesome game!
Get Started on your own Scavenger Hunt Package!
Want to create a unique, branded scavenger hunt for your event? We are here to help you with easy-to-use software, pre-packaged trivia content (themes + questions), and support from our onboarding specialists.
Here are the key features of our Scavenger Hunt package:
- Use of SocialPoint Attendee Participation Game software and access to our team for 60 days or 1 year.
- Subscription term starts when you order.
- Unlimited challenges.
- Set up one 30-minute kick-off meeting with an onboarding specialist.
- Set up one 30-minute brainstorming meeting.
- Set up one Ready-to-Launch meeting with onboarding specialist.
- Get additional support through email support, live chat and online guides.
Frequently Asked Questions
Getting Started
How do players join the game? Do they need to download anything?
No downloads needed! Players simply scan a QR code or visit a URL to join instantly—on any device.
Can players join from any QR code, and how does that work?
Yes! QR codes are a quick way to check in at booths, complete challenges, or unlock prizes. They work instantly—just scan and play.
Will SocialPoint integrate with my event app (like Cvent or Swapcard)?
Yes! We integrate with top event platforms like Cvent, Swapcard, Swoogo, and more. Sync registrations, enable auto-login, and create a smooth attendee experience.
What are some common mistakes to avoid with games for corporate events and trade shows?
Here are some common mistakes to avoid when using games for corporate events and trade shows:
- Not choosing a game that aligns with meeting your goals.
- Making your game too complex for players to quickly play or understand how to win.
- Not offering valuable enough prizes to incentivize people to play, or a variety of rewards to keep people engaged throughout a longer event.
- Not promoting your game before and during your event to get more people to play.
Setup and Support
How long does it take to set up the game? I’m short on time—can you help?
We know planners are busy. Our proven process—Kickoff, Setup, Dry Run, and Launch—helps you get your game ready fast, with our team guiding you every step of the way. Most games are setup in 3 weeks. If you are less than 2 weeks from your event, we can get you ready quickly for a rush fee of $750.
What support do you offer? Will your team set this up for me?
You won’t be left figuring this out alone. Our team works with you to set up your game and ensure everything is ready to go. We can also provide onsite support if needed.
Do you offer onsite support at my event?
We don’t send people onsite, but we can offer remote dedicated support packages to ensure everything runs smoothly on event day. Ask us about the options! Note: Most events don’t need it though.
How does SocialPoint protect my data?
First, it’s important to know that SocialPoint customers own the data that they put into the system and the data that is created from their games. This is outlined in Section 3.1 of our Terms and Conditions.
Second, we have a detailed data processing addendum that is included in the terms and conditions that explain how we process your data and protect it.
No, we won’t sell your data. We confirm that in Section 2.1.5.2 of our Data Processing Addendum.
Game Customization and Results
I’ve tried gamification before, and it flopped. Why will this work?
Most event apps treat gamification as an afterthought. SocialPoint is a real gamification platform designed to drive engagement with customizable challenges, prize incentives, and our proven process.
There are three things that help keep people engaged and motivated to play over three dates:
(1) We can turn challenges on and off, so players can’t play ahead and cheat.
(2) We offer multiple reward options, so if a player feels like they can’t win on the leaderboard, perhaps they can earn a drawing entry or win an “instant prize”.
(3) If you have a team game, we find that the team leaderboard and my team leaderboard create peer pressure (to not let my teammates down) to help keep players engaged and playing.
How do real-time leaderboards drive engagement at my event?
Live leaderboards create friendly competition and keep players coming back. Attendees see their progress, and you get more participation. With SocialPoint the leaderboards update in real-time keeping players up to date on what’s happening around them.
How can I reward players—besides using a leaderboard?
Besides leaderboards, you can offer prize drawings, instant win prizes, spin-to-win prize wheels, and more—motivating players to stay engaged.
How can I customize the game to match my event and brand?
Our platform is built for customization. You can add your logos, colors, challenge types, and more to create a game that fits your event perfectly.
Plans and Pricing
Which pricing plan is right for me—60-day or annual?
Our One month and 60-day plans are great for one-time events, while our annual plan saves you money if you’re running multiple games throughout the year.
Scavenger Hunt Not The Right Game For You? We May Have A Better Fit
We offer a suite of interactive games designed to make your event more fun and engaging
QR Code Scavenger Hunt
Scan QR codes with your phone’s camera to play and complete challenges while earning points. It’s a fun way to implement a team-building game, city scavenger hunt, employee onboarding, and much more.
Digital Trade Show Passport
Increase attendee engagement and provide provable value to sponsors. Helps show owners drive traffic to specific places around their conference, especially sponsors’ booths. Players do challenges (such as check-ins, photos, trivia, and staff-scored), collecting points to rank on the leaderboard and spin a raffle wheel for prizes.
Live Trivia
Create a Live Trivia game show for training, remote team building, and corporate events. Includes 50+ game themes and 100+ trivia quiz packs to help you get started in minutes. Or, customize your game to match your brand and add your own trivia questions.
Interactive Trivia Games
An online trivia game platform to quickly create and launch quizzes and trivia games for live or self-paced gameplay. Our variety of trivia game styles gives you the flexibility to create live trivia, survivor-style elimination games, trivia quizzes, and more.
How Gamification Improves Key B2B Events
Get ideas on how to boost excitement while providing measurable results at all your must-succeed corporate events and trade shows.
