CONNECTICUT TEAM-BUILDING SCAVENGER HUNTS
Ready for team building with a dash of culture? On each of our scavenger hunts, you decipher clues to answer tricky, funny questions about the places you visit and things you find. No knowledge of any hunt location is required.
Our hunts have been acclaimed by the New York Times, ABC News, the Washington Post, Citysearch, Time Out New York, Daily Candy, and numerous other media outlets. More than 750 prestigious companies have benefited from our scavenger hunts, along with trade associations, social groups, alumni groups, bachelorettes, school groups, and more. For details on how the hunts work, and to see our rave reviews and prestigious clients, visit the Private Hunts page.
Our Connecticut scavenger hunt locations include...
Greenwich
Hartford
Mystic Seaport
New Haven / Yale University
South Norwalk
Stamford
A Train Ride Away: Grand Central
A Car Ride Away: The Bronx Zoo
...And Beyond
Greenwich: The Greenwich Gallop & The Bruce on the Loose Hunts
The posh shops of Greenwich make a swanky place for our great Greenwich Grab ’n’ Go Scavenger Hunt. Just ask American Express’s Departures magazine, which commissioned the original hunt here. You’ll explore some of the stores to collect and create unusual items, while also tackling such questions as...
• On Grigg St., look down outside a place where you could get help looking things up. Who warns that you should practice an automobile safety procedure? Answer: Outside Diane’s Books, celebrity quotes in the pavement include the Bette Davis line, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”
• In Greenwich Common, find a couple whose relationship seems to be on the rocks. Who created them? A small sculpture on a rock is signed D. More on the woman’s right foot.
Keep in mind that we’ve left out some of the clues and directions that help your team locate the answers. To spur additional creativity and bonding, you can add Team Photo Challenges to the hunt.
For an indoor option in Greenwich, our Bruce on the Loose Scavenger Hunt at The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, as a small museum, lends itself to short hunts for small groups, but it is packed with great exhibits on art and natural history. Contact us for more information about scavenger hunts in Greenwich.
Back to the top
Hartford: The Wadsworth’s Weird Wonders Scavenger Hunt
See the best of The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, America’s oldest public museum, on a whirlwind tour that reveals the most unusual and amusing details in six centuries’ worth of great paintings, sculptures, and other objects. For an outdoor hunt, downtown Hartford becomes a giant game board on our popular Grab ’n’ Go Scavenger Hunt. Contact us for more information about scavenger hunts in Hartford.
Back to the top
Mystic Seaport: The Mystic Madness Scavenger Hunts
Take trip back to the 19th century at Mystic Seaport, where our Mystic Madness Scavenger Hunt features the historic ships, buildings and unusual galleries of this “museum village.” You’ll explore 19th-century ships, homes, shops and factories, along with galleries of art and history. Investigate the foc’sle of the L.A. Dunton, find out how a beer keg sank the Tecumseh, get the latest score from an 1866 baseball game in the printing office, figure out how whale bones cut pies, visit a store to check out Garrigues’ Vegetable Worm Confections, and find out what to do when someone shouts “Wet the line!” Only good teamwork will untangle the clues to such questions as...
• In a hut with a whaling boat, find a whale undergoing on-deck “surgery” that would horrify a whale’s dentist. How long is the whale’s jaw? Answer: 18 feet
• Enter the Voyages exhibit building. Above the flatboat Pioneer, who (or what) has a name that suggests he’s not worried that smoking is bad for your health? A bear named Death Hug, seen in an illustration
• In a lifeguard station, find a metal “car” that was supposed to save your life when you needed to get off a shipwreck. Why might you hesitate in rough seas? It capsized.
Keep in mind that we’ve left out some of the clues and directions that help your team work together to locate the answers. To spur additional creativity and bonding, you can include our Team Photo Challenges.
Contact us for more information about scavenger hunts in Mystic.
Back to the top
New Haven: Hunts on the Yale Campus and in the Yale Museums
Discover the secrets of Yale University’s impressive campus and its museums on several different hunts. You’ll find it hard choosing which hunt to do.
The Bulldog Blitz Scavenger Hunt tours the historic heart of the campus, while revealing the hidden aspects of strange gargoyles on Gothic towers, tricky traditions connected with sober statues, silly figures in stained-glass windows, and the footpaths of famous students.
• An entrance to the law school features two scenes that are not flattering to their targets: one shows how students see professors, and the other shows how professors see students. How do students respond to the lively prof? Answer: They sleep.
• Outside Davenport Hall, what might remind students to be thankful—or just make them salivate? A stone relief of a roast turkey is above the kitchen entrance.
• On the Old Campus, people with a foot fetish seem to take a shine to a man in front of a gothic hall. What does he use to remember where he left off? Woolsey, with a foot made shiny from the touch of many hands, uses a finger to mark his place in the book he holds.
Keep in mind that we’ve left out some of the clues and directions that help your team work together to locate the answers. To spur additional creativity and bonding, you can include our Team Photo Challenges. The hunt is available in two-hour and 90-minute editions.
Need an indoor option? The Yale Art Attack Scavenger Hunt takes you on a whirlwind tour of the best of both the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. You’ll go on a quest across centuries and cultures as you tease out clues to find tricky and humorous details in works of art. No knowledge of art is required—you just need comfortable shoes and great teamwork. For example, you’ll search for answers to such questions as...
• In the Africa gallery, find a man who looks like he should sue his acupuncturist. What do you see when you contemplate his navel? You see yourself or a mirror when you look at the belly of the nkondi, with nails and other sharp items stuck into all parts of his body.
• Which Asian deity would be most impressive at doing “the wave” at a sporting event? Vasudhara, who has six arms.
• In a gallery with contemporary pieces, one artist decided to ante up and fold at the same time. What famed Founder makes a partial cameo in the piece? Answer: Ben Franklin is seen on folded money in ‘Money for Art.’
Again, keep in mind that we’ve left out some of the clues and directions that help your team locate the answers. This hunt can be done in two hours or 90 minutes.
For a very different indoor option, our Museum of Natural Hysteria Hunt at the Peabody Museum of Natural History hunt will make you feel like you’ve entered Jurassic Park. Along with life-size models of giant dinosaurs the museum is filled with an array of scientific curiosities. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to get the answers, but you do need great teamwork to uncover the secrets of strange specimens, objects from outer space, intriguing insects, eerie mummies and more. This hunt takes 90 minutes. For added fun and creativity you can add our Team Photo Challenges, which extends the hunt to two hours.
Contact us for more information about scavenger hunts in New Haven.
Back to the top
South Norwalk: The Swimming with Sharks Scavenger Hunt
No, you won’t literally get in the tank on our Swimming with Sharks Scavenger Hunt but you’ll definitely get up close with live sharks swimming past your nose in one of the many remarkable exhibits at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. You’ll also hunt for seals, jellyfish, turtles, tropical fish, model ships, history-making boats, and more, while reeling in unusual, quirky facts in answer to tricky, humorous questions. For example...
• If you were a common sea star, what would you do with your stomach to eat a jar of pickles? Answer: You would put it in the jar. Seriously. Sea stars begin to digest their food outside their body.
• What should a boater do at night to avoid getting impaled by a fish? Turn off the lights, which attract leaping houndfish.
• Near a boat that would cause Rocky to cry “Yo!’, what kind of sail would sound appealing to a starving sailor? A leg of mutton sail, as seen on a sign with old photos near the Adrienne.
Keep in mind that we’ve left out some of the clues and directions that would help you and your team navigate to and uncover the answers. The aquarium is a great for a 90-minute hunt. If you’d like a two-hour adventure, you can add Team Photo Challenges, or include a quick “SoNo Shuffle” through the historic heart of downtown South Norwalk, with clues among its historic cast-iron buildings and unusual stores.
Contact us for more information about scavenger hunts in South Norwalk.
Back to the top
Stamford: The Stamford Scramble Scavenger Hunt
The historic city reveals quirky sculptures, distinctive buildings old and new, majestic churches, hidden history, and other intriguing sights that make for a surprising scavenger hunt. Starring the grand old buildings of Atlantic Avenue, Old Town Hall, a permanent painter in Columbus Park, a church built in 1641, surprising sculptures, and a bar operated by a baseball local hero. You’ll search for answers to such questions as...
• Near Columbus Park, stand where you can see Old Town Hall’s cupola twice. What does a woman here get from a passerby? Answer: ‘Uninvited Advice,’ a realistic sculpture of a woman painting a view of Old Town Hall
Contact us for more information about scavenger hunts in Stamford.
Back to the top
A Train Ride Away: The Secrets of Grand Central Scavenger Hunt
If you’re up for an easy ride on MetroNorth, we have several popular hunts revealing the secrets of the great train station and its famous neighbors. Highlights include the Whispering Gallery, the Transit Museum, the Biltmore Room, the gourmet marketplace, and the spot where an actual missile left a hole in the constellation ceiling. For more details, see New York Locations.
Back to the top
A Car Ride Away: The Wild Wildlife Hunt at the Bronx Zoo
This hunt puts the wild in wildlife: one minute you’re in a tropical rain forest, the next, you’re peering across the African savannah. From the Mouse House to the Monkey House, from toucans in the World of Birds to bats in the World of Darkness, here’s a safari you won’t soon forget. For more details, see New York Locations.
Back to the top
...And Beyond
Don’t forget, if you are in southwestern Connecticut, you’re not too far from such popular hunt locations as Midtown Manhattan, Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Natural History. See the New York Locations page for details. Plus we’re always developing hunts in new locations in Connecticut, such as The Mashantucket Pequot Museum at Foxwood Resorts, and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield. We also offer a popular Anywhere Hunt and classic Grab ’n’ Go Hunt, which we’ve staged for companies at parks, resorts, neighborhoods, even in apartment buildings, and homes. We can turn any terrain into an adventure. Contact us for more information.
Back to the top
Print Our Connecticut Brochure
Of you can always print out pages on our site. But if you’d like a compact summary of our hunts to bring to a meeting, to show friends, or to help get future hunters excited, click the link below to call up our brochure as a PDF file. You may need Acrobat Reader to access it (click here to get it for free). Or you can contact us to mail you or fax you a copy.
See the Connecticut brochure.
Back to the top
Get in the Game! Contact Us...
If you’re ready to book a hunt, or have questions, call Watson Adventures at 877-9-GO HUNT, extension 11 (877-946-4868). Or use our handy e-mail Contact Form. The hunt’s afoot!
Try a Public Hunt: See Our Monthly Newsletter
Watson Adventures offers weekly hunts in New York, and occasionally Connecticut, that are open to the public for low promotional prices. To see the latest schedule, check out the Tri-state Area Edition of The Culture Vulture, our monthly newsletter. It also includes amazing trivia, jokes from famous comedians, and links to cool and offbeat Web sites. If you’d like to receive this free newsletter in your own e-mail box, sign up here—and on the next page you’ll see, be sure to check off “New York Area”:
(We do NOT share your address with purveyors of spam.)
Back to the top
© 2006, 2010 Watson Adventures LLC
Last updated:
25-Jan-2010 4:51 PM
