Watson Adventures

WHAT THE MEDIA IS SAYING ABOUT WATSON ADVENTURES

• The New York Times has published feature articles on Watson Adventures three times. If you’d like to read the major profile of Watson Adventures from the front page of the Weekend section (see the story), or the earlier story in which Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos raves about the hunts (see the story). Another Times story recommends our Family Hunts (see “Happy Hunting”). Bezos also sent us a personal letter of thanks to Watson Adventures in appreciation of a hunt his wife commissioned for his birthday. “I can't think of a better way to bring people together and have fun,” he wrote.

• KABC Eyewitness News in Los Angeles took their cameras to the scene of our Santa Monica Pier Pressure Scavenger Hunt. See the story

• ABC TV’s World News Now featured a segment in which correspondent Barry Mitchell followed participants on our Central Park hunt.

• The Washington Post profiled two of our hunts in the feature story “Scavenging for Fun on a Big-City Hunt.” Reporter Hetty Lipscomb wrote, “Scampering up the marble steps with my team, I felt like a contestant on a reality TV series, The Amazing Race at the Smithsonian.” See the story (you must sign up with the Post Web site)

• The Chicago Tribune has twice featured Watson Adventures. The newspaper’s article on our Naked at the Art Museum Hunt in Chicago says that the questions are “equally challenging and funny, using nudity as a lure to educate.” In 2009, Watson Adventures’ 10th anniversary was featured in the Live! section along with a mini scavenger hunt. See the story or See the mini hunt.

• Lonely Planet travel guides reports: “Go beyond walking and talking with Watson, which turns each tour into a game by making you hunt for things—be it answers to interesting questions or quirky items—as you go about your journey.”

• Foxnews.com featured our Wall Street hunt in the story “Companies Opt for Offbeat Retreats.” An event coordinator for a major insurance firm said of their Watson Adventures event, “This forces you to look at the same things you always look at from a different point of view. Our group tomorrow will be more creative problem-solvers than they are today.”

• New York magazine has named Watson Adventures one of “The Top Five Tours That Remind You How Much You Still Don’t Know About New York,” adding later in another piece, “Dashing around the city was never so much fun.” See the story. In another article, “An Amazing Race,” New York wrote of our Grand Central Scramble, “Part of the fun in Watson’s games is the riddlelike clues.... New York trivia buffs will be impressed by the level of detail in the hunt.” See the story.

• Daily Candy says, “If only high-school field trips had been this much fun, we’d have spent less time figuring out whom to make out with on the bus ride back.” See the review.

• Time Out New York says, “Watson Adventures brings you back to a time when clever search-and-discover hunts were cool.”

• Citysearch named us the Best Tour of New York, noting that “Watson Adventures revives good, clean fun by offering a mind-body workout, bonding through teamwork and an infusion of culture.”

• The Boston Herald reported on our hunts in New England: “In Watson Adventures’ Boston scavenger hunts, the answers may be discovered in a John White Alexander painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, a frog exhibit at the New England Aquarium or at stops along the Freedom Trail.”

• Marketing guru Seth Godin, in his book 99 Cows, features Watson Adventures as one of 99 companies that are “doing something wonderful, out of the ordinary, or just plain weird,” noting that after a hunt, “you’re probably going to go to work and tell everyone what you did over the weekend.”

• Flavorpill Los Angeles writes, “Adding a grown-up twist to a childhood escapade, the Naked at the Getty scavenger hunt sends teams racing around the Getty Center in search of risqué works of art. In the engaging two-hour adventure...quirky clues provide hunters with an engrossing art primer along with the thrill of the chase.”

• Not for Tourists raves, “The Munch Around the Village tour (one of many the operation offers), was, after careful consideration, deemed a riotous success by the secret cadre of NFT staffers who participated. From the dedication of the Watson workforce...to the tough culinary questions and interesting, extraneous historical tidbits, Watson Adventures showed a shadowy cabal of NFT menial laborers how beautiful life can be.” See the review

• WOR Radio’s Joan Hamburg frequently recommends our hunts to her listeners.

• Travel and Leisure’s Web site touts our Central Park hunt, saying, “Hunting through New York will show you a whole new side of it.”

• National Geographic Traveler recommends our hunts as one of the top four tours in New York City.

• A.J. Jacobs, author of the acclaimed books The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, says, “Watson Adventures scavenger hunts are the perfect combination: You have a great time doing them, and you learn so many fun facts that you’ll have something to say at cocktail parties for weeks to come.”

• Eccentric America: The Bradt Travel Guide names Watson Adventures as one of the top 18 tour companies in New York City: “For a really innovative way to experience the city, especially its museums, take a Scavenger Hunt with Watson Adventures.”

• Philadelphia’s Play magazine says: “Unleash your inner Sherlock! Have you ever wanted to solve a murder mystery or a ghost story? We’ll bet you’ve never gone on a naked scavenger hunt. Or do you dream of unlocking the secrets of ancient civilizations? Watson Adventures wants to give you the opportunity to do all this, and much more, by taking you on one of their legendary scavenger hunts. Trust us — when the hunt is over, you’ll never look at Philly quite the same way again.” See the full story

• BootsnAll Travel Network declares, “Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts is just the group to help you discover the often unseen parts of your favorite American cities....These hunts are the ultimate way to let our competitive spirit blossom without apology.” Journalist Carly Blatt describes her experience on one of our hunts: “That ‘Aha!’ moment when we solve a puzzle and feel goofy grins spread across our faces is the ultimate adrenaline boost. This is good, old-fashioned fun....As soon as the hunt ends, I instantly miss the teamwork and out-of-the-box thinking. I crave the challenge of the hunt—and immediately make plans to join another one.” See the story

• The Best Things to Do in New York promises, “You’ll see the city in a new way when you’re scouring streets, parks, and even museums for answers to cryptic riddles on a Watson Adventures scavenger hunt.”

• The Austin American-Statesman says, “This is a mad, two-hour scramble in which, with a list of clues, you find your own bits of history....It’s an inventive way of taking a close look at a given part of the city.”

• The Baltimore Sun went on our Secrets of Fell’s Point Scavenger Hunt and reported, “This is not your garden-variety scavenger hunt....We’ll get plenty of exercise...and also give our brains a workout.”

• Itineready New York: “Visitors who have been to New York City before and are looking for a new way to explore the city and first time visitors who would like a unique alternative to a group tour should consider a Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunt. If you like the idea of mingling with like-minded strangers, the thought of some friendly competition gets your juices flowing, you enjoy solving puzzles, and you’re willing to be quick on your feet, then you’re a perfect candidate.”

• NewYorkMetro.com calls our Naked at the Met Hunt “a playful, whirlwind tour of the entire Met Museum.”

• Modern Bride says of our bachelorette party hunts, “[They] may call the adventure Bride ’n’ Go Seek, but we call it just plain fun.”

• Courier magazine calls Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts “a thrilling new way to experience New York’s great institutions and historic neighborhoods.”

• American Style Magazine: “Watson Adventures [turns] Manhattan’s art scene into a giant playroom....Some of the greatest treasure hunts around.”

• Metro says, “You could try to put this sort of thing together on your own....We suggest you just join up with the good people at Watson Adventures and have them take care of the legwork.”

• Meetings and Conventions magazine recommended our hunts in September 1999 and turned to us again for advice on how to stage hunts in February 2005.

• Flavorpill Chicago says of our Naked at the Art Museum Scavenger Hunt, “What better way to explore an art museum than by searching for the tempting, fleshy bits and witnessing incidents of incest and philandering while wandering around the collection? From Greek musclemen and smoldering sirens to peephole views and a golden shower from Zeus, museumgoers discover many of the museum’s hidden pleasures in this ‘naked scavenger hunt’ at the Art Institute of Chicago.”

• Travel guru Peter Greenberg included our family scavenger hunts in his article featuring Kid-Friendly Museum Adventures.

• Chicagoist featured The Naked at the Art Museum Scavenger Hunt in Do These: Valentine’s Day Events

• Little Bytes of the Big Apple says of our Murder at the Met Scavenger Hunt: “The scavenger hunts are designed as team-building projects and I was fascinated to see and hear how each individual took a specific role in the hunt.”

• NBC4 Los Angeles says of our Haunted Hollywood Scavenger Hunt: “...if you know what long-gone celebrity is rumored to play the trumpet in the upper floors of the Roosevelt Hotel, or what lurks in the Vogue Theatre, we recommend signing up faster than it takes a bit of ectoplasm to ecto.”

• Metromix says: “Who said scavenger hunts are just for kids? Definitely not the staff at Watson Adventures, the company that’s bringing the Haunted Washington Scavenger Hunt to the nation’s capital. Sound fun? It is. But be prepared: This hunt that takes you to some of DC’s spookiest spots rumored to host the spirits of Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Dolley Madison, just to name a few. Basically, it’s not for the faint of heart...”

• NewYorkology featured our 10th Anniversary Free Scavenger Hunt Day on their site.

• Metro Boston says: “Nearly every weekend, in one of Boston’s ancient graveyards where historic figures lie, groups of adventure-seekers bend over to peer at ancient, faded gravestones to see if they can find a man whose name would garner a round of applause. We cannot reveal the answer, of course, because that would be giving you a leg up on the competition in Watson Adventures' scavenger hunt. Sound like fun? Lucky for you, Watson Adventures does the hunts justice...”

• Washingtonian says: “Take some culture, add a splash of naughtiness and a twist of mystery, and you have the Naked at the Art Museum Scavenger Hunt at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Watson Adventures hosts the hunts, which puts you on the track to finding the nakedest things possible in the museum.”

• The Chicago Sun-Times says: “The folks at Watson Adventures, who specialize in brain-teasing scavenger hunts, are offering up a Valentine's Day traipse through the Art Institute of Chicago with a naughty emphasis on all things ‘naked’... Although know-it-all artsy types are welcome, you don't have to know a thing about art to play.”

• NBC Chicago featured our Naked at the Art Museum Scavenger Hunt in Chicago

• NBC Washington included our Naked at the Art Museum hunts in their V-Day 411: Date Directory, saying the hunts “will have you running around the museums to find the best nudes... nude art, that is. You and your partner will be feeling like Holmes and Watson by the time you're done discovering all the hidden works of art involving nudity and answering tricky questions to succeed.”

• Going.com selected our nudity-themed hunts as Editor’s Picks in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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