Online Scavenger Hunts Virtual Museum & City Scavenger Hunts

Visit museums across the country—virtually!

Discover odd and unusual art and artifacts on this unique museum virtual tour. Tricky, fun trivia questions provide clues that lead you on a quest to explore 16 online museums of all kinds, all over America. You’ll pick your way through virtual galleries and historic locations, in search of amazing masterpieces, startling artifacts, dinosaurs, famous people, and more, earning points for uncovering humorous details, all without leaving your comfy chair.

No previous knowledge is required. You just need sharp eyes and great teamwork on this adventure. Thanks to video conferencing technology and our custom game app, people at home can play along with a Watson Adventures host, work with teammates, and have fun together. This game sends you searching for the strangest and funniest details in art hidden on museum websites.

Special editions for private groups

• Want your colleagues to mix more during the game? The Mix & Mingle edition rearranges the teams at “halftime” to increase the number of people players interact with during the game.
• The International Edition is great for groups seeking online ESL games.
• If your group is up for a challenge, try the Brain Squeeze Edition, which adds devilish trivia questions to the clues.
• Or if you’re an educator looking for online classroom games, consider the Kids Edition.

Want to see more of a particular city’s best museums and landmarks? Escape games for New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, the San Francisco Bay Area, Texas, and Washington, D.C., are also available. If your group includes people from a variety of countries, whose first language might not be English, check out the Around the World Scavenger Hunt.

Contact us to learn more—and find more fun working at home!

Take a virtual tour of Boston

Want to explore Boston but can’t get out to see the sights? Sit down in front of a computer and strap in for a virtual tour of Boston on a scavenger hunt that shows you the best of the city from the comfort of your home. On teams, you’ll gather with our Host on Zoom (or a similar platform) and use our browser-based app to answer unusual trivia questions that lead you to discover great websites of landmarks and museums and answer tricky questions about what you discover. You’ll see quirky art, find surprising objects, peer inside majestic rooms, and virtually wander through sites that reveal Boston’s many treasures.

The online Boston scavenger hunt includes…

• Highlights along the Freedom Trail
• Surprising masterpieces in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• 3D walks inside historic houses
• A look at the infamous heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• A virtual stroll around the Harvard campus
• A swim with seals at the New England Aquarium

…plus an array of lesser-known but amazing places. All you need to win is good teamwork and a sense of humor.

This virtual tour of Boston scavenger hunt is a great team-building activity for groups of all sizes. You can use the game to introduce newcomers to the wonders of the city, or remind longtime residents of how great the city is and how much of it remains to be discovered.

A Kids Edition is also available as a great classroom aid to any teacher. If you’re looking for online ESL games, ask us about the International Edition, for people whose first language is not English. Join us online, and we’ll meet in Boston!

Take a virtual tour of Chicago

Want to explore the Windy City but can’t get out to see the sights? Sit down in front of a computer and strap in for a virtual tour of Chicago on a scavenger hunt that shows you the best of the city from the comfort of your home. On teams, you’ll gather with our Host on Zoom (or a similar platform) and use our browser-based app to answer unusual trivia questions that lead you to discover great websites of landmarks and museums and answer tricky questions about what you discover. You’ll see quirky art, find surprising objects, peer inside majestic rooms, and virtually wander through sites that reveal Chicago’s many treasures.

The online scavenger hunt includes…

• The Loop
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• The Field Museum and the man-eating Lions of Tsavo
• Millennium Park
• The Chicago History Museum
• The Museum of Science & Industry and its enormous train set

…plus an array of lesser-known but amazing places. All you need to win is good teamwork and a sense of humor.

This virtual tour Chicago scavenger hunt is a great team-building activity for groups of all sizes. You can use the game to introduce newcomers to the wonders of the city, or remind longtime Chicagoland residents of how great the city is and how much of it remains to be discovered.

Take a virtual tour of Los Angeles

Want to explore the city of L.A., from Santa Monica to Hollywood to downtown, but can’t get out to see the sights? Sit down in front of a computer and strap in for a virtual tour of Los Angeles on a scavenger hunt that shows you the best of the city from the comfort of your home. On teams, you’ll gather with our Host on Zoom (or a similar platform) and use our browser-based app to answer unusual trivia questions that lead you to discover great websites of landmarks and museums and answer tricky questions about what you discover. You’ll see quirky art, find surprising objects, peer inside majestic rooms, and virtually wander through sites that reveal L.A.’s many treasures.

The online L.A. scavenger hunt includes…

• The Getty Center
• The Santa Monica Pier
• The Petersen Automotive Museum and its collection of cars from movies
• The Huntington Library & Gardens
• Hollywood Boulevard and the Chinese Theatre

…plus an array of lesser-known but amazing places. All you need to win is good teamwork and a sense of humor.

This virtual tour of Los Angeles scavenger hunt is a great team-building activity for groups of all sizes. You can use the game to introduce newcomers to the wonders of the city, or remind longtime residents of how great the city is and how much of it remains to be discovered.

Uncover the secrets of an amazing university

You don’t need a degree in rocket surgery to tackle and master the tricky challenges on this online tour of the remarkable hidden life of Boston’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). You’ll get insider access as you follow clues across many fascinating websites—some obscure, some almost lost to time—to explore the halls, tunnels, galleries, inventions, and remarkable achievements of the campus. Your quest: answers to questions about the surprises you find. This team game is played via Zoom (or your favorite conferencing platform) and using our browser-based app. No previous knowledge is required: all you need is sharp eyes, good teamwork, a decent computer, and a comfy chair.

Your MIT scavenger hunt includes…

• The greatest student hacks (or pranks) of all time, starring a giant R2D2 and a police car on a high perch
• The amazing Mini Cheetah four-legged robot, like something out of sci-fi
• Starchitect Frank Gehry’s Dr. Seussian masterpiece, the Stata Center
• The professor who cracked the secret to the perfect cup of coffee
• Playful murals in virtual Tunnel66 and IRL Borderline tunnel murals that spring to animated life
• Smoots! How could we not include the Smoot, one of MIT’s most famous contributions to Boston

You will be amazed at the outpouring of innovations, both scientific and artistic. A fun bonus challenge will reveal 20 of the most important inventions created by MIT graduates or faculty members. Oh, and then there’s the Pirate Certificate. And nanospinach! We could go on, but you should just play the game.

Our Host will meet you at the start via Zoom to set up your group with the rules and the app, check with teams along the way, and reveal the winners at the end. This game is a great way to introduce new students to the MIT campus, or do some team bonding with the faculty, or provide a nostalgia-inducing activity for alumni, or just dazzle anyone who lives Boston or a mind-expanding adventure.

See that red button below? Click it now to learn more. Or maybe it activates a robot somewhere deep in the bowels of Building 10. Honestly, we’re not sure. Good luck.

Take a virtual tour of Philadelphia

Want to explore Philly but can’t get out to see the sights? Sit down in front of a computer and strap in for a virtual tour of Philadelphia on a scavenger hunt that shows you the best of the city from the comfort of your home. On teams, you’ll gather with our Host on Zoom (or a similar platform) and use our browser-based app to answer unusual trivia questions that lead you to discover great websites of landmarks and museums and answer tricky questions about what you discover. You’ll see quirky art, find surprising objects, peer inside majestic rooms, and virtually wander through sites that reveal Philadelphia’s many treasures.

The online Philadelphia scavenger hunt includes…

• Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell
• Oddball masterpieces at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• A walk through the Giant Heart at the Franklin Institute
• Al Capone’s cell at the Eastern State Penitentiary
• Exotic chocolates at Reading Terminal Market

…plus an array of lesser-known but amazing places. All you need to win is good teamwork and a sense of humor.

This virtual tour of Philadelphia scavenger hunt is a great team-building activity for groups of all sizes. You can use the game to introduce newcomers to the wonders of the city, or remind longtime residents of how great the city is and how much of it remains to be discovered. Also available: An International Edition, for groups that include people whose first language isn’t English; and a Kids Edition, perfect for a virtual field trip!

Want to make your next group activity truly revolutionary? Go on this virtual Philadelphia scavenger hunt!

Go on a Virtual Tour of San Diego

Pile into your virtual car and head for the online ramp to the internet for a scavenger hunt unlike any you’ve done before. You’ll meet up with our host in Zoom, launch our custom browser-based app, and then head into breakout rooms, where teams will follow clues to the best websites that feature San Diego. Your quest: answers to tricky, entertaining questions about the amazing things you’ll find. You’ll scour museums, parks, historic buildings, gardens, and more. No previous knowledge is required: you just need sharp eyes and good teamwork.

Highlights of the virtual tour include…

• A candy-size baby koala at the San Diego Zoo
• A surreal pipe dream at the San Diego Museum of Art
• A Soviet sub at the Maritime Museum of San Diego
• Cannibals who’ll make you lose your appetite at the Museum of Us
• Surprising tats on World War II sailors in the Gaslamp Quarter’s “tattoo museum”

…and that’s just five of the 16 stops. If you’re looking for online ESL games, ask us about the International Edition, for people whose first language is not English. Curious to learn more? Contact us and prepare to find more fun in San Diego!

Take a virtual tour of the San Francisco Bay Area

Want to explore the Bay Area but can’t get out to see the sights? Sit down in front of a computer and strap in for a virtual tour of San Francisco and San Jose—and points in between and beyond—on a scavenger hunt that shows you the best of the city from the comfort of your home. On teams, you’ll gather with our Host on Zoom (or a similar platform) and use our browser-based app to answer unusual trivia questions that lead you to discover great websites of landmarks and museums and answer tricky questions about what you discover. You’ll see quirky art, find surprising objects, peer inside majestic rooms, and virtually wander through sites that reveal the Bay Area’s many treasures.

The online San Francisco scavenger hunt includes…

• Strange creatures at the California Academy of Sciences
• A stroll through the galleries of the Legion of Honor and de Young art museums
• Tech breatkthroughs at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View
• A hidden time capsule in Washington Square
• A prison break at Alcatraz
• A mummy and his tomb at the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose

…plus an array of lesser-known but amazing places. All you need to win is good teamwork and a sense of humor.

This virtual tour of the San Francisco Bay Area scavenger hunt is a great team-building activity for groups of all sizes. You can use the game to introduce newcomers to the wonders of the city, or remind longtime residents of how great the city is and how much of it remains to be discovered.

TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF TEXAS

Want to explore such great Texas cities as Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Fort Worth but can’t get out to see the sights? Sit down in front of a computer and strap in for a virtual tour of Texas on a scavenger hunt that shows you the best of these five cities from the comfort of your home. On teams, you’ll gather with our Host on Zoom (or a similar platform) and use our browser-based app to answer unusual trivia questions that lead you to discover great websites of landmarks and museums and answer tricky questions about what you discover. You’ll see quirky art, find surprising objects, peer inside majestic rooms, and virtually wander through sites that reveal Texas’ many treasures.

THE ONLINE SCAVENGER HUNT INCLUDES…

• The Alamo
• The Houston Museum of Natural Science
• The Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin
• The Dallas Museum of Art
• The Perot Museum of Nature and Science
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

…plus an array of lesser-known but amazing places. All you need to win is good teamwork and a sense of humor.

This Texas virtual tour scavenger hunt is a great team-building activity for groups of all sizes. You can use the game to introduce newcomers to the wonders of the Lone Star State, or remind longtime Texans of how great the it is and how much remains to be discovered.

Take a virtual tour of Washington, D.C.

Want to explore the nation’s capital but can’t get out to see the sights? Sit down in front of a computer and strap in for a virtual tour of Washington, D.C. on a scavenger hunt that shows you the best of the city from the comfort of your home. On teams, you’ll gather with our Host on Zoom (or a similar platform) and use our browser-based app to answer unusual trivia questions that lead you to discover great websites of landmarks and museums and answer tricky questions about what you discover. You’ll see quirky art, find surprising objects, peer inside majestic rooms, and virtually wander through sites that reveal Washington’s many treasures.

The online Washington D.C. scavenger hunt includes…

• A look inside the White House
• The National Museum of American History
• The National Gallery of Art
• The Air & Space Museum
• The National Museum of Natural History
• The Lincoln Memorial

…plus an array of lesser-known but amazing places. All you need to win is good teamwork and a sense of humor.

This virtual tour of Washington D.C. scavenger hunt is a great team-building activity for groups of all sizes. You can use the game to introduce newcomers to the wonders of the city, or remind longtime residents of how great the city is and how much of it remains to be discovered.

Campus wonders revealed onscreen!

When you can’t make it to the hallowed grounds of the Yale University,* your team can still explore its hidden history, beautiful buildings, amazing museums, and more on a virtual team-building campus scavenger hunt. This group game uses Zoom (or your favorite platform) in combination with our browser-based app to send teams into breakout rooms to explore our remarkable curated collection of interactive websites featuring Yale. Your quest: answers to tricky question about the secrets you uncover. No knowledge of Yale is required.

Highlights include…

• A look inside Skull and Bones, perhaps America’s most secretive college club
• A big bite into a video about New Haven’s pizza stars, Pepe’s, Sally’s, and Modern
• A guided tour of humorous, ghoulish gargoyles on Yale’s Gothic buildings
• Dazzling technical design at the Yale School of Drama
• Visits to four museums and a botanical garden

This game is a great way to introduce new students to the campus and New Haven, or for faculty to discover just how much of the school remains to be discovered. And International Edition is also available to groups with participants whose first language is not English. Contact us to learn more and get in the game!

*If your group is looking for an in-person team-building activity, check out The Yale Bulldog Blitz Scavenger Hunt or check out the college scavenger hunt that can be played on any campus!

Go on a sultry search for nudity in art

OK, put your clothes back on: it’s the art, not the hunters, that will be naked on this Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt. If there’s one thing artists throughout history have loved to depict, it’s nudes. But naked is in the eye of the beholder, and you’ll be amazed at the variety of ways artists have included nudity in their work across the centuries.

Best of all, we’ll be combing museums across the country, and digging deep into our 21-year inventory of crazy questions about strange, startling, awkward, provocative, blush-worthy, and otherwise outrageous works of art that exhibit some connection with nudity.

Teams, including yours, will meet our Host on Zoom, and via our app you’ll follow a scandalous trail of clues to uncover alluring and amusing nudes and answer quirky questions about what you find. You might bump into a bronzed Adonis, encounter an incontinent Cupid, serenade moonlit sirens, walk in on handsy Egyptians, marvel at medieval codpieces, attend outrageous feasts, or run across a randy reveler who’ll make you exclaim, “I never sausage behavior!”

No previous experience with art, or nudity, is required.

Caution: There’ll be ghosts in your machine

…when you use your computer to join us for a poltergeist-plagued online scavenger hunt. On teams, you’ll go for a virtual walk to and within haunted places and learn the stories of their ghosts. You’ll meet our host on Zoom, then your team will go into a breakout room and use our browser-based app to follow a trail of clues across surprising websites, in search of answers to tricky questions.

We’ve taken our decades of real-world “haunted scavenger hunts” and translated them into an online quest—with new ghost-plagued places and blood-chilling tales.

Along the way, your team will…

• Visit Philadelphia’s creepy Eastern Penitentiary and its bygone (or are they?) prisoners
• Wander among crowded tombs in a cemetery haunted by a someone who was  accidentally buried alive
• Learn the chilling fate of Giles Corey at the Salem Witch Trial Memorial
• Sneak into the White House in search of the presidents whose ghosts have been spotted there

And those are just a few of the escapades and tales your team will enjoy on this online scavenger hunt. And in October, the game is perfect for your virtual Halloween party!

Or are you looking for a Kids Edition? Step this way…

Also available: The Halloween Trivia Slam, which proves that answer tricky questions associated with the holiday is not a trivial pursuit. (See what we did there?)

To join the fun, all you need is a good internet connections, reliable teammates, and a bit of courage. Click below to get into the game…before it’s too late.