Zoom Games for Kids & Families Virtual Scavenger Hunts
for Kids

Deck the Hall with Rounds of Challenges!

Prepare for a game that has more surprises in it than Santa has toys on his sleigh. (Don’t tell him we said that.) This is a hosted team-building activity that pleases full-throated carolers and grumbling Grinches alike. In multiple rounds, teams will gather around the virtual yule log on Zoom—or gather together in person—to answer humorous questions that cover a wide range of holiday themes.

You might tackle such topics as tricky lyrics from seasonal songs; a holiday movie mashup; celebrities with festive connections to the holidays; celebrations and foods from around the world; and other entertaining fact-snacks about Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, Boxing Day, and of course Festivus. Plus there’s a photo scavenger hunt round, to get teams to use their egg-noggins. Also: no more puns like that one.

Our host/emcee will guide your group through the rounds and keep the good cheer flowing, whether they are leading the game via Zoom or in person, in a location you choose. It’s the perfect choice for stress-free holiday event planning and laughs and fun for the whole team.

Incidentally, don’t miss our other virtual holiday games, such as Joy Around the World: Virtual Holiday Scavenger Hunts.

Contact us to learn more about a virtual or in-person holiday trivia game—and find more fun this holiday season wherever you are!

Better than banging a gardooka

If your holiday plans don’t include frolicking with friends like all the Whos down in Whoville (with their blumbloopas and tartookas), we’ve got the next best thing: a gathering on Zoom to sleigh ride across the internet. These virtual holiday scavenger hunts for kids take you to amazing websites in search of answers to fun, funny questions.

On teams you’ll meet our host on Zoom, then head into breakout rooms and use our desktop app to access our carefully collected and inspected array of amazing museums, holiday markets, panoramic photos of exotic places, and other eye-popping online wonders. Your mission: come up with answers to tricky, humorous questions about the cool stuff you find. You’ll feel like you’re sight-seeing from Santa’s sleigh.

Highlights include…

• A virtual visit to Charles Dickens’ house in London in search of Scrooge
• A panoramic view of the actual, geographic North Pole
• Unusual toys from museums and shops around the world
• Festivals in such places as Budapest, Strasbourg, Krakow, and Santa Clause Village in Finland

Of course these are more than just online Christmas games: Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and the Winter Solstice are also featured. But even if you’re allergic to tinsel you’ll have fun.

This is a great school activity, introducing students to places and traditions around the world. But it’s also a fun game to unite families and friends, such as on our weekend hunts for the general public. Just tap one of those Santa-coat-red buttons below to learn more or buy a ticket. Guaranteed to delight any Grinch!

A Virtual Global Adventure from Home!

Just because you’re stuck at home doesn’t mean you can’t go around the world in 60 minutes! This unusual virtual adventure will send kids, on teams, in search of answers to fun questions that they find on websites for museums and historic landmarks around the world. Your group will meet with our host on this Zoom game for kids, learn the rules, then head into virtual breakout rooms where teams will use our browser-based app to follow clues, find websites, and enter answers. And wow, what websites have we found for you to discover!

Stops along the way include…

• A 360-degree view of the ancient streets of Pompeii, Italy
• A dash through caves in France in search of prehistoric paintings
• A creepy “mermaid” from Japan who now lives in London
• A swim with fish through a 19th-century shipwreck at the Great Barrier Reef
• A live panda cam in the Wolong Grove Panda Yard, China

And that’s just a taste of this traveler’s buffet. It’s the perfect Zoom game for kids—a virtual classroom activity that reveals the wonders of the world while fostering teamwork and cooperation. No previous knowledge is required: you just need nimble fingers, sharp wits, and great teamwork. Magic carpet sold separately. Groups can book a game any time. Or round up a group of friends and family for weekend games for the general public. Click below to start your virtual trek across the globe!

Fun for Kids and Adults Together

Oh no! A famous art expert is missing, and an anonymous person claiming to have killed the expert is daring you to stop him—or her! This diabolical person has created a virtual museum scavenger hunt for kids involving art in famous museums, and has hidden in the game clues that reveal where the crime took place, what weapon was used, and the name of the killer. Can your team of detectives beat the killer at his or her own game?

You’ll play the killer’s game by visiting museum websites, finding works of art, and answering tricky questions. Close-up details of the art will provide visual clues to help you zero in on the masterpieces you need to examine. No previous knowledge of art or any museum is required.

To play, all you need is a desktop computer and our app that launches in any browser. You’ll connect with our Host and perhaps your teammates in other places by using a video conferencing platform that runs on your computer.

The game is suitable for ages 10 and up, and we recommend at least one adult per team. Think you have what it takes to bring a criminal to justice?

Can your team master our tricky trivia?

Five rounds of fun in one hour will determine whether your team can pull together to become trivia masters. The questions in our virtual games for kids cover a range of topics, such as cartoon characters, snack foods, board games, famous places, songs, and surprising moments in history. You’ll be using our custom app—which can be used in any browser—so if you get stuck with a question, you’ll get a hint.

And to get you up out of your seat there’s a photo scavenger hunt round. That strange object on your bookshelf or funny t-shirt in your closet could help you achieve victory!

Our Game Host will lead your Zoom trivia game and send teams into breakout rooms for each round. The Host will check in with your team to make sure you’re on track. If you’re lucky or very persuasive, you might get a hint.

The game is for ages 10 and up. Groups can arrange private games for any time—for connecting families across the map, for school groups who can’t go on a field trip, for scouts and sports teams that can’t get outdoors, you name it!

Jaw-dropping reactions and uproarious laughter are optional. Ready to play?

Explore Museums All over the Country—at Home!

Round up your teammates for an online adventure that challenges you to explore museum websites in search of the craziest, zaniest, secret-and-surprise-stuffed-fulliest (is that a word?) exhibits you’ve ever seen outside of your dreams. You’ll follow tricky clues on different museum websites and answer humorous question about what you uncover.

No knowledge of any particular museum is required: you just need sharp eyes, sharp wits, sharp teammates, and sharp pencils. Wait: sharp pencils not required, because you’ll be reading the clues and answering the questions in our spiffy app, bursting with links and hints and sound effects and other fun stuff.

Virtual scavenger hunt highlights include…

• Sue the T. rex at the Field Museum in Chicago
• A tour of the Texas State Aquarium with a sloth
• A bison stampede at the Milwaukee Public Museum
• The Space Shuttle Discovery at the Air & Space Museum
• Vintage arcade games at San Francisco’s Musée Méchanique

The game is suitable for ages 10 and up, and we recommend at least one adult per team. This virtual scavenger hunt is a great way to connect with family, friends or classmates. Contact us to learn more about a private game for your group!

Grab your wizarding wands

…for an adventure that takes you to museums across America in search of art that echoes characters, places, and magical objects in the famed Harry Potter books and movies. No, you won’t need the Weasleys’ flying car: You’ll sit at your home computer, join your teammates via Zoom, and use the Watson Adventures online app to get clues, pop onto museum websites, and search for answers to fun, tricky questions on this virtual scavenger hunt. 

Be prepared to track down bizarre creatures, slithering serpents, swinging swords, men who might remind you of Voldemort and Nearly Headless Nick, trophies that seem straight out of the Triwizard Tournament, and eerie figures as scary as any Death Eater or Dementor. Along the way, you’ll virtually visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, and more!

Wizards and muggles alike can play and enjoy this hunt. It’s not an addition to or variation on Harry’s adventures; instead, references to the books will provide a surprising bridge to many strange and wonderful works of art. 

This hunt is suitable for ages 10 and up. Kids and adults will enjoy playing the game together. The game can be booked for private groups just about any time, and it’s also available to the general public on select weekends. A click of a button below will begin your adventure…

Need some good news?

Let’s not forget to look at all that’s right about the world and our history. This gratitude scavenger hunt combs the internet in search of the many people, places, and moments for which we can be grateful. It’s a virtual appreciation game you play on teams, so you’ll also come away with a better appreciation for your colleagues. You’ll follow clues to discover websites around the world that celebrate natural wonders and pioneering people who have given amazing gifts to us all in discoveries and inventions, music, food, art, education, humor, and a cornucopia of other areas of achievement.

You’ll be thankful about such things as…

• The wonders of the human heart, as you go through a giant one at the Franklin Institute
• The advances in everyday food, glorious food, as reflected through the mischievous eyes of Andy Warhol
• The amazing sculpting powers of water at the Iguazu Falls in South America
• Marvels of transportation, a Space Shuttle at the Air & Space Museum or fun model trains at Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry
• Miracles of nature such as chimpanzees and the species-saving arks that are zoos
• Heroes and pioneers such as Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, and Lin-Manuel Miranda

…and much more. There’s also a bonus challenge featuring Americans who lead by example in their work for charities and worthy causes. By the end of this appreciation game, you’ll certainly be thankful you played.

A Kids Edition and an International/ESL Edition are also available. Contact us to learn more.

How to Host a Virtual Birthday Party

Bring together family and friends, wherever they are, to celebrate your loved one’s big day. In this special virtual birthday party edition of our Trivia Slam Game, you’ll team up to tackle trivia challenges about famous parties, amazing celebrations, and your own guest of honor. Players will also enjoy a photo scavenger hunt round and decode a Mystery Message customized for your birthday person.

You’ll play in teams, and the guest of honor has the option of changing teams after each round, to spend time with all of the participants. Zoom video-conferencing brings everyone together, while our custom app delivers the questions, collects answers, and keeps score. And our live Host keeps the game going and everyone laughing and sharing.

In addition to the version for adults, a Kids Edition is available for ages 12 and up.

Ready for a virtual birthday party blast?

A Virtual Tour of Canada from Home!

Need a little zip in your company’s Zoom meetings? Need to stretch your legs, or your mind, a bit? Here’s a team-building game that will take you across Canada in 60 minutes! Just get your group on Zoom to meet with our Host and we’ll send you off to explore the nation’s best museums, cities, and other historic locations—all via amazing websites. Your challenge: follow our clues, find amazing objects, and answer tricky questions about them.

Virtual scavenger hunt highlights include…

• A virtual stroll through Old Québec
• A walk through the galleries of the Royal Ontario Museum
• An online invasion of Craigdarroch Castle in British Columbia
• An eye-popping peep at the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal
• A neck-cranking look at towering totem polls in the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver

And that’s just a taste of this traveler’s banquet. Our app, which works in any browser, will deliver the clues, the links to great websites, and the tricky questions. No previous knowledge is required: you just need nimble fingers, sharp wits, and great teamwork.

The game is perfect for corporate team building, connecting colleagues who work from home or in separate cities. A Kids Edition is available, one of our many online classroom games. If you live in Canada, you’ll be surprised anew at the abundance of treasures in your country; if you don’t live there, this virtual tour of Canada may make you want to move there.

Is Ghost Hunting a Trivial Pursuit?

How are you at conducting a seance? Because your team will have quite an edge in these online Halloween games if you can consult with spirits, goblins, ghosts, specters, vampires, and other things that go bump in the night.

During this “virtual Halloween trivia pub quiz” your team will tackle a variety of challenges. You might be asked to identify movie monsters by their dating profiles; ponder ridiculous DIY costumes and decide “Who Wore It Best?”; recall characters from Halloween episodes of classic TV shows; name famous haunted places; recognize the slogans of Halloween candy; and more.

You might want to come to the Zoom session appropriately attired for the photo challenge round, where a skeletal hand might come in handy, a pumpkin could pump up your points, and your home gym could count as a torture device.

At the start, you’ll join our Host on Zoom to go over the rules. Then you’ll head into breakout rooms by team, and you’ll use our browser-based app (nothing to install!) to receive and answer questions. After each round you’ll rejoin the host to hear the answers, get score updates, and get in some banter.

Kids Editions are also available, as well as a different sort of game, Virtually Haunted: The Online Halloween Scavenger Hunt, featuring haunted places in America and England, and the tales of the ghosts who linger there.

Dying to get in on the fun of online Halloween games? Contact us to learn more…before time runs out!

Starring Waterfalls, Canyons, Pandas and more!

There’s no place like home, particularly this blue marble in the galaxy better known as planet Earth. Get to know the place where you live a bit better on a virtual nature scavenger hunt that takes you from wild rivers in deep majestic canyons to snowy Alpine summits. Your Earth Day scavenger hunt starts by joining our host on Zoom, Google Meet, or your favorite video platform. You’ll form teams and then head into breakout rooms to follow a trail of clues across the Internet, with links provided by our browser-based app. We’ve curated a remarkable selection of interactive websites, and your objective will be to answer our tricky, provocative, fun questions about the natural wonders you find.

Earth’s Best includes…

• The towering Iguazu Falls in South America
• The colorful creatures of the Great Barrier Reef
• A raft ride on the wild Colorado River as it winds through the Grand Canyon
• The geological wonder of the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland
• Did we mention Earth’s most adorable creatures, pandas? Doing somersaults?

This is not a trivia game. No knowledge is required: you just need curiosity, sharp eyes, and great teamwork. This game provides a great way to engage your colleagues on a team building game that seems like an escape into the wild. For an hour, you’ll feel like you’ve left your home office behind as you plunge into the great outdoors. You’ll increase your appreciation not just for your favorite planet, but also your favorite colleagues.

The ESL Edition of this Earth Day scavenger hunt is ideal for connecting groups across the globe with a variety of fluency in English. The Kids Edition, suitable for ages 10 and up, is a teacher’s helper: students have so much fun that they are eager to keep discovering and learning. Contact us to learn more!

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!

You’ll crack up when you eggsamine these websites

Chickens—or is it bunnies?—have laid eggs all over the internet. You can find them almost hidden in art museum paintings. You can find them in natural history museums as giant dinosaur eggs and tiny hummingbird eggs. You can find them in the homes of kings and queens as Fabergé eggs, covered in jewels. You can even find monster-sized eggs lined up atop a building in Spain!

Ah, but can you really find them? This game will be your final eggsam to see if your team is all it’s cracked up to be.

Meet with Our Live Host on Zoom!

Our eggceptional Host will meet with your teams and others on Zoom. He or she will set you up with our app (it works in any browser), and you’ll be off on one-hour eggstravaganza that hops around the world, following clues that lead you to websites where you must find eggs and answer fun questions about them. It’s a mad scramble that might leave your brain fried by terrible yolks.

So hop to it! The Online Easter Egg Hunt is suitable for ages 10 and up, and each team must include one adult. This virtual Easter egg scavenger hunt is available to the general public on Easter weekend, and groups can book a private game anytime. Click below to stir yourself into this game. And now, omelet you alone…

Discover amazing people and amazing places

Get to know great Black Americans, their achievements, and the places where they lived, worked, and walked, on a team-building virtual scavenger hunt. Via Zoom or your favorite video platform, your group will meet our host, get into teams, and start exploring. You’ll follow links to a variety of eye-popping interactive websites, where you’ll be challenged to answer fun questions about what you find. No previous knowledge is required: You just need sharp eyes and good teamwork.

Along the way, your team will…

• Take a virtual seat alongside Rosa Parks on the actual bus where she refused to give up her seat
• Explore a historical house in Massachusetts that was the last stop on the Underground Railroad for such travelers as Frederick Douglass
• Listen to jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong speaking from his house in New York City
• Behold the wonderful works of Black artists in a variety of museums

These kinds of Black History Month games online are perfect for bringing together groups in celebration of Black Americans any day of the year!

A Kids Edition is also available, perfect for a virtual field trip that can foster teamwork with kids in class and at home.

Contact us to learn more!