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Event Overview
Cryptic clues, silly challenges and logical puzzles make exploring a city much more memorable. With your team, you’ll get to navigate your way past Radcliffe Camera and Oxford Castle Prison, straight to victory!
Before you get to explore Oxford, each team will be given a high-tech tablet equipped with an interactive treasure map, a running leader board and live locations. You’ll need to navigate your way down narrow, cobblestoned alleyways and modern high streets flanked by Gothic buildings, all the while strategising with your team to complete the challenges and win!
GOTO Events offers a variety of other fun team building activities in Oxford!
Treasure Map ideas
Explore Oxford's Historic Sites and Hidden Gems
While all of GOTO Events’ treasure maps are completely bespoke, we do have a few suggestions for iconic Oxford sites to include:
- University of Oxford: Founded in 1096 and spanning more than 1,327 acres across Oxford, it’ll be hard to miss the grand, stunningly diverse architecture and dreaming spires on your treasure hunt.
- Carfax Tower: By law the tallest building in Oxford city centre at 74 feet, the building stands in the middle of a 12th-century crossroads, a perfect place for a challenge.
- Bodleian Library: If you struggle with a puzzle, you might find inspiration or even answers in one of the 12 million items in the Bodleian Library collection, or in the beauty of the domed Radcliffe Camera.
- Oxford Castle: What is a treasure hunt without a notorious, haunted prison en route? With its 1,000 years of history, the castle once saw Empress Matilda escape a siege by slipping into the snow dressed in all white after three months of captivity.
- Ashmolean Museum: Try to outsmart your competition in front of Britain's first public museum from 1683, home to global collections of art and archeology.
- Hidden Gems: For a completely different experience, take your team to The Ultimate Picture Palace with its retro facade, perfect for a photo challenge, or The Turf Tavern, a Morse-style pub, enclosed by medieval walls and only accessible down a narrow passageway, once known as Hell’s Passage, underneath the Bridge of Sighs. If you play your cards right, you might even see a shark going through someone’s roof!
An Oxford map from a prior GOTO Events’ treasure hunt. Your treasure map will be tailored to your team and organisation, but it will look similar to this!
Event Features
FORMAT
IN PERSON
VENUE
OUTDOOR
LOCATION
UK WIDE
GROUP SIZE
10 - 1000
DURATION
1 - 3 HOURS
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What’s Included
- iPad for each team
- Bespoke Oxford treasure hunt route
- Dedicated virtual map for your location
- All props and event equipment
- Experienced event staff and event manager
- Fully trained first aider
- Full event set-up and pack-down
- Fully mobile team – we travel to your chosen venue, anywhere in the UK
- Free venue-finding service
- Public liability insurance
- Full risk assessment
How It Works
- Prior to the event, we'll enquire about any specific sites in Oxford you want to explore and create a bespoke treasure map, which won't be revealed till the event.
- On the day, you'll meet at the starting point, either your office or a hired venue, and divide into teams. Each team will then be equipped with an iPad with a treasure map displaying the leader board and real-time location of the teams.
- You'll need to crack the cryptic clues and move around the treasure map to every location, where you'll find secret challenges revealed on the screen. Complete all of the challenges to dominate the leader board!
- Oxford treasure hunt challenges and games include:
- Video challenges
- Photo missions
- Puzzles and riddles
- Augmented reality games
- Keep an eye on the leader board to make sure you stay ahead.
- Once everyone makes it to the final location, we will have prepared a presentation with funny videos and pictures from the treasure hunt for everyone to enjoy. We'll also announce the winner and celebrate with a proper award ceremony.
Outcomes
Oxford Treasure Hunt is a team building activity intended to help teams improve communication, collaboration and teamwork through various challenging and fun tasks.
Shared decision-making
Navigation
Unlock hidden talents
Improved communication
Task delegation
Resourcefulness
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Oxford Treasure Hunt FAQs
During an Oxford Treasure Hunt, corporate teams are given an iPad with a live treasure map, taking them on a bespoke route through Oxford. At each location, teams will solve puzzles and complete fun challenges, before heading back to the starting point, where the winner will be crowned and everyone gets to enjoy the highlights of the treasure hunt!
Oxford Treasure Hunts are suitable to both small and large groups, as the activity can easily be tailored to between 10 and 1,000 participants.
As the route is bespoke, an Oxford Treasure Hunt can last between 1 and 3 hours, depending on your group’s size and preference.
No, you don’t need a specific outdoor space for an Oxford Treasure Hunt, as the route will be bespoke to your organisation, starting and finishing either at your office, a hired venue or a pre-selected public space.
GOTO Events is fully mobile and bring all necessary equipment for an Oxford Treasure Hunt, including high-tech tablets with a running leader board and a treasure map, so you can focus on the event without worrying about logistics.
As an Oxford Treasure Hunt takes place outside and requires plenty of walking, participants should wear comfortable and weather-appropriate shoes and clothes.
No, an Oxford Treasure Hunt is not particularly physically demanding, but it does require plenty of walking, sometimes uphill.
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