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Participants: 6

The web series @SummerBreak wanted to pull out all the stops for their season finale episode, so they contacted us a few weeks ago to help them run a scavenger hunt at Venice Beach. The series follows the lives of a group of recent high school graduates on their last summer vacation before they head off to college and aired in real time over social media — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. A big part of our job was to incorporate a LIVE social media component, where the cast needed their fans’ help to complete a few of the tasks. We planned a custom event that took elements of both URBAN HUNT and THE RACE, and also required the @SummerBreak kids to have their Twitter followers play along. The hunt turned out great — you can see it on the Season Finale of @SummerBreak  — it takes up 14 minutes of the 24 minute season finale!

Participants: 100

David Tutera is a celebrity event planner and had a TV show on WE tv and one of his clients hired him to do a book launch. As a part of that experience, David wanted there to be 3 rooms with experiential team building challenges that related to the author’s book. We created custom activities and then our team ran them at the book launch event for the television show. In this event we had to not only create challenges that would satisfy David, the author and the guests, but also would make good television.  

Participants: 20

Teach for America was holding a conference before the start of the school year and wanted to spice up their agenda with a custom team building event. Their conference was held at the Annenberg Beach Club in Santa Monica, CA so we came up with a series of team building challenges for them to compete in. In an Olympic style competition, where 4 teams were each competing against each other to win, teams competed in games that tested their mental, physical and communication skills. With a backdrop of Santa Monica beaches under sunny skies, the Teach For America staff brought the competition!

Participants: 120

Toyota came to us wanting to bring together their Southern California staff for an afternoon of team building. They loved our Urban Hunt event, but wanted to do an event in the South Bay area which does not have easily accessible public transportation. Due to this, we created a customized Urban Rally event for over 100 people taking them on an adventure throughout the South Bay in the greater Los Angeles area using cars. In addition to creating challenges and puzzles, Toyota also asked us to incorporate the 4 Toyota Brand Pillars into their course which include 1) Inspiring 2) Innovative 3) Exciting and 4) A New Toyota. Teams spent three hours discovering new parts of the beach cities while getting to know their fellow Toyota employees better being forced to communicate and problem solve throughout the course solving clues.

Participants: 10

Mitch is a Survivor superfan so he wanted to bring together his best buds to play in a version of his favorite TV game show so that’s exactly what we delivered! We headed to Afton State Park, Minnesota with a group of 10 friends and strangers for a 1 night, 1 day game. From the start this group of gamers played the game with intensity starting with blindsides and big moves at the very first tribal council. As the game continued the tribes competed in physical and mental challenges, shifted alliances an had to adapt to brand new twists in the game.  Although he didn’t Outlast his friends to win his own birthday party, Mitch couldn’t have been happier getting to turn his Survivor dreams into his reality.

Participants: 18

When Scott reached out to us to tell us he wanted to plan a surprise Outlast birthday party weekend for his best friend Survivor superfan Nate, we couldn’t have been more excited to help plan this blindside! Working closely with Scott we gathered a group of 18 friends to camp at Leo Carillo State Beach in Malibu California to celebrate their friend Scott’s 30th birthday. From a Friday night to a Sunday afternoon we threw this group into their own Survivor-like world. With the backdrop of rugged cliffed beaches with caves, off the grid camp spots, hidden idols, tribal council in the forest this group of friends got the Survivor experience they dreamed of and are still talking about it today.

Participants: 16

A group of friends from Boston College brought us in to turn their annual reunion weekend into a game of mystery, deceit and sabotage. Flying in from all over the country, this group plays a game every year together so we were thrilled to have the chance to make them play Sabotage. Over three days this group competed at full throttle from start to finish! At one point in the game, the eventual winner chose to take an exemption and force other players to sleep outside with no supplies. Let’s just say fireworks erupted! Everyone was in it to win it!

Participants: 16

A group of friends and strangers in Los Angeles wanted to play in a realistic version of TV’s The Mole, which is exactly what our game Sabotage delivers. Unlike the TV show, we decided to surprise the players from the start and introduce our own signature twist to the game that instead of 1 Saboteur in the game, we had actually planted two, however, they did not know the identity of the other and were not only playing the game as The Saboteur but also as a contestant trying to correctly figure out who the other Saboteur in the game was to ensure their safety as the surviving traitor. Over 3 days, this group of mostly strangers bonded and became friends through working together on tasks while at the same time trying to figure out who the traitor.

Participants: 11 

The USC Orientation Staff wanted an out-of-the-box team building experience to kick off the new school year so we pitched them a 1 day version of TV’s The Mole and they absolutely loved it. Before the event 1 player was selected to be The Saboteur and we secretly worked with them leading up to the event. When it came time to completing team challenges to earn prizes, the Saboteur was secretly working against the rest. Unlike the standard version of Sabotage, where players get eliminated throughout the game by quizzes on the identity for the Saboteur, we adjusted this event so no one was eliminated. Instead, The group took 3 quizzes total throughout the course of the game. The player with the most number of correct answers in the end was crowned the winner.

Participants: 16 

A group of friends that recently moved to LA after graduating from college hired us to run The Race so they could explore their new home! Challenge accepted! Starting in Griffith Park we created a course that took them all over the city including Hollywood, Downtown LA, Silverlake, Beverly Hills, Chinatown, Santa Monica and Los Feliz. At the end of the game teams criss-crossed and learned all about their new city while creating strong bonds with one another.

Participants: 16 

The staff of E! Live Events wanted to take their work out of office for a break with some friendly competition exploring the greater Los Angeles area. Starting in iconic Griffith Park with a view of the Observatory and the Hollywood Sign, we wanted to take the E! staff on an adventure that was fitting for television, after all we knew the bar would be set high for a bunch of television producers! From Hollywood to DTLA to the beaches and back, the E! Staff raced their legs and hearts out all over the City of Angels in an intense battle to be the first and final standing team.

Participants: 40 

Shalhevet High School wanted to do something special for their outgoing senior class during Senior Week so they hired us to create an URBAN HUNT event for the students. They wanted it to take place in Santa Monica, CA so we designed a course that took them to some of Santa Monica’s most iconic landmarks such as the Ferris Wheel and Pier, but also off the grid to lesser known spots. The event was also designed without the use of public transportation so everything was easily walkable (or runnable) for the students. The high school seniors said it was the highlight of their senior week which showed because Shalhevet hired us multiple times to continue the tradition for its students.

Participants: 400 (four 100 person events)

We were approached by Yelp to create a series of Urban Hunt events for Yelp users in Los Angeles. We designed two completely separate courses which included stops in Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Chinatown, Olvera Street, and Little Tokyo . We encouraged the Yelp teams of two to dress up in fun costumes and teams delivered. 

Participants: 30

Optimatic, a company that offers top tier media campaigns for clients, came to us wanting to spice up their traditional company meetings by throwing their staff into an interactive adventure with one another. We traveled to New York City where we spent 3 full days scouting and creating the event course.  New York City is the perfect spot for Urban Hunt dreams! We were excited to take the Optimatic employees to lesser known neighborhoods where teams had to work together solving clues. Maximizing the subway system we were able to create a course that took the teams all over the city. This was a special client for Pete who started his game roots in New York as a teen. The Optimatic team had so much fun that they hired us back several more times over the subsequent years.

Participants: 50 (team of 4)

Turner approached us to create a fun-filled team building event in downtown Chicago for their staff of over 50 people. We traveled to Chicago, spent 3 full days scouting out the city and turning some of the best spots into an exciting course of puzzles and challenges. Turner employees were so excited to spend time outside of the office and in their beautiful while city solving clues to earn the most amount of points. The event was loved so much by the staff that Turner hired us back to plan and run an entirely new course from scratch again! We especially loved doing this event in Chicago because it took Justin back to his hometown roots, where he ran his first adventure game when he was 15 years old.

Participants: 16

Lance Bass is most well known for his days as a member of N*Synch, but did you know he also has a passion for reality TV game shows?! One of his faves is Big Brother so he approached us to put himself along with his friends into a Big Brother-like world full of evictions. From a Friday night to a Sunday afternoon, 12 houseguests battled it out for the ultimate title including Soprano’s star Jamie Lynne Sigler and husband  baseball player Cutter Dykstra, Big Brother legend Dan Gheesling and his wife Chelsea, Lisa Delcampo from Netflix’s The Circle and more. After 3 days of blindside intense challenges and strategizing it was actress Sara Paxton who remained standing in the house as the winner.

Participants: 13

A group of entertainment professionals living in LA hired us to turn their Palm Springs vacation into an EVICTION. The crew rented two houses 1 game house and 1 jury house. All players started off in the game house and 1 by 1 they were voted out and sent to a jury house where we had a live feed streaming from the game house for them to watch. With every challenge and round of the game this group of old and new friends battled it out in a competitive, fun-filled and backstabbing game.

Participants: 13

For her 30th birthday our Big Brother superfan client wanted to do something big to kick off her new decade and she got just that! The Reality Rush team flew to Seattle, WA where we took over two houses (1 game house, 1 jury house) to organize an EVICTION birthday bash. Throughout the game this group of friends and family members played with the intensity of being on the real show. Big moves, blindsides, twist and turns made for an unpredictable adventure to the end. Our superfan birthday client didn’t end up winning the game, but ended up winning the best birthday party of her life!

Participants: 12

Lance Bass is most well known for his days as a member of N*Synch, but did you know he also has a passion for reality TV game shows?! One of his faves is Big Brother so he approached us to put himself along with his friends into a Big Brother-like world full of evictions. From a Friday night to a Sunday afternoon, 12 houseguests battled it out for the ultimate title including Soprano’s star Jamie Lynne Sigler and husband  baseball player Cutter Dykstra, Big Brother legend Dan Gheesling and his wife Chelsea, Lisa Delcampo from Netflix’s The Circle and more. After 3 days of blindside intense challenges and strategizing it was actress Sara Paxton who remained standing in the house as the winner.