Ultimate Challenge

Ultimate Challenge is a fast-paced indoor team-building event packed with dozens of short, fiddly and unusual mini-challenges. Teams have a limited amount of time to decide which challenges to tackle, balancing easier tasks for steady points against harder challenges that offer bigger bonuses.

The Challenge Chest contains a deliberately varied mixture of puzzles, practical tasks and quirky activities. Some challenges might reward dexterity or creativity, while others require lateral thinking or a particular team member's individual skill.

Yes. The full event runs for one to three hours, so it can be scaled to fit around a conference programme. If you only have an hour, a shorter icebreaker version is also available to energise delegates quickly.

The challenges are graded according to difficulty. Teams can work through easier tasks quickly to collect lots of individual points, or spend longer attempting trickier challenges that offer larger bonuses. The winning strategy is therefore about deciding where to spend your team's limited time.

No. The strategy is deciding which challenges are worth attempting during the allotted time. Because the tasks have different difficulty levels and rewards, teams need to choose whether to accumulate points through easier challenges or gamble their time on the more difficult ones.

No. In fact, the variety of challenges means teams benefit from recognising different strengths within the group. Someone might be good at a practical task while another person excels at a puzzle or creative challenge, so sharing jobs and using the right person for each task is central to the game.

Ultimate Challenge is designed for groups of around 10 to 200 people. Larger groups can be split into competing teams, allowing everyone to take part in the challenges while the scores are tracked throughout the session.

Ultimate Challenge lasts one to three hours, depending on your schedule and the number of challenges included. That gives teams time to tackle a wide range of tasks before the scores are added up and the winning team receives its medals.

The challenges are varied rather than being a single physical test. The emphasis is on quick thinking, teamwork, planning and choosing the right challenges, with activities ranging from puzzles and fiddly tasks to deliberately quirky challenges.

The full Ultimate Challenge runs for one to three hours and can include additional unusual activities and more challenging logical puzzles. The icebreaker version is a shorter, one-hour format designed to fit between conference sessions.