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Indoor
Saboteurs
Overview
Team Challenges of Trust, Strategy, and Deception
Paying homage to the hit TV show The Traitors, this thrilling team event throws your group into a world of strategy, suspicion, and cunning problem-solving. Working in teams, you’ll tackle a variety of fast-paced mental, creative, and practical challenges, but with one major twist… Hidden among your teammates are Traitors - silent saboteurs whose mission is to disrupt your progress, sow confusion, and lead your team astray.
Success in each challenge earns valuable points – but a single act of betrayal can cost you dearly. Collaboration, clear communication, and a sharp eye for deception will be key to your team’s survival.
Perfect for indoor team building, this event can take place in your offices, a hotel, or a conference space. It’s designed to get everyone engaged, energised, and laughing, while also testing teamwork, observation, and trust. Saboteurs is suitable for all abilities and focuses more on mental agility than physical demands.
About
Event Format
Our Event Manager will begin with a briefing, explaining the rules, nominating the traitors, and - most importantly - warning you that not everyone can be trusted.
Over the course of the session, teams will move through a series of cerebral challenges, each requiring creativity, logic, and communication to complete successfully. But be wary - traitors may quietly disrupt progress, steering the group off track or casting suspicion elsewhere.
After each challenge, teams will meet at their Round Table, where the truth begins to unravel. Here, you’ll question, accuse, and debate, desperately trying to expose the traitors hidden among you. Can you uncover the deceivers? Or will they continue to quietly dismantle your team from within?
At the end of the event, medals await the victors - those who navigated the lies, the laughter, and the logic to emerge triumphant.
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About
A Brilliantly Engaging Team Experience
Saboteurs is ideal for teams looking for a fun, fast-moving, and thought-provoking challenge. It encourages communication, builds trust, and reveals how teams operate under pressure. Expect laughter, tension, strategy… and perhaps a little betrayal along the way.
How it works
How does Saboteurs work?
Saboteurs is a Traitors-style indoor team building event for 8 to 250 people, lasting around two to three hours. Teams compete in a series of challenges while secret traitors try to sabotage them from within. Here's how the event runs, step by step.
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The briefing and secret selection
Your Event Manager explains the rules and warns everyone that not all of their teammates can be trusted. The traitors are then silently selected.
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Plan your strategy
Teams have a few moments to read their colleagues' reactions, agree a strategy, work out how to use their strengths and decide who they can trust.
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Take on the challenges
Teams complete fast-paced mental, creative and practical challenges that call for lateral thinking and logic. Points are earned through success but lost through deceit, as the traitors quietly sabotage progress and build false alliances.
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Gather at the Round Table
Between rounds, teams meet at their Round Table to question loyalties, make accusations and try to expose the saboteurs in their midst.
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Crown the winners
Points mean prizes. The team that best combines skill, intuition and teamwork claims victory and is awarded medals.
What's included
What's included with Saboteurs?
Every Saboteurs event comes fully managed, with everything your group needs to play.
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Event management and experienced instructors A professional Event Manager briefs your group and runs the event from start to finish.
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Challenges for all teams A full set of mental, creative and practical challenges for every team.
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Traitors theming Theming that sets the scene for trust, suspicion and betrayal.
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Medals for the winning team Awarded to the team that finishes with the most points.
Optional extras
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Event photography or filming
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Upgraded prizes: champagne, chocolates or trophies
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Team clothing: T-shirts, caps or cloaks
Benefits
What are the benefits of Saboteurs?
Saboteurs builds team cohesion and communication through strategy, trust and friendly competition. Because it relies on mental agility rather than physical ability, it's an inclusive team building activity that everyone in your group can enjoy.
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Team cohesion
Working together to uncover the traitors brings colleagues closer, as teams learn to read one another, share ideas and rely on each other under pressure.
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Communication
Every Round Table has teams questioning, listening and debating, so clear communication and careful listening become the key to success.
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Broad appeal
No physical demands and no experience needed. Saboteurs focuses on mental agility, logic and strategy, so everyone can take part on equal terms.
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Friendly competition
Points, medals and a healthy dose of suspicion keep energy levels high, leaving your team buzzing long after the final reveal.
It’s been an absolute pleasure working with The Team Building Company. Everything was meticulously organised and their communication throughout was excellent. I look forward to working with them again.
Carike
FAQs
Saboteurs: Frequently Asked Questions
Saboteurs is an indoor game of teamwork, suspicion and hidden betrayal. Participants tackle mental, creative and practical challenges while secretly selected traitors attempt to disrupt their progress without being identified.
The Event Manager explains the rules during the opening briefing and privately nominates the traitors. The remaining participants begin the challenges knowing that somebody within their team may be steering them in the wrong direction.
Their job is to sabotage progress discreetly. They might encourage an unhelpful strategy, create confusion or redirect suspicion towards an innocent colleague, but they need to remain subtle enough to survive the Round Table discussions.
Teams complete a series of cerebral activities involving logic, creativity and communication. Success earns points, but poor decisions or well-timed sabotage can reduce the benefit of an otherwise capable performance.
After each challenge, teams pause to discuss suspicious behaviour, question one another and decide who might be betraying the group. These conversations can be as important as the challenges because a convincing traitor may redirect the entire debate.
No. The indoor format focuses more on mental agility, observation and communication than physical performance. This makes it accessible to mixed corporate groups with different levels of fitness and confidence.
Yes. It can be delivered at suitable offices, hotels and conference venues across the UK. The indoor format also makes it a practical option when organisers do not want their team event to depend on the weather.
The event runs for approximately two to three hours. It can work as a standalone indoor team-building session or as the main interactive element within a company conference or away day.
Saboteurs is suitable for approximately 8 to 250 participants. The group is organised into teams, allowing the challenges and suspicions to remain manageable even when the wider event contains a large number of delegates.
The betrayal exists firmly within a playful, facilitated game. The exaggerated suspicions and Round Table accusations usually generate laughter, while the structure gives teams an unusual way to explore trust, assumptions and group decision-making.