Overview

Hundreds of Challenges to Compete Against the Clock!

The Ultimate Challenge is one of our most competitive events. This fast paced, fiddly and fun event has teams frantically completing short, sharp challenges against the clock.

Each team is given an Ultimate Challenge Chest filled with a veritable smorgasbord of finickity puzzles, fiendish challenges and funny activities. You’ll get a few minutes to sort through the contents and plan your strategy to best use your team’s skills.

Then the competition begins and you complete as many of the challenges as possible in five minute bursts, between chances to showcase your successes. The tempo is fast, the completion zealous and the room fills with energy in our Ultimate Challenge!

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Flexible & Beneficial Team Building

The team which best uses the strengths of each member is bound to win. The challenges test everyone’s problem solving skills, lateral thinking, dexterity and ability to work as a team under pressure - the ultimate team building challenge!

There’s something for everyone to excel at in the Ultimate Challenge; while one member is making an origami swan, another is making a balloon animal, while another is seeing how many cream crackers they can eat in a minute!

Challenges are graded in difficulty and points are awarded accordingly, so you need to think strategically to get the most points – and points mean prizes. The winning team receives medals for their efforts.

Our aim is to get you working together, but we always find the competition becomes as fierce as the fun when the teams’ enthusiasm and determination sky-rockets… This event combines logic puzzles, wacky challenges and gentle exercise to deliver a hugely valuable team building day. This can also be adapted to work as an exhilerating Ice Breaker!

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How it works

How does Ultimate Challenge work?

The Ultimate Challenge is one of our most competitive indoor team building events, for 10 to 200 people, where teams complete as many short, sharp challenges as possible against the clock. It lasts 1 to 3 hours. Here's how it runs.

  1. Open the chest

    Each team receives a chest packed with over 100 puzzles, challenges and activities.

  2. Plan your strategy

    Teams get a few minutes to sort through the contents and plan how to use their skills.

  3. Five-minute bursts

    Teams complete as many challenges as possible in five-minute bursts, with chances to showcase their successes in between.

  4. Think strategically

    Challenges are graded in difficulty, and points are awarded to match, so strategy matters.

  5. Crown the winners

    Points mean prizes, and the winning team receives medals.

What's included

What's included with Ultimate Challenge?

The Ultimate Challenge includes everything teams need to play.

  • Team chest With over 100 challenges.
  • Medals for the winning team
  • Event management and instructors

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 and more

Benefits

What are the benefits of Ultimate Challenge?

The Ultimate Challenge builds team unity and motivation through varied challenges that combine logic puzzles, wacky tasks and gentle exercise.

  • team cohesion

    Team unity

    Everyone has something to excel at, and every point counts.

  • goal setting

    Motivation

    A fast tempo and zealous competition fill the room with energy.

  • customisable

    Varied challenges

    Over 100 tasks, from origami swans to logic puzzles.

  • friendly competition

    Friendly competition

    The competition becomes as fierce as the fun.

Thanks for organising such a great event for us. Feedback from all the team has been so positive and everyone enjoyed themselves. As you know we have a wide range of ages, nationalities and physical capabilities but all was catered for. It was excellent.

EBRD

FAQs

Ultimate Challenge: Frequently Asked Questions

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.

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