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Indoor
Crystal Challenge
Overview
Team Challenges to Test the Mind
Paying tribute to the famous TV show ‘Crystal Maze’, the Crystal Challenge event pitches your group into an exciting and unique team building experience with ingenious cerebral and spatial challenges.
Just like on TV, the successful completion of each task is rewarded with crystals that will be tallied at the end to find the winning team. This event combines competition and teamwork in an enthralling set of team building challenges.
Usually outdoors, we have adapted this most popular of events to move inside. Perfect for winter teambuilding, we will run this day from your offices, a hotel or conference centre. We have an awesome suite of custom built kit developed and perfected over the last 25 years.
The day can be used to reflect any number of relevant key values including communication, trust, leadership and planning. The Indoor Crystal Challenge is one of our less physically demanding events, exercising the mind rather than the muscles. More than anything though, the activities are great fun!
About
The Event Format
Our Event Manager will brief you on the format of the event before splitting the group into teams of about eight people.
After approximately 20-25 minutes, the whistle goes and teams rotate around to the next challenge. Friendly competition becomes very enthusiastic as teams maximise their performance for more crystals!
This event is great for those who’d like a teambuilding experience which is not only fun, but also relevant to business. The activities in the Indoor Crystal Challenge are easily relatable to the office. The characteristics of leadership, lateral-thinking, planning, and team work that they are designed to foster, are all great business assets.
The Indoor Crystal Challenge needs a venue with a reasonably large indoor space, your offices may work well, or you might prefer a hotel – have a chat with our friendly staff who can discuss suitability or suggest a venue near you.
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How it works
How does Crystal Challenge work?
The Indoor Crystal Challenge is a team building event inspired by TV's Crystal Maze, for 10 to 200 people, where teams win crystals by completing cerebral and spatial challenges. It lasts 2 to 4 hours. Here's how it runs.
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The briefing
Our Event Manager explains the format and splits the group into teams of about eight people.
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Take on the challenges
Teams tackle a series of mental and physical challenges, which can include Brunel, Paper Towers, Dilithium Run, Interlocker, Cube Conundrum, NASA Moon Project and Microdot.
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Rotate on the whistle
After 20 to 25 minutes, the whistle blows and teams move on to the next challenge.
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Win crystals
Every successful task earns crystals, and teams push harder as the competition builds.
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Crown the winners
Crystals are counted at the end, and the winning team receives medals.
What's included
What's included with Crystal Challenge?
The Indoor Crystal Challenge is tailored to your group and fully run by our team.
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A combination of challenges Selected according to your group size and budget.
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Medals for the winning team
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Event management and experienced 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: shirts, caps and more
Benefits
What are the benefits of Crystal Challenge?
The Indoor Crystal Challenge builds communication, problem solving and team cohesion through challenges that relate directly to the workplace.
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Communication
Every challenge depends on teams sharing ideas and instructions clearly.
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Problem solving
Lateral thinking and planning are the keys to winning crystals.
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Team cohesion
Leadership, planning and teamwork are all skills that transfer straight back to the office.
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Friendly competition
The race for crystals keeps the enthusiasm high all event long.
It was a good mixture of challenges so there was something for everyone! It allowed me to give the team the chance to have some fun but in a productive and challenging way.
Wimbledon
FAQs
Crystal Challenge: Frequently Asked Questions
The Indoor Crystal Challenge is a team-building event inspired by TV's Crystal Maze. Teams rotate around a series of mental and physical challenges, winning crystals for every successful task. The team with the most crystals at the end is crowned the winner.
The challenges mix cerebral puzzles with spatial and practical tasks. Depending on your group, they can include Brunel, Paper Towers, Dilithium Run, Interlocker, Cube Conundrum, NASA Moon Project and Microdot, each testing a different combination of logic, planning and coordination.
Every challenge successfully completed earns the team crystals. As the competition builds and the tally grows, teams push harder to win as many as possible before the final count.
After a briefing from our Event Manager, the group is split into teams of about eight people. Each team then moves around the challenges, with instructors explaining every task before the team decides how to tackle it.
Teams spend around 20 to 25 minutes on each challenge. When the whistle blows, everyone moves on to the next one, which keeps the pace brisk and the energy high throughout the event.
No. Some challenges are practical and hands-on, but the emphasis is on thinking, communicating and working together rather than fitness. That means everyone in the group can play a meaningful part.
Yes. Because the challenges vary so much, different people come to the fore at different stations. The colleague who struggles with a logic puzzle may be exactly the person needed to crack the next spatial task.
The event lasts approximately two to four hours, depending on the number of challenges selected. It works well as a half-day activity or alongside meetings and a conference programme.
The Indoor Crystal Challenge is suitable for approximately 10 to 200 people. Larger groups are divided into more teams, so every participant stays actively involved rather than watching from the sidelines.
The challenges call for clear communication, lateral thinking, leadership and planning under time pressure. These are the same skills teams rely on back in the office, which makes the lessons easy to carry over into everyday work.