40 Virtual Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Remote Teams
Updated September 5, 2026 7 min read
A virtual scavenger hunt works because everyone is in a different place. The same clue produces forty different answers, and the leaderboard makes it a game instead of an icebreaker. Run it on a video call with breakout rooms per team, and have every team submit to the same Trail of Hints hunt.
Plan 45 to 60 minutes. Fifteen to twenty clues, with a short debrief where the funniest submissions go on screen.
Run this list as a live hunt
One click loads every clue below into the hunt builder. Edit what you like, share one link, and every team competes on a real-time leaderboard. Free for up to 20 players.
Grab it (60-second finds)
Post these as a batch and give teams two minutes each. The speed is the fun.
- 1.Photo: something yellow
- 2.Photo: a mug with words on it
- 3.Photo: the closest book, opened to page 42
- 4.Photo: a plant, real or fake
- 5.Photo: something from a country you have visited
- 6.Photo: a childhood photo of yourself
- 7.Photo: your oldest piece of technology
- 8.Photo: something you have owned for more than ten years
- 9.Photo: a hat
- 10.Photo: a receipt from the last week
Recreate it
- 1.Photo: your team recreating a famous painting across video tiles
- 2.Photo: everyone wearing the same color at the same time
- 3.Photo: a screenshot of your team spelling a word with gestures, one letter each
- 4.Photo: the company logo made from things on your desk
- 5.Photo: a movie poster, one team member per character
- 6.Photo: everyone holding up a drawing of a teammate
- 7.Photo: your team's snacks arranged as a face
- 8.Photo: everyone with a pet or a picture of one
Know it
- 1.Trivia: how many time zones is your team spread across?
- 2.Trivia: which teammate has the longest commute when they do go to an office?
- 3.Trivia: the company's founding year
- 4.Trivia: the name of the newest hire on the call
- 5.Text: the combined number of languages spoken by your team
- 6.Text: the total number of siblings across the team
- 7.Trivia: which product feature shipped most recently?
- 8.Text: name a city where every teammate has been
Do it
- 1.Video: a 15-second team cheer, recorded on the call
- 2.Video: everyone making a paper airplane and flying it at the camera
- 3.Video: the team reading a tongue-twister in unison
- 4.Video: a virtual high-five that travels tile to tile
- 5.Video: a one-take tour of the messiest desk on the team
- 6.Video: everyone drinking water at the exact same moment
- 7.Photo: a group screenshot with every camera showing a thumbs up
- 8.Video: the team humming a song for a judge to guess
Collaborate
- 1.Text: write a limerick about the company, one line per team member
- 2.Photo: a collaborative drawing on a shared whiteboard
- 3.Text: agree on the team's official mascot and explain it in one sentence
- 4.Text: list five things every team member has in their kitchen right now
- 5.Photo: a screenshot of the team's combined step count today
- 6.Text: the team's one-sentence pitch for a new product feature
Tips for running it
- •Assign a judge who is not playing. They approve submissions live and the leaderboard stays current.
- •Use breakout rooms for teams and bring everyone back for the final three clues.
- •Save the submitted photos for the next all-hands. They are better than any slide.