If your group wants to have an enjoyable and thrilling experience as they work and compete in mini-teams, you can book CourseHorse's virtual murder mystery team-building activities. These activities will have your group working together to solve puzzles and challenges that will help them reach the goal. Virtual murder mystery team-building activities are great for building bonds among group members, encouraging teamwork to solve problems, and improving communication skills.
There are several benefits to booking with CourseHorse, including no booking fees, having an event provider assigned to you to answer your questions, being able to change your group size after booking, and having engaging and professional instructors or facilitators lead your group. CourseHorse also offers customizations for your event (for an additional fee) and can accommodate video conferencing platforms other than Zoom such as Microsoft Teams, Google Meets, and Webex.
Benefits of Murder Mystery Team Building Activities
Murder mystery team-building activities are a fun and unique way to motivate your group at your business or organization. In these activities, large groups will split into mini teams to collaborate as they solve puzzles and mysteries, complete challenges, or answer haunting trivia questions. Your group will learn more about each other and have plenty of opportunities to bond as they work together to compete in these interactive escape challenges and fun trivia games.
Top Virtual Murder Mystery Team Building Activities
Virtual Escape Room: Murder Mystery
For a highly entertaining and interactive team-building experience, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Escape Room: Murder Mystery challenge for groups of up to 200 people. In this 75-minute thrilling activity, your group's puzzle-solving skills will be put to the test as they work together to solve riddles, puzzles, and challenges to virtually escape the room. In the scenario you are given, you and your team are trainees in the CHPD (CourseHorse Puzzle Detectives) and are dispatched to a high school reunion where a star quarterback is found dead on the floor. As a CHPD trainee, your job is to solve clues to find the murderer who lurks among the students. A high-energy facilitator will guide your groups to ensure that everything runs smoothly and that you have all the information you need to solve the case. Your team will find evidence to help them complete the challenges and interpret clues in the form of character descriptions, virtual maps, audio and video clips, and mini-games.
Virtual Escape Room: Murder Mystery (45 minutes)
If your group is looking for a virtual escape challenge that's shorter in duration but just as fun, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Escape Room: Murder Mystery (45 minutes) for groups of up to 200 people. Your group will be split into mini teams and have 45 minutes to solve puzzles and answer riddles that will get them closer to reaching the goal. The group facilitator will start by providing you with the following scenario: you are at your high school reunion and having a great time when one of your classmates goes missing and you are all mysteriously locked in the gym. Someone is leaving taunting clues that your team will have to solve to identify the murderer before they strike again. You'll gather evidence and solve puzzles in the form of character descriptions, virtual maps, audio and video clips, and mini-games. This activity offers plenty of opportunities to bond with your mini group as well as interact with the whole group throughout the challenge.
Virtual Escape Room: Halloween Haunted House
For an exciting Halloween murder mystery challenge, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Escape Room: Halloween Haunted House for groups of up to 200 people. In this virtual escape experience, individuals will break into mini-groups and have 75 minutes to work together to escape a haunted mansion before being trapped there forever. In this scenario, you are attending a lavish dinner at an old mansion when the host poisons your food, forcing you to work quickly to find the antidote. Your group facilitator will provide engaging details of the story and the information you need to reach your goal. Your mini-group will work together to solve puzzles and clues in the form of virtual maps, audio and video clips, character descriptions, and fun games. While mainly working in small groups, you will have the chance to interact with the whole group throughout the experience.
Virtual Trivia: True Crime
CourseHorse's Virtual Trivia: True Crime is perfect for true crime buffs and amateur detectives who can't help but watch every crime special on Netflix. In this popular one-hour challenge for groups of up to 200 people, large groups will be split into mini teams that will work together to answer true crime trivia. Your group will be challenged but still have fun as they bond and work cooperatively in their mini-teams and compete with others. Your group facilitator will provide questions to test your knowledge of your favorite Netflix shows, podcasts, and lesser-known tales from the dark web. Trivia is perfect for large groups as you will have breakout rooms with your mini team to provide everyone a chance to interact.
Other Unique Team Building Activities
If your group likes true crime, puzzle-solving, and thrillers, CourseHorse offers other options for team-building activities that are equally as exciting and unique as solving murder mysteries. In these activities, your group will work in small teams to solve mysterious puzzles and answer chilling trivia questions. These activities are perfect for groups looking for some excitement as they take a break from their normal work duties and compete in a fun, collaborative challenge.
Virtual Escape Room: Jumanji
In CourseHorse's Virtual Escape Room: Jumanji challenge for groups of up to 200 people, your group will have 75 minutes to work together to solve interactive puzzles and answer unique riddles. In the scenario given to you, you and your team are heading to the gift shop to buy a souvenir after a day at the zoo when you discover a dusty old game on sale called Jumanji. When you leave the zoo, the game bursts open and starts setting up on its own, prompting you to play. What could go wrong? Your group will have plenty of fun in this challenge as they solve puzzles in the form of character descriptions, virtual maps, audio and video clips, and mini-games. The group facilitator will ensure that everything runs smoothly as they provide engaging prompts for your team to follow. Also, while the majority of the time will be spent in mini-groups, you'll have opportunities to interact with the large group as well.
Virtual Escape Room: The Upside Down
If Dungeons and Dragons, the Upside Down, and Demogorgons sound familiar or intriguing, chances are you would be interested in CourseHorse's Virtual Escape Room: The Upside Down challenge. In this thrilling 75-minute challenge for groups of up to 200 people, your group will be split up into mini teams that will compete to see who can escape the horrifying upside-down world you are trapped in. In the scenario provided to you, it's 1983 and you are leaving your friend's house after playing a round of Dungeons and Dragons. Suddenly, you see a swirling essence at the end of the road and find yourself being pulled into it. Everything is cold and dark and although the same buildings are there, the world you find yourself trapped in is anything but normal. Sprawling mountains, floating rocks, and cosmic horrors are some of the things you see in the Upside Down dimension. How will you escape? Your high-energy group facilitator will provide you with all the clues you need to solve the challenge, including character descriptions, virtual maps, and audio and video clips.
Virtual Trivia: Stranger Things
If your group loves discussing the abundance of horror and mystery in every episode of Stranger Things, chances are they will love competing in CourseHorse's Virtual Trivia: Stranger Things. In this one-hour trivia challenge for groups of up to 200 people, your group's knowledge of this popular show will be put to the test as they collaborate in teams and compete with one another. Your group will prove if they have been paying attention as they compete in four rounds of trivia: a traditional round, a music round, an image round, and a surprise round. CourseHorse designs the trivia to be challenging, but not to make your group feel hopeless.
Virtual Escape Room: The Final Frontier
For a unique cosmic experience, groups of up to 200 people can compete in the Virtual Escape Room: The Final Frontier challenge. In this 75-minute escape challenge, mini teams will work collaboratively as they answer riddles, solve puzzles, and play mini-games to uncover clues that will lead them to the goal. In the scenario you are provided, you are an astronaut going into space on a dangerous mission to find the lost planet, Pluto. After splitting up the large group into mini teams, the facilitator will provide you with clues to solve in the form of character descriptions, virtual maps, and audio and video clips. Your mini teams will then work in breakout rooms to collaboratively solve puzzles in order to unlock the next challenge, competing against the other groups to finish first. While working primarily in your small group, there will be opportunities to interact with the larger group as well.
Virtual Escape Room: Pirate Treasure Hunt
CourseHorse's popular escape room challenge, the Virtual Escape Room: Pirate Treasure Hunt will have your group working together to solve puzzles and complete challenges in a race to find the buried treasure. In this highly interactive experience for groups of up to 200 people, your group will split into mini-teams to solve puzzles and interpret clues in the form of character descriptions, virtual maps, audio and video clips, and mini-games. In the scenario for this escape challenge, you and your crew embark on a perilous journey to find Captain William Kidd's buried treasure. The path you must take promises rough seas and tough competition as you race to find the treasure before the other crews. A high-energy facilitator will ensure that everything runs smoothly as they provide your group with all the information needed to solve the puzzles and unlock the challenges. The majority of time will be spent in your mini-teams but there will be some opportunity to interact with the whole group as well.
Virtual Escape Room: Villainous
Virtual Escape Room: Villainous will have your group changing up the ending to classic fairy tales as they work together to become the most sinister villain. In this 75-minute escape room challenge for groups of up to 200 people, your group will be given puzzles and clues in the form of character descriptions, virtual maps, audio and video clips, and mini-games as they work collaboratively to escape the room. The group facilitator will start by providing the following scenario: Your favorite characters in every story have always been the villains, but they never seem to win. When you find yourself being magically pulled into the pages of a book, you realize this might be your chance to change up the stories and give the villains a chance to reign victorious. Your facilitator will split your group into mini teams of four to six people who will work in breakout rooms to solve the puzzles and challenges, bringing you one step closer to becoming the wickedest villain of them all.
Virtual Escape Room: Monsters & Ghouls
If you are looking for a scarily fun experience, book the Virtual Escape Room: Monsters & Ghouls for groups of up to 200 people. In this escape challenge, groups will have 75 minutes to save Halloween from the ghosts, ghouls, and villains that are wreaking havoc at Madam Grim's annual monster ball. Working in mini-groups, participants will work together to solve clues and puzzles in the form of virtual maps, audio and video clips, and character descriptions, as well as complete mini-games to gather more information. While working primarily in mini-groups, individuals will also have the chance to interact with the entire group throughout the experience. An engaging host will facilitate your experience to give you a thrilling and enjoyable escape room challenge.