Mix & Match Teamwork Challenges

Basher Build Erect your tent as quickly as possible. To make things difficult your tent erectors are blindfolded and will need to follow your instructions. Planning, communication, delegation, time management and leadership will help to get the tent up before it rains.

Bermuda Triangle Your battleship has just entered the Bermuda Triangle. It's a code red and your radar and computer equipment has malfunctioned. With planning and teamwork will you sink the enemy before they sink you?

Bomb Disposal Time is ticking away and your team must diffuse the bomb or risk KABOOM! Utilise good communication, problem solving, planning and a steady hand to filter information, decipher riddles to identify the correct sequence to defuse the bomb.

Caricature Team Builiding Caricaturing is about observing detail and transferring it accurately to the sketch. The success and efficiency of a business can depend on its attention to detail. Focusing on creativity, this workshop outlines the basics of cartoon sketching and techniques of caricaturing.

Conundrum The team must solve a series of mental challenges - giant wooden blocks and fish heads and tails to form words. Can your team work together to meet the challenge?

Co-ordinate How good are you at solving cryptic clues? The fewer clues you need to locate certain places and landmarks, the more points you will score. A cognitive task to challenge your planning and time management.

Egg Launch Eggstraordinary challenge to build a freestanding launch pad for your precious egg. This challenge eggsamines your planning, lateral thinking and team dynamic. Eggcell and eggceed or get egg on your face.

Giant Crossword A substantial challenge requiring communication, delegation and teamwork. You have all the answers and what you need to know is all there; will you beat the clock?

Giant Ski Race Four people, facing in different directions on two giant skis must, through co-ordination, teamwork and balance, manoeuvre themselves through the slalom, round the roundabout, over the bar and back. Sound frustrating? It is.

Gin & Tonic Looked forward to that long cool G&T all day? Mixing your drink will not be easy, as you must concoct the perfect G&T using some strange equipment and materials. A physical challenge which will test your delegation and lateral thinking.

Giraffe Balance height against strength when building the tallest giraffe possible out of newspaper and sticky tape. Will your planning and teamwork pay off? Will your giraffe stand by itself for at least 10 seconds?

Grid A life-size puzzle laid out before your very eyes but you don't know what the finished result should look like. Under the guidance of your leader your team must fit all the pieces together. Communication is key as is leadership, delegation and time management.

Hold the Front Page Script, edit and publish the front page of a newspaper. Team members must collaborate closely to source material and share responsibility and accountability. Don't believe everything you read in the papers.

Human Machine Creative teamwork with plenty of lateral thinking involved. Can your team build a human machine that has moving parts, has a name and makes a noise? Great fun watching your team members try to imitate a car wash or a snow plough!

Human Sheep Herding Divide your team into two, grab some musical instruments and create your own communication system. Your 'blind' human sheep must trust you to herd them safely to their pen - avoiding contaminated droppings, gullies and the big bad wolf.

Indoor Launch Outdo your competition to build a self-propelled, trigger released vehicle. Careful communication, planning and time management will hopefully help you to win the day.

Jigsaw Just like the real thing only larger than life size. Communicate well and effectively manage your time to complete the jigsaw within the deadline.

Magic Carpet Your Genie is on a work to rule and you are stuck in the desert with only a near defunct magic carpet for company. This is a physical challenge in which you must plan and work together to collect items that will restore the carpet's lost magic.

Minefield Laid out before your team is a minefield. Harnessed together, it is your task to get all your team members across to the other side....safely. Test out your leadership, communication and steady feet!

Mini Squares Without speaking, teams must construct four squares from 24 randomly shaped sections. If you do talk then it's off to the sin bin for a minute. Good communication and patience will help!

Navigate Clear communication directs your blindfolded partner through a minefield. Score points along the way. Trust your colleagues to get you through without any penalties, in the allotted time.

Photo Mission Your team's challenge is to capture a list of 40 objects on film with a Polaroid camera. However you only have 10 pictures loaded in your camera. Plan carefully and think laterally on how to capture them all. Extra points for creativity and artistic interpretation.

Polaroid Photo Story Reminiscent of teenage magazine Jackie and Take a Break, teams must create their own Polaroid photo-story case study. Complete with speech bubbles your photo story will harness your creative thought and teamwork.

Pyramid How did they do it? How long did it take for the pyramid to be built? All these questions remain unanswered. Leadership and communication will help your team solve the puzzle of 'on which day was the pyramid completed?'

Quick Draw A communicator describes for the interpreter, who must draw as many objects as possible. With the clock ticking your team will have to guess what on earth you are drawing.

Radioactive Toxic heavy water must be broken down into manageable parts. Spill any and you could create a nuclear contamination. Clear communication, planning, delegation as well as steady hands are of the utmost importance.

Rescue Barbie Every young girl's favourite doll is in trouble and it's going to take team work, initiative, ropes, a pulley system and Ken to successfully rescue her from certain doom. This superb challenge features a Perspex tank containing a number of Barbie dolls, a pulley system that requires a minimum of four people to successfully operate it and a grabber with Barbie's favourite guy mounted on top.

Rocket Launch This is a team challenge making use of lateral thinking, teamwork and planning to build a rocket launcher.

Scrabble Put your thinking caps on and get communicating, planning and delegating. Make as many qualifying words as possible. You'll lose points for the time it takes you.

Scruples Maximise your communication skills by really getting to know your colleagues in this game of moral dilemmas. Converse, laugh, explain decisions and cover interesting and bizarre topics.

Spider's Web Negotiate the Spider's Web. Encouraging trust and teamwork each team must pass through the web, without touching the threads. Touch the web and be devoured by the mutant giant spider - well that or you can start again!

Tower Bring back those early childhood memories. Your team must plan and communicate well to construct the tallest tower out of toy bricks against the clock.