Planning office holiday party games that people actually participate in is harder than it sounds. You need something that gets coworkers talking, works across different personalities, and doesn't require everyone to download an app before the fun starts. ClueRally turns your holiday gathering into a browser-based scavenger hunt with team challenges, trivia, photo and video submissions, and an optional live leaderboard everyone can follow.
Build Your Free HuntThe best holiday office party games give coworkers something to do together beyond standing around a table making small talk. A scavenger hunt creates shared objectives, friendly competition, and opportunities for employees from different departments to collaborate.
ClueRally supports clues, trivia, multiple-choice questions, number-range challenges, and photo and video submissions. Hosts monitor every team's progress through a real-time dashboard, approve submissions, and control when the hunt ends. When the live leaderboard is turned on, a full-screen scoreboard can be displayed on a TV or projector, giving the entire room a way to follow the competition.
Enterprise HR teams already use ClueRally to get employees moving through their own facilities. Examples include a construction contractor running weekly onboarding hunts and an NBA arena conducting employee HR hunts throughout its venue. ClueRally has supported events in more than 22 countries, including a university campus hunt with 367 players.
Build challenges using holiday trivia, workplace clues, multiple-choice questions, and photo or video tasks.
Employees scan a QR code or enter a 5-digit code to join directly from their phone browsers without downloading an app or creating an account.
Track team progress, score submissions, and turn on the live leaderboard for a TV or projector while you control when the hunt ends.
Challenge teams to identify the movie behind a famous holiday quote or name the artist behind a Christmas song. Mix easy questions with harder ones, such as asking which decade a classic holiday movie premiered or having teams identify a song from a short written lyric clue.
Use multiple-choice questions for recognizable holiday favorites and number-range challenges for questions involving years or quantities.
Ask teams to photograph something red and green, find the most creatively decorated workspace, or stage a group photo showing their interpretation of a holiday movie scene. Add a challenge where teammates recreate a recognizable holiday greeting card pose.
ClueRally's Custom Media Scoring makes these challenges more than simple pass-or-fail submissions. Instead of only approving or declining a photo or video, hosts can award any point value based on how well a team completes the challenge. A creative team photo might earn more points than a basic submission, at the host's discretion.
Create clues that send teams to recognizable locations throughout the workplace. For example: "Find the place where the workday's first cup of coffee usually begins," or "Locate the room where the biggest team decisions are made."
At each destination, teams can answer trivia, solve another clue, or complete a photo challenge. The format encourages coworkers to explore familiar spaces together rather than remain in their usual groups.
Ask teams to invent a holiday team name, photograph everyone making the same festive pose, or record a short video demonstrating their version of a holiday celebration. Include a challenge where the team must create a holiday greeting using only objects already available in the office.
Use Custom Media Scoring to assign different point values to submissions based on creativity, teamwork, or how closely they follow the instructions. With the live leaderboard turned on, teams can see where they stand as the competition progresses.
Office holiday parties bring together employees using different devices, and ClueRally works on iPhone and Android with no download. Requiring everyone to install an application or create an account introduces unnecessary steps before the hunt can begin.
ClueRally removes those barriers. Employees join using a QR code or 5-digit code in any phone browser. There are no app downloads, accounts, email requirements, or personal data collection.
For organizers, that means the hunt can begin without a separate registration process. For employees, it means joining the hunt without having to create another account.
The host retains control through the dashboard, including reviewing submissions, monitoring team progress, and ending the hunt according to the event schedule.
ClueRally was created by an event organizer with experience managing more than 600 events and over 6,300 members.
The platform grew out of a recurring problem with existing scavenger hunt applications: participants were asked to download software, create accounts, or complete registration steps while everyone else waited. Those delays interrupted the energy of live events.
ClueRally was built around a different approach: browser-based participation, immediate access through a QR code or 5-digit code, and host-controlled challenges.
That experience also informed Custom Media Scoring, a defining difference between ClueRally and other scavenger hunt apps. Rather than limiting photo and video submissions to approval or rejection, ClueRally lets hosts assign any point value to a submission. For holiday office party games, that provides flexibility to recognize creativity and teamwork.
Start with a free trial for up to 3 teams, with no credit card required, then choose a single hunt for $50 with a 12-hour maximum, Unlimited Monthly for $45/month with cancellation anytime, or Annual for $300/year. Limited time pricing is available for new hosts.
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