Custom Scavenger Hunt Zurich: Corporate Events & Municipality Programs
May 19, 2026 · 8 min read
A custom scavenger hunt is one of the best investments for companies, municipalities and schools — whether for team building, neighbourhood festivals, school trips, or tourism initiatives. Unlike off-the-shelf trails, your custom tour is built around your location, your story, your audience. Here's when it makes sense — and how it works.
Why custom instead of standard?
Ready-made scavenger hunts like Foxtrail or Explorial are great for spontaneous family outings. For planned events, they're often the wrong fit:
- Too generic — the story has nothing to do with your location, brand or occasion.
- Wrong age group — Foxtrail only really works at 12+. Unsuitable for school trips with 3rd-graders or staff with young kids.
- No group logic — chaos with 20+ participants without team structure.
- Limited locations — if you want a specific neighbourhood, company site or municipality covered, there's simply no ready-made tour.
Use cases
🏢 Companies: meaningful team building
Standard team-building (bowling, escape room, apéro) has a problem: it's interchangeable. A custom puzzle tour around your company history, location or products stays a talking point for weeks. Examples:
- Onboarding tour for new hires through your office quarter — with puzzles about locations, teams, and colleague stories
- Anniversary tour for 25/50/100 years of company history with stations at old locations and milestones
- Customer event with a tour through the quarter around your venue — as a welcome experience before the actual meeting
- Summer apéro with an activity — teams compete in mini-races, the reward waits at the apéro spot
🏘️ Municipalities: activate family tourism
A custom scavenger hunt for your municipality is a marketing secret weapon: it makes your location attractive for families from the region as a day-trip destination, sends visitors to local cafés and restaurants, and positions you beyond the usual "hiking + restaurant" narrative.
🎒 Schools: learning outside the classroom
School trips, project days and lessons become highlights with your own puzzle tour. Curriculum content (local studies, history, geography, math) can be woven directly into the puzzles — kids learn without noticing.
What a custom tour can include
🗺️ Region & locations
Any location across Switzerland — city centre, neighbourhood, park, industrial site, hiking trail. We research on-site and find the right stations.
📖 Story & characters
A custom story — either with your existing mascots/brand characters or newly developed ones fitting the occasion.
🎨 Branding
Your logos, colours and design language integrated. The tour feels like part of your world — not a generic scavenger hunt.
🧩 Puzzle types & difficulty
15+ puzzle types available. Difficulty configurable per audience — young kids, mixed families, adult teams.
🌍 Language
German, Swiss German, English, French, Italian — or several languages in parallel.
👥 Group size
From 4 people (small team) to 200+ (school, neighbourhood festival). Larger groups: multiple parallel teams, with ranking.
Price ranges
- Mini tour (5 stations, 1 language, no custom branding): from CHF 3,500
- Standard tour (7–9 stations, 1 language, light branding): CHF 5,500–9,000
- Premium tour (9+ stations, 2 languages, full branding, physical box): from CHF 12,000
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Ready for your custom tour?
First conversation is free. We listen, advise honestly, and tell you straight whether a custom tour makes sense — or if an existing one would do.
Business & municipality packages