Black Out Online - Team Event

The story: Power outage!

Suddenly, the power is out all over the city. A severe storm has swept across the countryside, causing a blackout. To restore the power supply, assistance teams are needed.

Gradually, the teams solve various tasks, bringing the power back online district by district. First, the emergency power supply for the hospital is restored.

Your individual outdoor event

You can play »Black Out«, the online outdoor team event, wherever it suits you. The team event is completely location-independent. Only requirement: to collect clues, participants need to go outside and move freely, as the app works via GPS,

Do you want to stop a power outage, or do you prefer to rescue spelunkers from a cave or restart a company's computer system? No problem! We can simply customize the storyline for you.

The process

To collect clues for the outdoor team event »Black Out«, colleagues will install an app on their mobile phones beforehand.

The moderator will give a short introduction, and afterwards, colleagues go outside individually and gather clues by moving: one clue every 200 meters is played onto the app. Each individual can collect a maximum of 18 clues--running up to four kilometers.

The team comes together online after collecting the clues and solves the tasks together. The individual teams (4 to 7 participants) compete against each other.

Each set of four clues is required to solve the tasks of the outdoor team event. There are A-, B-, C-, and D-clue categories: each colleague only sees one clue category on their phone. This means at least four attentive colleagues are needed to solve one task.

How the game time is divided is up to each team. If one hour is available, the team has several options for their collective strategy:

– For example, 20 minutes of running to gather many clues, and 40 minutes of solving puzzles and completing tasks
– or 30 minutes of fast running followed by 30 minutes of puzzles and tasks
– or rather a more comfortable 30-minute walk, possibly gathering only 10 clues each time, then 30 minutes solving puzzles & tasks – this way, only part of the city is powered again, but the mood is much more relaxed!