Each clue includes an accepted answer and a short explanation for the reveal.
Company Story
100: Customize this clue with the year your organization was founded. Answer: Your founding year. Replace the answer with the correct year and add one sentence about what was happening then.
200: Customize this clue with the problem the founders originally set out to solve. Answer: Your original customer problem. Use the reveal to connect the founding idea with the organization's work today.
300: Customize this clue with the location of the organization's first office or gathering place. Answer: Your first location. Add a photograph or short story if the location is part of company lore.
400: Customize this clue with an important early product, service, or milestone. Answer: Your early milestone. Choose a milestone that newer teammates are unlikely to know already.
500: Customize this clue with the origin of the organization or product name. Answer: Your name origin. Name-origin stories are memorable and usually safe for a mixed group.
People
100: Customize this clue with the team that welcomes new hires and organizes onboarding. Answer: Your people or HR team. Use the official team name the organization uses internally.
200: Customize this clue with a teammate known for a recurring helpful habit or contribution. Answer: Your selected teammate. Choose positive, permissioned recognition rather than an embarrassing inside joke.
300: Customize this clue with the role responsible for a familiar customer or internal workflow. Answer: The role owner. This is a useful way to help people understand how teams connect.
400: Customize this clue with the person who has been at the organization the longest. Answer: Your longest-tenured teammate. Confirm the answer before the event and make the reveal celebratory.
500: Customize this clue with a cross-functional group that delivered a recent project. Answer: Your project team. Recognize several contributors rather than placing the spotlight on only one person.
Customer Moments
100: Customize this clue with a customer problem your team is especially proud to solve. Answer: Your customer problem. Keep confidential customer details out of the clue unless you have permission.
200: Customize this clue with a customer phrase or request that influenced the product. Answer: Your customer insight. Use anonymized wording when the customer has not approved attribution.
300: Customize this clue with the customer segment your organization serves most often. Answer: Your primary segment. The reveal can explain why this segment benefits from the product.
400: Customize this clue with a memorable support or service win. Answer: Your customer win. Focus on the team's response and outcome, not the customer's mistake.
500: Customize this clue with the metric used to measure customer success. Answer: Your success metric. Explain how the metric connects to a real customer outcome.
Team Wins
100: Customize this clue with the biggest project completed during the last year. Answer: Your selected project. Choose a project that involved enough people for the room to recognize it.
200: Customize this clue with a process the team made faster or easier. Answer: Your process improvement. The reveal should name the before-and-after improvement.
300: Customize this clue with a recent product or service launch. Answer: Your recent launch. Add the launch month or a memorable customer reaction.
400: Customize this clue with a goal the team reached together. Answer: Your shared goal. Use a goal that can be discussed publicly with the group.
500: Customize this clue with a difficult moment the team navigated successfully. Answer: Your resilience story. Keep the framing constructive and avoid sensitive performance details.
Wild Card
100: This quick activity asks each team to agree on one answer before a captain responds. Answer: Team consensus. Consensus questions encourage participation beyond the fastest individual.
200: This item should be prepared in case the final scores are tied. Answer: Tie-breaker clue. A numeric closest-answer question makes a simple tie-breaker.
300: This category should stay broad, comfortable, and answerable by newer employees. Answer: Inclusive trivia. Inclusive trivia avoids rewarding only long tenure or obscure inside knowledge.
400: This hosting practice rotates the person who gives the team's final answer. Answer: Rotating spokesperson. Rotation prevents one confident player from taking every turn.
500: This closing prompt asks teams to name one insight or connection they will take from the retreat. Answer: Team reflection. A reflection gives the activity a clear ending tied to the event purpose.
host guide
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How to use this template
Click the board tiles to preview every clue and answer. Open the template in the builder to customize it, choose teams, test one clue, and launch the private host controls.
Remote variation
Share the player display, keep host controls private, and choose device buzzers, chat answers, or one captain per team.
In-person variation
Project the board, place participants into teams, rotate the spokesperson, and prepare one tie-breaker before the event starts.
Make it specific
Replace generalized examples with accurate company details, remove confidential information, and add explanations that reinforce the purpose of the session.
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