The Tricksters
The Tricksters, an immersive indoor or outdoor team building experience where trust, teamwork, and a dash of treachery collide in the most entertaining way.
Available in both indoor and outdoor formats!
Summary
Collaboration
Fun
Time Management
Trust Building
Duration
90 – 180 mins
Participants
20 – 150 People
The Tricksters format is ideal for conferences, away days, and evening socials, and it works beautifully as part of a larger agenda where you want people connecting quickly. If you want an team building activity that is smart, social, and seriously fun, choose The Tricksters. The experience blends suspense, problem solving, and playful misdirection into a single arc that people remember.
Your guests arrive to an atmosphere of intrigue set by our professional host. From the opening brief it is clear that success will demand sharp minds, steady nerves, and strong collaboration under time pressure. The premise is simple and compelling. At the start of the event the guests are split into teams , then each participant receives a sealed envelope that secretly assigns them as either a ‘Loyalist’ focused on team success or a ‘Trickster’ intent on staying undetected long enough to tilt the outcome.
Teams then compete head-to-head across a sequence of fast paced challenges designed to test mental agility and light physical coordination while hidden Tricksters try to muddy plans, seed doubt, and slow progress without getting caught.
Gold coins are on the line and the team with the fattest purse claims the win. Across four to eight rounds the pace builds through logic puzzles, tabletop problem solvers, lockbox combinations, and team activities. Every activity session lasts five to fifteen minutes to keep energy high and roles rotating so different strengths can shine.
The twist sits at the heart of the fun. Hidden among the teams are the Tricksters who have their own agenda! They will try to quietly sabotage, nudge decisions astray, and gain advantage while the rest of the table pushes for clarity and speed. Tricksters may try to waste seconds, misplace a piece, propose a suspiciously complicated plan, or steer the group toward a dead end that looks plausible at first glance. Loyalists must spot patterns of behaviour, challenge inconsistencies, and keep the workstream transparent so that facts crowd out rumours.
Clear communication, calm leadership, and measured scepticism become best tools to find the Tricksters – the problem is it might be a guest’s best friend or line manager!
Depending on the timings, teams will have a ‘round table’ after the third activity to discuss who they think is the Trickster in their midst. Guests will compare notes, voice suspicions, and vote in an attempt to expose the person they believe to be the Trickster.
Our lively host keeps everything fair and engaging, adjusting the tempo to suit your agenda whether you want a punchy ninety-minute edition as a conference energiser, a compact over dinner show that threads between courses, or a deeper three-hour standalone session for richer strategy. Groups of seven to eight per table work brilliantly, but the format scales for larger teams and multi table rooms should you need to.
Treacherously good fun and available in both indoor and outdoor formats!
Outcomes of The Tricksters Team Building
How your team works on the event transfers directly back to work. Communication becomes precise because tasks only progress when information is shared clearly. Strategic thinking is exercised as teams set priorities, manage a visible clock, and decide when to test a hunch versus gather more data. Leadership rotates naturally as different challenges require different strengths, and active listening rises as a quiet superpower when small details prove decisive.
The Tricksters is also a powerful trust laboratory. Participants learn to separate behaviour from personality, to surface disagreement constructively, and to challenge an idea without attacking a colleague. The Trickster mechanic normalises healthy scepticism while rewarding evidence, and the ‘round-table’ vote provides a safe space to practise justification and consensus building.
Teams leave with stronger cohesion, a sharper eye for the signals that matter, and a renewed appreciation for how clarity and candour accelerate progress. Every event concludes with a finale and a celebration that recognises both brains and bravery. The winning team is crowned for collecting the most gold coins and for correctly naming the Tricksters in their midst, while special mentions highlight acts of leadership, creativity, or audacious deception that added spice to the story.
If required a short debrief links game moments to workplace habits, drawing out takeaways on role clarity, feedback loops, and how to keep momentum when not everyone shares the same goal.
Gather your colleagues, shuffle the envelopes, and step into an activity where loyalty is tested, wits are sharpened, and the truth is what your team can prove before the end of the game.
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It was really good!
Thanks so much for providing us with such a fun activity.
Evie Suggett | Enable
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