Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts

Specialties

Join a public scavenger hunt or work with us to create a private or corporate team building activity that emphasizes nimble thinking and active collaboration. Discover secrets of museums, historic neighborhoods and more while tackling fun, witty questions. There’s nothing better than a team building scavenger hunt for your next corporate outing, and there’s no experience more fun and unique than an urban adventure — Watson style!

Our scavenger hunts will get those mental cogs spinning as you sleuth through the Museum of Fine Art or scour the cobblestone streets of Old Boston for answers. Questions are designed to showcase the best – and often overlooked – parts of a museum or neighborhood on an exciting, inspiring, and sometimes tasty whirlwind tour.

An educational and unusual way to bring out the best in colleagues, corporate and private groups have found our scavenger hunts to electrify teamwork and skyrocket morale.

Popular hunts include:

— The Murder at the Art Museum Scavenger Hunt

— The Secrets of Old Boston Scavenger Hunt

— The Haunted Salem Scavenger Hunt

— The Naked at the Art Museum Scavenger Hunt

— The Wizard School Family Scavenger Hunt

History

Established in 1999.

Watson Adventures LLC has been organizing public, private and corporate scavenger hunts since 1999.

Since that time, Watson Adventures has become the nation’s fastest-​growing team building and scavenger hunt company of its kind with a regular series of hunts for public groups in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago and the New York area, and private hunts for as many as 500 participants across the country and beyond. More than 300,000 hunters — including employees of more than 2,000 prestigious corporations and start-​up organizations — have participated in Watson Adventures’ team building activities.

Meet the Business Owner

Bret W.

Business Owner

Bret Watson, a veteran journalist who has held staff positions at and contributed to publications such as Entertainment Weekly, The Cable Guide, Avenue, and Travel Holiday, founded the firm in 1999. The fun aspect of Watson Adventures’ hunts is a direct outgrowth of Bret’s personal interest in the lighter side of life: has performed as a stand-​up comic at some of New York’s finest comedy clubs such as Caroline’s, Stand-​Up New York, Gotham Comedy Club, The Comic Strip and Don’t Tell Mama.

He created and staged his first scavenger hunt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1993, as an offbeat, fun activity for his friends. Bret wanted them to discover some of the unusual and humorous objects he had seen in the museum’s collections, such as a medieval brass bowl depicting a wife spanking her husband and, as he says, «a stained-​glass saint who looked just like Mick Jagger.»