Crack The Code is an indoor, prison-themed team challenge where your group must work together to escape. Your team will break out of a prison cell, solve puzzles and conundrums, collect vital digits, and attempt to gain access to the governor’s office before making a final bid for freedom.

Created and hosted by Firebird Events, the experience combines mental, hands-on, and creative tasks to ensure different strengths have a chance to shine.

Your group will be divided into smaller teams before the challenge begins. Once the clock starts, your team will tackle a succession of puzzles and practical tasks, earning points and gathering the information needed to progress.

There is another complication too: A ‘corrupt’ prison guard is hiding among the action. Spotting the guard adds another entertaining tactical element to this memorable corporate team building experience.

Crack The Code has an activity duration of approximately one hour, with around 45-60 minutes on the clock for your teams to complete the challenges and attempt their escape.

The compact running time makes it easy to incorporate into a conference, company away day, meeting, or wider programme of corporate team building activities.

Our team at Firebird Events recommends Crack The Code for groups of 10 to 500 guests, making it a highly flexible choice for both smaller businesses and large corporate events.

Participants typically compete in teams of approximately seven to eight people. This creates groups small enough for everyone to contribute while still providing plenty of opportunities for collaboration.

With capacity for up to 500 guests, Crack The Code is particularly well suited to large-scale corporate team building events.

Multiple teams can compete simultaneously, creating a lively atmosphere and plenty of friendly rivalry. The format means everyone is working towards the same overall objective while trying to outperform the competition.

Crack The Code encourages communication, teamwork, problem-solving, creativity, and logical thinking. Your team will need to share ideas, identify clues, and make decisions efficiently while the clock continues to count down.

This activity takes inspiration from the excitement of an escape room but has been designed as a scalable team building experience. Instead of simply escaping one room, your teams follow an immersive prison-break storyline involving cells, cryptic challenges, the governor’s office, and a final escape over the wall.

This makes it an engaging alternative to a conventional escape room, particularly for corporate team building with larger groups.

The finale brings all of the teams together for one last head-to-head challenge. Your team will need to build something that can help you escape over the wall, putting your creativity and collaboration to the test.

It provides an energetic conclusion to the experience, with one team ultimately earning the title of Crack The Code winners.

Your team will be competing against both the clock and the other teams, adding energy and friendly competition throughout the event.

The competitive format can be particularly effective for corporate team building, as it encourages participants to communicate quickly, organise themselves, and work towards a clear shared goal.

The varied mix of mental, hands-on, and creative challenges makes Crack The Code accessible to a broad range of participants. Rather than focusing on physical ability, the experience is built around collaboration, ideas, and problem-solving.

This variety also helps keep participants engaged throughout the hour and gives different personalities and skill sets opportunities to make valuable contributions.

The venue will need tables and chairs for participating guests, along with three 6ft x 2ft trestle tables for our equipment.

Our team at Firebird Events can help you understand the event requirements in advance, allowing the activity to fit smoothly into your chosen venue and schedule.

The minimum set-up time is approximately 30 minutes, although 45 minutes is ideal. Allowing this time helps our event team prepare the equipment and challenge areas before your participants arrive.

Planning the set-up period into your event schedule ensures your Crack The Code experience can begin smoothly and on time.

Crack The Code transforms teamwork into an entertaining race against time. The combination of tactical decisions, cryptic puzzles, creative challenges, and friendly competition gives your colleagues plenty to talk about while encouraging genuine collaboration.

With flexible guest numbers, a convenient one-hour duration, and an immersive theme, Firebird Events offers an engaging corporate team building experience that can energise your event and bring colleagues together around an unforgettable shared challenge.

Contact Firebird Events to discuss your preferred date, venue, location, and expected number of guests. Our team can help you plan the practical requirements and explain the options available for your event.

Whether you are organising an away day, conference, or dedicated corporate team building event, Crack The Code offers a lively way to put your team’s communication, creativity, and problem-solving abilities to the ultimate test. The only question left is whether your team has what it takes to escape.