Outaouais, Region of Montreal, Region of Ottawa, Region of Quebec (City)
Activity
Activity Description
“The Bandit” is a fully virtual team-building experience that drops participants into a mysterious scenario—one that only they can solve. Each player receives a unique information card and must collaborate by moving between breakout rooms to share clues, test hypotheses, and reach consensus. With minimal initial instructions, the group must develop its own communication and decision-making system. As the game progresses, facilitators gradually hand over control of breakout room management to participants, encouraging strategic thinking and agile coordination.
What does it impact?
- Strengthening communication and sense of belonging: Success depends entirely on listening, mutual understanding, and effectively sharing unique information across the group.
- Optimizing collaboration and work quality: Without imposed structure, the group must create a collective system that adapts and evolves—perfect training for project-based teamwork.
What should the organizer prepare?
- Book a time slot!
- Ensure all participants have a stable internet connection, webcam, and microphone
- Send out the meeting link and remind everyone that it’s a fully immersive experience
- Plan a short intro to set the tone and spark curiosity
- Encourage a distraction-free environment during the activity
How to reach our objectives on the big day?
- Assign a “communication lead” in each breakout room to streamline information
- Encourage shared note-taking to track ideas and hypotheses
- Hold quick process checks to refine team coordination during gameplay
- Create a shared board or doc for collecting clues and visualizing progress
- Foster a safe space where mistakes are reframed as learning opportunities
- Lead a debrief to highlight the self-organized strategies that emerged
When should we do this activity?
- When the team is remote or distributed and needs a stronger connection
- If communication silos are creating challenges in shared projects
- To boost active listening and co-responsibility
- Right before kicking off a strategic initiative that requires tight collaboration
Other benefits
- Fully accessible online—ideal for hybrid or remote teams
- Mentally stimulating and immersive without performance pressure
- Easily scalable and adaptable for different team sizes
See what others have done 👋
- At LogisPlus, the team solved the game at record speed by building a shared “command center” in a Google Doc—which they still use today for real projects!
- At TechNova, two participants accidentally stayed alone in separate rooms, talking to themselves out loud, thinking they were still in group chat—cue the laughter!
- Comptabilité Pro saw a usually quiet colleague emerge as the strategic leader, organizing the entire team plan—an unexpected (and welcome) surprise.
- At Mobilia, one team member drew out all the card connections by hand—her sketch beat every digital solution they tried.
- MediaClick turned early-game mistakes into an ongoing inside joke (“Never follow Marc again!”) that still lives on in their Slack channels.
- One Savoirs en Ligne player got disconnected—then returned incognito to drop cryptic clues James-Bond-style, turning the whole room into a spy movie scene.
- At RéseauPlus, the team made up a motivational theme song between breakout rooms—and ended up recording it as a fun team souvenir.
- A manager from DeltaWeb shared, “It’s the first virtual game where I truly felt we worked as a team—not just in parallel.”
Location : Office activities, Virtual
Location : Outaouais, Region of Montreal, Region of Ottawa, Region of Quebec (City)
Activity setting : Indoors
Group size : Up to 10 people, Up to 20 people
Inspire me! : Popular activities
Activity languages : English, French
Price : Budget-friendly
Duration : 1-3 hrs
Difficulty level : Easy to pick up
Group size :
- Up to 10 people
- Up to 20 people
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