The Great Gotham Challenge

07/13/2024

‼️Spoiler Alert‼️

wrote an extensive article summarizing his team’s experience in GGC:MMXXIV this past June. Check it out at argn.com. If you missed our flagship event, you can read all about it here!

06/20/2024

Cluesuits but make it fashion. Need we say more?

05/31/2024

Tomorrow June begins! Summer in NYC is almost here. Get yourself something to look forward to and book a ticket to GGC's Summer Series!

These public challenges are composed of our most challenging and never-before-seen clues, locations, puzzles, and experiences.

05/19/2024

Tickets for the GGC Summer Series are now on sale!

Saturday’s throughout the summer, we will host two challenges to choose from. Decide to test yourself in the Central Park Sprint or via the Terminal Time Trial, or both!

Each experience lasts 1.5-2 hours, and will feature our signature immersive experiences, Cluemasters, and clever puzzles stashed in plain sight, but each challenge in the summer series has a more relaxed vibe. Great for a relaxing afternoon, families, or a first date (if you’re still unsure they’re right/GGC material).



https://info.ggc.nyc/public-events

PS: If you haven't yet gotten your ticket for our flagship challenge, limited tickets remain for GGC: MMXXIV! Get your ticket today!

05/08/2024

Tickets are now on sale for GGC MMXXIV. Gather your team and join us either June 8 or June 15, as we transform New York City into a Great Gotham Challenge.

Purchase tickets at https://info.ggc.nyc/public-events

See you there.

04/23/2024

Mark your calendars and gather your team for our 2024 flagship challenge: The Great Gotham Challenge: MMXXIV.

This event will mark ten years of building courses for this incredible community, and we can’t wait to share what we’ve got up our sleeve this year with you.

Subscribe to our newsletter (link in bio) to be the first to know when tickets go on sale.

04/02/2024

Gamification in team building is not new, but did you know bringing gamification into your day to day work can yield huge benefits? If you're not sure where to start in bringing gamification to your everyday, start with planning a Great Gotham Challenge as your next team building to get the creative and gamification juices flowing.

From the Harvard Business Review: "Gamification can enhance engagement because its mechanics activate three core elements of our motivational system. First, we need to feel autonomous; the desire to direct our own life. Games allow us the ability to choose a path. Second, we need to feel competent; the desire to be demonstrably effective. Games allow us to experience progress towards mastery. Third, we need to feel relatedness; the desire to be connected with others. Games allow us to work with and against others and builds a community around a shared interest."

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Employee disengagement is a persistent problem, and attempts to inject excitement often fall flat. However, gamification — using elements of games to motivate — has serious potential when thoughtfully executed. This article explores the psychology behind gamification, successful examples, and ho...

02/15/2024

Competing against your colleagues in a Great Gotham Challenge is definitely Type I fun. If you're looking for a large group team building activity, reach out to us and book your experience!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-three-types-fun-keith-richey?trackingId=pqQrGboNDxpYutZiPC9LlA%3D%3D&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_company_admin%3BySLcWNMpTXKz4Q4TMTx0xw%3D%3D

TL;DR - The ‘Fun Scale’ outlines three types of fun: Type I (fun while you’re doing it, you’d gladly do it again) Type II (only fun in retrospect, you’d do it again) and Type III (at no point is it fun, you’d never voluntarily do it again). I share three takeaways from the Fun Scale we c...

02/07/2024

The Great Gotham Challenge is honored to be a founding part of NYC IMMERSIVE WEEKEND 2024. This inaugural event will take place on Saturday March 2nd, & Sunday March 3rd, 2024 and will feature six incredible NYC immersive experiences. This event is led by Patchwork Adventures, creators of , (which will, of course, also be a part of the weekend!)

Get your tickets, they’re going fast! https://www.tickettailor.com/events/puzzletea/1146208

01/12/2024

We are two weeks into 2024 and the GGC team is hard at work dreaming up new and improved ways to delight our participants throughout this year. It's always so invigorating to invent new challenges!

What are you doing to fend off the winter blues and stay energized?

11/20/2023

More than a year's worth of planning came together on October 14th, as we collaborated to debut Compass 2023. This 14-hour, puzzle-filled, scavenger hunt event sent its 150 participants all over New York City, searching for clues and solving puzzles to be the first team to cross the finish line in the wee hours of the morning. Along the way teams interacted with actors on the streets of NYC, played theremins, decoded Tiffany lamps, danced on giant pianos, and ultimately acquired and assembled the required components in order to bring the lost cosmonauts home.

Compass is a bi-annual fundraising event to benefit Good Shepherd Services. Compass 2023 raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, enabling Good Shepherd to continue providing its services to the NYC community.

Here at the Great Gotham Challenge, we love crafting elaborate and delightful experiences, be those our off the shelf teambuilding offerings or something much more elaborate like this completely custom hunt in the form of Compass 2023! If you're looking for a unique way to engage your team or audience, reach out to us!

05/15/2023

The Great Gotham Challenge is back with a brand new challenge! Get your ticket for June 10th at https://feverup.com/m/130226

08/10/2022

This summer has been a little bananas. 🍌 🙈 It's been a delight hosting our fan-favorite & custom GGC challenges with you. Here's to many more!

02/28/2022

Nothing like a special delivery to perk your team up this spring. DYK our immersive puzzle experiences can be enhanced with physical puzzles shipped to your employees for flagship events? We’re particularly proud of our “Crate Gotham Challenge” that includes a box of clue-ified gifts. What's in your crate?

12/20/2021

"Walking in a Winter Wonderland."❄️

11/24/2021

DYK: Prior to the now-iconic Macy's Thanksgiving day parade was the Raggamuffin Parade, a "peculiar tradition of children painting their faces and donning tattered clothes to masquerade as 'ragamuffins' who asked 'Anything for Thanksgiving?' as they went door-to-door asking for pennies, apples and pieces of candy." Read more about the "Raggamuffin Paraders" and the origins of Macy's parade here: https://buff.ly/3FIOl0V

10/31/2021

Can you guess this spooky location of a recent CTRL/ALT/DECODE clue?

09/09/2021

Your opportune moment is neigh; seize your chance to play Compass 2021 via a new exclusive puzzle. Details here: https://bit.ly/3jXQIVn.

08/09/2021

Can’t wait to share the latest at !

It's back! Hugely popular at RECON last year, The Great Gotham Challenge returns to to host Ctrl/Alt/Decode: MMXXI as a Play Pass Prime game. This all new virtual race tests knowledge, wit, intuition, and mettle. Available to Play Pass Holders: https://recon21.realityescapecon.com/

06/15/2021

Times Square // 1960

06/11/2021

The rumors are true: the death knell has sounded for the iconic Club 21 🏇, a restaurant that grew out of one of the most notable speakeasies to open during the Prohibition era. Raise a glass with us as we bid adieu to this iconic NYC landmark. 🥂

06/10/2021

Who remembers this clue & how it worked? // As seen in the 'GGC x Industry City'

06/03/2021

Catch you in the Yard // Seward Park, NYC 1912 // Credit: Frances Loeb Library

06/01/2021

ICYMI: IRL challenges are BACK! Join us this season by reaching out to [email protected] today to book your private challenge. // Cluemaster Seale, 2019 Public Challenge: The Village

📸: Chase Anderson #2019

05/25/2021

The Great Gotham Challenge is proud to announce that we've joined forces with Good Shepherd Services to co-produce one of the most epic, invigorating, and mind-melting late-night puzzle adventures in NYC: COMPASS 2021

More on how YOU can play here! 👉 https://bit.ly/3fNsZny

05/11/2021

Great news: we're once again booking IRL Private challenges for your team or company on the streets of NYC! Ask your Team Lead or HR to contact [email protected] to learn more!

#2021

05/08/2021

The Bronx // 1970

05/06/2021

CTRL // ALT // Decode: Battle Scars // A portrait of one of our Cluemaster extraordinaires: Seraphina Mallon-Breiman, who regularly runs our private and Bespoke challenges.

04/28/2021

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men– who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling/jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23.

The factory was located on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of the Asch Building, at 23–29 Washington Place, near Washington Square Park. The 1901 building still stands today and is now known as the Brown Building. It is part of and owned by New York University.

Because the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked (a then-common practice to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft), many of the workers could not escape from the burning building and jumped from the high windows. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers. - wiki

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World Day for Safety and Health at Work
ICYMI: this building is now an NYU building that thousands of students go to class in every week!

04/26/2021

Why should weekends have all the fun? Treat yourself to memories you won't soon forget -- book a private experience for your company or team today!