Murder on the Express – Virtual Team Building Activity

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Murder On The Express – Virtual Team Building Activity

Based in the glamorous Roaring Nineteen Twenties, aboard a luxurious sleeper train making the long distance journey through the heart of Europe, from Paris to Constantinople, via Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade, tragedy strikes, as the lifeless body of a Property mogul is found in one of the carriages. Travelling only with his daughter – the finger is soon pointed at a whole number of different suspects who may have benefitted from the death of Maximus Power.

Your challenge is to find answers – and fast – before the Express reaches its final destination and passengers disembark! You and your team of expert investigators will board the Express at the first opportunity, in Belgrade – where you must interrogate the Train Guard, to learn more about each of the suspected passengers, their motives, and what weapon was used to commit the ghastly crime.

Itinerary overview

This activity can last between 90-120 minutes to fit your agenda:
  • Introduction to the activity by your live charismatic event host
  • Group split into smaller teams of 6-8 participants
  • Expert guidance from our Event Team throughout
  • Teams collaborate to overcome questions, challenges and conundrums
  • Each team faces their own unique challenges in a race to Escape The Box first
  • Wrap up and winners announced, prizes awarded

What clients say about the Murder on the Express Virtual Team Building Activity?

The Zing Events virtual team activities are great! They are a variety of events that are both inclusive and adaptable. The hosts are accommodating and are a real credit to Zing.

Katherine R

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What do we provide?

  • A professional host who’ll set the scene and give you some hints and tips along the way.
  • Event Manager – your main point of contact on the day ensuring the smoothest of event deliveries.
  • Experienced and knowledgeable crew to help facilitate the session.
  • High quality equipment
  • Our own Projectors, and Sound Equipment – for that cinematic experience
  • The winning team gets the much-coveted Zing medals and of course any additional prizes you want to add.
  • Bespoke audiovisual presentation.

Virtual Murder on the Express Facts

The activity is perfect for groups of 5 to 500+

Bringing Team Building to remote workforces

The activity can 60-75 minutes

Key Team Benefits of the Virtual Team Building Activity

Connected

In the world of remote working, it‘s a rarity for the whole team to be together at once.

Belonging

Completing challenges as a team and getting a sense of accomplishment provides belonging.

Engagement

Boosting employee engagement is essential to productivity, commitment and retention.

Togetherness

Teams that play together, succeed together. Strong relationships are the bedrock of team performance.

How Does Murder on the Express Virtual Team Building Activity Work?

Much like other virtual activities in our portfolio, our Murder on the Express is delivered using two required devices, running in parallel, a Smart device with our App downloaded onto it, plus a webcam enabled computer for the web call platform element; this is where you’ll be able to converse with the rest of your team to piece together the evidence.

As aforementioned, the game consists of two interfaces; one of which you will have access to all of the passengers documents (the Train Guard was sensible enough to seize these before the train arrived in Belgrade). You will use this information to learn the factual circumstances of each passenger – their profession, the reason for their journey and where their destination is.

The second interface is the train itself; as a team you will have access to all of the carriages, including The Dining Car and Bar, Minnies Sleeping Car, Hollies Sleeping Car, Maximus’ Carriage, the Luggage Car and the Train Guards Cabin. You will quickly need to filter out the evidence from the red-herrings to deduce who is guilty.

Fingerprint Analysis

Solve clues using forensic techniques.

Litmus Testing Liquids

Use your science skills to uncover secret information.

UV Lamps

Discover hidden messages with specialised lighting.

Map Reading

Navigate using compass bearings and vintage military equipment.

Virtual Team Building - What to Expect

What to Expect in the Virtual Team Building Activity?

  • Get Prepared: Each guest will need access to a laptop for the video call (Zoom Is preferred). You‘ll also need to download our free app to your mobile or tablet and access to Wi-Fi.
  • Welcome: Our live presenter will brief you as one large team on a video call. They will be on hand for the whole duration of the game.
  • Play: We’ll then split you into smaller teams (in breakout rooms) where you will complete the challenges on the app together, with your captain submitting your final answers.
  • Winners: At the end of the activity we bring the whole group back together to announce who the winners are plus show the videos and photos taken by all teams.
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What We Provide for Your Virtual Team Building Event

  • Pre-event support and joining instructions you can share amongst your team
  • Access to the free app on IOS or Android and your own unique game code (provided by the Live Event Host at the start of the session).
  • We provide a Zoom video platform (it offers some unique functionalities),we can run it on your preferred platform. Simply provide us a meeting link, and assign host privileges
  • A live host who introduces the activity but is available for the duration. For every additional 50 ppl we provide an additional tech support
  • Any photos or videos taking during the event will be sent to you post event.

What we need from you

  • A Computer – for the video conferencing (Zoom preferred)
  • You and your team. We cater from 5 to 500+ guests
  • A smartphone or tablet that is Wi-Fi enabled to download our free App to.

FAQs

Whilst Zoom is our preferred platform, we can of course join whichever Platform you’d like us to. We have run it for Monster Energy on MS Teams and for Apple using WebEx for example. We would need Host Privileges assigned.

Each guest will simply require a webcam enabled computer and a smart device with our free App downloaded.

No equipment is required – simply a webcam enabled device and an additional smart device (for the App element).

The session is delivered in a professional manner and very quickly everyone is put at ease. We often get feedback saying this is the best virtual event people have ever done!

There are several variables that dictate the cost of this activity, such as the number of guests ; enquire with us now, and we’ll have a bespoke proposal and quote to you within a couple of hours.

We prefer Credit Card to ensure payment is made in advance of the event. You can however pay by BACS if payment terms can be met.

We have a very large team of fully trained and charismatic Event Hosts – so only rarely are we sold out.

We have delivered thousands of events. Check out our impartial reviews platform to hear what customers are saying; https://www.reviews.co.uk/company-reviews/store/zing-events-ltd

We’ve run this activity for 500 people at once – there is no upper limit. We would recommend that your whole group is more than 8 people.

Bookings are based on minimum chargeable numbers, but if numbers do increase we will provide an invoice for any extras.