CI: The Crime Investigators
Step into the role of detectives with CI: The Crime Investigators, a thrilling mystery-solving activity where teamwork and problem-solving take center stage.
What Is CI: The Crime Investigators
CI: The Crime Investigators is a mystery team activity that drops your group into the middle of a crime scene. Working from case files, fingerprints, and cryptic clues, teams have to think like detectives, piece together the story, and identify the culprit before the clock runs out.
Why Teams Love This Crime Investigation Team Building Activity:
- It builds problem solving muscles. Teams practice real skills like critical thinking, pattern recognition, and clear communication under a bit of friendly pressure.
- The story pulls everyone in. An immersive case with real props and a satisfying reveal keeps energy high from the opening briefing to the final verdict.
- It works anywhere. Indoor or outdoor, year round, this activity adapts to whatever venue and season you’re planning around.
- Everyone gets a moment to shine. Teams present their case and find out if they got it right, so the event ends with a real sense of accomplishment, not just a wrap up.
This activity pushes participants to think critically, communicate effectively, and collaborate under pressure. As the mystery unfolds, your team will feel the rush of solving puzzles and the satisfaction of working as a cohesive unit.
CI: The Crime Investigators Agenda
Welcome and Intro
The event will begin with a welcome from your event host, who will assist in organizing the group into teams. Following this, participants will receive a detailed briefing on the activity.
Team Formation
Participants will divide into investigation units and assign roles and responsibilities. Teams complete a criminal investigation quiz before visiting individual crime scene locations.
CI: Crime Investigators
Teams will visit individual crime scene locations, collecting evidence, documenting the scenes, and answering questions. During their investigations, they will think critically, creatively problem solve, manage their time and discover each other’s unique skills. With detailed information, they will submit evidence to the lab and receive final results.
Crime Debrief
Teams will individually present their determination of the crime and will be scored by the event host for accuracy
Wrap Up, Recognition and Photo Op
Teams will gather to collectively review the case. The event host will unveil what really happened, and facilitate discussions on key takeaways, lessons learned, and announce the winning team. Winners will be awarded Outback Team Building medals. The event will wrap up with congratulations all around to commemorate a successful event.
Ready to Crack the Case?
Give your team a mystery worth solving. Our team building experts will help you plan a custom CI: The Crime Investigators event that fits your group size, venue, and goals.
What's Included With Your CI: The Crime Investigators
Included
All Crime Scene Evidence and Props
Crime Solving Info Packets and Materials
Media Package with Event Photos
Professional Event Host
Set Up and Tear Down
Dedicated Event Manager
Required From You
Venue for Your Activity
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CI: The Crime Investigators Frequently Asked Questions
We understand that plans can change, so please reach out as early as possible, and we’ll do our best to accommodate your needs. Date changes may incur a change fee, please reach out to your Sales Engagement Consultant to discuss further.
Our events can take place anywhere. We have event coordinators located across North America who can come directly to you—whether it’s your office, a venue of your choice, a meeting space, or a unique location that best suits your needs. We’re flexible and ready to make your event seamless, no matter the location!
CI: The Crime Investigators is a mystery solving team building activity where teams step into the role of detectives, gathering clues and evidence to crack a case together.
This activity helps develop problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills, since teams must piece together clues and evidence collaboratively to reach the correct conclusion.
CI: The Crime Investigators differs from an escape room by focusing on detective-style deduction and evidence-gathering across a case, rather than solving physical locks and puzzles to escape a room.
Yes, CI: The Crime Investigators is an indoor activity, using a dedicated space for teams to review evidence and work through the case together.
CI: The Crime Investigators works well for small to mid-size teams organized into detective squads, allowing each group enough case materials and clues to investigate collaboratively.
What Our Clients Are Saying
I saw a lot of laughing and collaboration among team members
It was really interesting because it was very challenging at times and really made us think. In the end, I saw a lot of laughing and collaboration among team members. It was fantastic to be able to spend a day out of the office doing something fun, at the same time putting our heads together and learning how to work together. Great job to the Outback group. We had a fantastic day.
BDO
The feedback from our team was extremely positive
The event was great! Your team did an outstanding job. Our team building event was a success. The feedback from the participants was extremely positive. The program was done very professionally and worked out really well. Thank you to your team for making it a success. We look forward to working on additional events in the near future.
L'Oreal
Thank you for such a fun event!
Great communication from beginning to end – well-organized and, even though we had an unexpected time crunch, Emma was able to improvise and speed things up to accommodate our request. Thank you for such a fun event!
SC Johnson
You can't overstated the importance of a great event like this
My expectation at the beginning of this was to build team. But I saw much more in this. I saw team spirit. I saw trust being built. I saw vulnerabilities in the team. They challenged each other. When you put this together you can’t overstate the importance of a great event like this in the wonderful way that young ladies involved facilitated it. It was fun. It was invigorating. It was engaging.
ConvaTec
We really appreciate your flexibility
Thank you so much for organizing such a great event. Everyone enjoyed it and it really drove home the point we were trying to make in our training. We really appreciate your flexibility around our requests and needs, and working. Our sales rep, facilitator, and the rest of the Outback team were truly amazing – it was a true pleasure to work with you.
Bloomberg
The event is customized in a way that brings out strengths you don't normally use
It was a wonderful time. A great afternoon spent team building. A lot of fun activities which were great during a two-day meeting. The facilitators and the actors were wonderful. It brought our team together and made us think about a lot of different scenarios. We definitely looked for a lot of strengths in our team and the event is customized in bringing out strengths that you don’t use in our day-to-day. Overall, a lot of fun, well worth it, and a great way to spend an afternoon team building.
Roche
Kaiser Permanente
A BUNDLE of excellence!
I have so many compliments regarding our CI: LA experience – I could apply every adjective below to each of your team members! Great team player … excellent … definitely an asset to Outback Team Building & Training … professional … fun … creative … ingenious … quick … attentive … energetic … skilled! A BUNDLE of excellence!
LA Inc.
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