Scaventour™
Outdoor Escape Game in Lubbock
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Looking for things to do in Lubbock? Scaventour™ is a guided live action outdoor escape game that is modeled off of an escape room game, but instead of the game taking place indoors in a private venue, it is outside in public spaces. Like an escape room, players are challenged to open many locked cases and bags in order to find the next location and get to the end within 60 minutes. At times, Scaventour™ will feel like an escape game, but other times, it feels like a scavenger hunt, or a treasure hunt, or even like in a famous code breaking movie, or one about a treasure hunt. People who enjoy geocaching should find that Scaventour is a fun game to play. Book now to enjoy a fast-paced tour experience that is like no other you've ever encountered.
Perhaps you have played outdoor scavenger hunts or murder mysteries before. This game is closer to an escape game because you have a guide who acts as the game master (which allows us to give you some neat tools to use to solve the clues (i.e. a laser range finder, a compass, an angular ruler, laser keyboard, etc.)). The guide is very important because he or she allows the game to be complex, but also have help if your group needs it. So, this isn't a self-guided game, rather it is what you would expect to find in an escape room, but outside.
We have different games for different size groups (with more games on the way).
- 4-12 people (adults and children) can play the Lost Key Game in the Depot District
- 4-120 people can play the Cryptic Murder game in the Depot District where players will be sorted into teams and will compete against each other and the clock. Good for corporate team building activities.
- 8-600 people can play the Masked Writer Espionage game in which teams will compete to find the identity of the agent is sewing seeds of discontent on campus.
The larger games are great for corporate teambuilding or building military cohesion.
See below a video from our game in Hawaii for a sense of how the games work (Lubbock videos coming soon)
Note: Scaventour started in Waikiki in 2016 and has been going strong. For more on that game, visit Scaventour.com.
Scaventourists
A guide will meet you and take you to the start point. You'll have 60 minutes to complete all of the assigned tasks and open the case to win the game. Are you up for the challenge?
Scaventourists playing the Masked Writer Outdoor Escape Game in Lubbock
Who will enjoy Scaventour™?
Looking for things to do in Lubbock? Many different groups will enjoy Scaventour™
Tourists will find that the tours allow you to explore Lubbock in an unforgettable way. See the Depot District or the statues and art on campus.
Residents of Texas will find that Scaventour™ is a great way to reconnect with the local sites. It's a good double date experience as well, or something to do to celebrate a birthday.
Escape rooms and scavenger hunts are often used as Corporate Team building exercises because the group must work together to solve the challenges and get to the end. Visitors at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center may be looking for something extra to do while they are in West Texas. Scaventour™ is a great way to get outdoors and enjoy Lubbock while engaged in a group event.
Or, check out the option for using Scaventour as a means for surprise proposal idea in Lubbock.
A new version of an escape room in West Texas or escape room in Lubbock, holding the thrill of the escape game without being trapped inside.
Great for large groups and group activities in Lubbock.
Check out our pictures page to see families and friends engaged in this fun activity together.
Battle Game for 12-100 people. Great for Corporate Team Building or a Bridal Party (Team Bride vs. Team Groom)
Click for more on the Team Building Battle Game
How does Scaventour™ work?
For the route based games (Lost Key) a guide meets you at a designated spot. The guide gives you a quick brief, then gives you a backpack. All of the pockets are locked on the backpack. Just like in an escape room, you have to open a lot of locks. Inside the pockets are clues. Those clues are relevant at different places within walking distance in Lubbock. You have to walk to the place, use the clue to help solve a puzzle by looking at the clue and then finding something at your destination that is related to the clue (so if your clue had several bank logos, you might find an ATM at the destination that has those same bank logos ... and your clue would help you figure out how to turn that into numbers).
Eventually, the puzzle will yield a combination that will help you unlock one of the locks. Once you open the lock, you will find another puzzle and another destination. The destinations are no more than 100 yards apart. You will walk to the next place and repeat this (some places have multiple puzzles in a single location).
You have 60 minutes to walk the 1 mile course and solve the puzzles.
Scaventour is a walking game, not a running game. Some teams have tried to run, but almost all of them have failed.
For teams that have younger players or novices, some of the puzzles are modified to better suit their skill level. Furthermore, there are some additional components of the game that can be added if you have a couple of players as young as 7 playing the game.
For the competitive games like Cryptic Murder and Masked Writer, the teams have a packet of puzzles and use deduction to determine the identity of the culpit. These games are 90 minutes long.
Are you up to the challenge?
Would you like to be a Scaventourist? Book here.
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