Our Online Amazing Race is the perfect way to connect remote workers to a competitive, fun, think-outside-the-box experience from the comfort of their home office.

The Setup

After 3 months of working from home, we knew that an online Amazing Race experience would be a good idea. Previously, we ran small scale city-wide versions using our Go Game app. But we wanted to challenge ourselves to build something that could be played from the comfort of a home office. Our client requested a large conference-style experience that was to be playable over a 3 day period. This company wanted to show its partners, some 380 people, how they were all connected within a larger picture.

The Build

What makes an amazing race enjoyable? We wanted to take the core elements of the experience and somehow translate them to an online platform. Needless to say, we had to remove the running, the globetrotting, and the physical components. So what were we left with: challenges and puzzles. We stripped the experience down to a few key components.

We wanted our players to all to follow the same route. Thankfully, this is easily done by the software we use. So we decided that players would alternate between visiting airport locations and travel destinations. By completing puzzles and challenges at these stops we felt confident that each player would be engaging with enough varied content to remain competitive and entertaining.