Saving Scrooge: A Holiday Haunt turns the classic Christmas Carol into one of the most festive escape room team building activities for teams across the United States. Led by a live actor on Zoom, your team plays the spirits sent to show Ebenezer Scrooge the true meaning of the holidays. Remote and hybrid teams book it as a warm, funny, and genuinely interactive holiday party.
Scrooge is not going to make it easy. He has rigged his home with traps and has no interest in changing his ways. Your spirits will need to work together, think creatively, and interact with the characters along the way to fill his soul with the spirit of giving before morning. Expect a mix of logic puzzles, observation challenges, and
Saving Scrooge: A Holiday Haunt turns the classic Christmas Carol into one of the most festive escape room team building activities for teams across the United States. Led by a live actor on Zoom, your team plays the spirits sent to show Ebenezer Scrooge the true meaning of the holidays. Remote and hybrid teams book it as a warm, funny, and genuinely interactive holiday party.
Scrooge is not going to make it easy. He has rigged his home with traps and has no interest in changing his ways. Your spirits will need to work together, think creatively, and interact with the characters along the way to fill his soul with the spirit of giving before morning. Expect a mix of logic puzzles, observation challenges, and character conversations, with plenty of room for the group to improvise a plan and talk their way past obstacles instead of only solving locks.
Escape Room Meets Interactive Story
The game blends traditional escape room puzzle-solving with an interactive narrative adventure. Players work with on-screen images and characters, solve challenges, and make decisions that move the story forward. Many challenges have more than one creative solution, so teams can charm, trick, or puzzle their way through, and every group's path feels a little different. Scrooge has already turned away the spirits of Past and Present, so it falls to your team, as the spirits of Yet-to-Come, to reach him before morning breaks. Session lengths of 30, 45, 90, and 120 minutes are available on request, so the game fits a short holiday break or a longer celebration.
A live actor doubles as the game facilitator, playing the characters your team meets and responding to choices in real time. Players interact with a lot of fun characters in this holiday escape game, all brought to life by the same live actor. It is one of the most theatrical options among virtual escape rooms team building groups can book for the season.
What's Included
- A live actor and facilitator for the full session
- Holiday puzzles, traps, and on-screen character scenes
- A branching story with multiple creative solutions
- The option to split large groups into competing teams
- Hints and tech support throughout
Built for Groups of 2 to 200
- Group size: 2 to 200 guests
- Session length: 60 minutes
- Platform: Zoom, with no downloads
- Team format: one team or several competing teams
Ideal Occasions
Saving Scrooge is a natural fit among virtual holiday team building activities. Teams book it for company holiday parties, December all-hands meetings, end-of-year department celebrations, and family-friendly christmas team activities. The story is familiar to almost everyone, so players settle in quickly, and its themes of generosity make it a fitting way to close out the year.
It also works well for remote team bonding outside the holiday rush and as one of the team building games for work that suits mixed comfort levels with puzzles. The host team is highly rated by the companies that book them, with guests often calling the games fun and well organized.
What Your Team Needs
Each player joins from a computer or device with an internet connection and access to Zoom. There is nothing to install and no special equipment to buy. The host explains the rules at the start, answers questions as they come up, and helps with connection hiccups, so teammates who rarely use video tools can jump right in.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do players need to know A Christmas Carol? No. The live actor sets up the story at the start, so everyone begins on the same page.
Can groups compete against each other? Yes. Large groups can be divided into competing teams of spirits racing to save Scrooge first.
Who hosts the game? A live actor who also serves as the game facilitator, playing the characters and guiding the team through the story.
Pricing and Booking
Saving Scrooge is $38 per person for the 60-minute game. Choose your group size and date, complete the reservation, and the Zoom link arrives within 24 hours. Check the calendar on this page and reserve your date for the holiday season.
