A secret game. A public place. No one outside it ever knows you're playing.

Field Games played in landmarks, parks, and museums, completely in secret. Your team becomes spies, not soldiers.

What It Is

It's Capture the Flag... with one major twist. 🤫

What's different: no running, no yelling, no giving it away. Your team plays in plain sight... inside a real public space... while everyone around you has no idea a game is happening.

The objective hasn't changed since you were a kid. The constraints have. And the constraints are the whole point. They're what turn a kids' game into something your team will still be talking about months from now.

The Feeling

Your heart rate climbs.
You break a sweat.
Walking.

This isn't a trust fall. Nobody's blindfolded. Nobody has to share their feelings in a circle.

What actually happens: you feel an adrenaline rush as if you're running a race. The loudest person in the room won't win this game. You start to strategize new ways of communicating with the people you see every single day. Often it's the quietest that shine brightest.

On it's face, it's just a game. But the level of depth you reach with your colleagues makes it more than just teamwork... it's a shared experience you won't forget.

I've watched this moment play out over a hundred times: the second the game ends, before anyone's caught their breath, they're already trying to recap what just happened. That reaction is the whole reason I keep doing this. Molly Sonsteng, Co-Founder
Quiet Alert Watching

Recognized by Airbnb Experiences

One of the top-rated experiences
in New York City.

Past Clients

How It Works

Four steps. Two hours.
One very specific kind of team building.

01
Choose your date & venue
We'll suggest the right venue for your team size.
02
Get briefed, split, and pinned
Instructions are given, you're split into two teams, players get their red or blue lapel pin (a cheeky signal that nobody outside the game knows about).
03
The game runs in real time
No running. No yelling. No breaking character. Capture the flag from the other side without getting caught by the other team... or the public!
04
High fives are immediate
The recap starts before anyone's caught their breath. That feeling of "what did we just pull off?!" The shift in energy is palpable and makes the whole thing worth it.
Past Games

If it's public and has a center line,
it's a playing field.

Overhead view of a game in progress at the Oculus — players from Blue Team and Red Team moving through the crowd, bystanders completely unaware
Game in progress — teams navigating the space
Players mid-game
The flag — hidden in plain sight
Where we've played

New York City
Grand Central Terminal · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The Oculus · Bryant Park · Times Square · Time Warner Center

Minneapolis
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Mall of America · The Science Museum of Minnesota

What teams say

When strength and speed don't win,
the quiet shine bright.

"Most amount of anxiety-producing fun I've had in a long time. Our team's comments ranged from 'Super fun' to 'I've never sweated so much in NYC in my life'."
— Casper
"It was great to see a different side of our coworkers — quiet folks turned out to be master strategists and more extroverted teammates blended into the woodwork and got sneaky."
— Rockets of Awesome
"Our entire team had smiles on their faces the whole time. We were able to organize and strategize in a way that was completely separate from any individual's role in the office."
— CredSimple
"The team absolutely loved it. It was a great way for people from different teams to come together, work together, and get to know each other better."
— Uber
About
Molly Sonsteng, Co-Founder of Inconspicuous Games

Molly Sonsteng  ·  Co-Founder

Sam Utne, Co-Founder of Inconspicuous Games

Sam Utne  ·  Co-Founder

Inconspicuous Games started as a joke at the Met in 2016.

Sam and I were visiting the Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (home to the Temple of Dendur) and joked that the room had perfect natural boundaries for Capture the Flag. A few weeks later, we tested it for real with twenty friends. We tweaked the rules so there was no running, no yelling, no getting caught. Not by the other team, or by anyone in the museum.

We pulled it off and had the best time. We called it Inconspicuous Games.

What we didn't expect was how the quietest in the group shined. The loud people listened. Soon, corporate teams were reaching out to play. Managers told us afterward that the shift didn't just end when the game did, but they noticed how employees continued to communicate differently weeks after the game ended.

We've since run games in landmarks across New York City and Minneapolis for teams at Uber, LinkedIn, Morgan Stanley, and dozens more. It's remarkable to see how people enter the space with a sense of nervous anticipation and leave with the biggest grins and feelings of being alive.

In all the years of leading games for corporate teams, I've never tired of witnessing the energy of the players when the experience is over. Helping people feel alive is one of my greatest honors. I hope to show you what I mean.

Read the full origin story →

Bring your team somewhere they've never actually seen.

Tell us your team size and we'll tell you what's possible.

Currently running games in Minneapolis and New York City.