Hackathon Online

About the game

Hackers are a special breed: intuitive, ambitious, out-of-the-box thinkers. Teaming them up across screens is the real challenge — and the double goal of this demanding online game.

Teams tune their brains up, race through riddles, and work to decode the encrypted message that decides the winner — performing better and faster than every other hacker team, naturally.

Characteristics

How it plays: Participants receive the game manual by email days before the event, building anticipation. On game day each team unlocks a password-protected e-book of riddles; team leaders feed answers into the live scoring platform while everyone dives into a puzzle-solving frenzy. Solved riddles earn points and alphabet letters — the key to the source code the final message is written in.

Why operators love it: A genuinely engaging remote format for distributed teams and hybrid events — no shipping, no logistics, just inboxes and screens. The team with the highest score claims the Best Hackers Ever badge.