LOCKOUT!

The physical edition

Lockout! on your table.
Should we make it?

We're deciding whether to produce Lockout! as a real tabletop game: a roll-up play mat, control markers, and the deck of cards you already have in a drawer, or a themed deck made to match the board. Enough names on this list and it happens.

One email if it happens. No spam, and you can ask to be removed any time.

Concept for the Lockout! play mat: three zones of card spaces labeled A to K, with marker spots above each space and two discard areas
Concept design. The final mat may differ.
The original hand-drawn Lockout! prototype in colored pencil on taped-together paper

It started like this

Colored pencil, printer paper and tape. Green for A-2-3, blue for 4 to 10, red for J-Q-K, a circle above each space for the marker, and two discard piles labeled "counts negative". This sheet is where Lockout! began.

The app has since been played in 50+ countries. We'd like to bring it back to where it began. Read the rules.

Four worlds. Which one is yours?

Same game, same layout, different world, with a deck of cards to match each board. Click a board to see it full size. Join the list and you get a vote.

Standard board concept

Standard

Clean, dark and minimal

Zone 1 · Zone 2 · Zone 3

Matching deck (concept). Ranks stay big and easy to read.

SpecOps Theatre board concept

SpecOps Theatre

Night vision, satellite maps, classified briefs

Intel Networks · Strategic Objectives · Command Authority

Matching deck (concept). Ranks stay big and easy to read.

Zombie Apocalypse board concept

Zombie Apocalypse

Asphalt, barricades and spent casings

Supply Depots · Safe Havens · Command Centers

Matching deck (concept). Ranks stay big and easy to read.

Outer Space board concept

Outer Space

Nebulae, ringed planets and a black hole for discards

Mining Outposts · Colony Worlds · Flagship Command

Matching deck (concept). Ranks stay big and easy to read.

What would be in the box

Two ideas. The complete set comes in the theme you choose. Prices are our best estimate today, not a promise.

Roll-up mat + markers

~$20

You already own the deck.

  • ✓Roll-up play mat, about 24" × 18"
  • ✓26 control markers in two colors
  • ✓Rules card

Complete themed set

~$30

Board and cards from the same world. The one you gift.

  • ✓Roll-up play mat
  • ✓26 control markers
  • ✓52-card deck themed to match your board
  • ✓Illustrated rulebook, in a box

Any deck works

Lockout! is played with an ordinary 52-card deck, so the mat and markers are all you need. The themed deck is there because it looks the part.

It was a table game first

The app came second. Lockout! began as two people, a deck of cards and a hand-drawn board.

Rolls up, goes anywhere

A mat fits in a tube or a backpack, costs little to post, and cards slide across it properly.

Want it on your table?

It only gets made if enough people say so.

Join the waitlist