Licensing & Promotions

Host game night at your venue!

Locked Zoo and Locked Aquarium are a series of 2-hour puzzle-solving games that can be licensed and hosted at accredited venues. Working in small teams, players explore the venue, solve an elaborate series of puzzles, and try to finish the game before time runs out.

As teams progress, they’ll also learn about different species, the role of zoos, and the importance of wildlife conservation — making it perfect for ticketed public events, and offering turn-key convenience for your staff appreciation events & holiday parties.

Pricing & Promotions

Regular Price: Public

License any Locked Zoo game for one calendar date at your venue, as entertainment for guests during a ticketed revenue-generating event or private function.

$4000 USD

Staff Game: Private

License any Locked Zoo game for one calendar date at your venue, as entertainment for zoo staff (and their guests) as staff appreciation or a team-building event.

$2500 USD

Offer: Weekend Plans

License any 1 game for 2 consecutive days (e.g. Friday/Saturday) anytime during 2026 to get 25% off our regular licensing fee. No limits.

$6000 USD ($2000 savings)

Offer: Job Perks

License any 2 games for 1 day each — scheduled anytime during 2025/2026 — and you can also host 2 staff-only games for free at your venue during that time.

$8000 USD ($5000 savings)

Offer: Buy 3, Get 4

License any 3 Locked Zoo games — for 1 day each, scheduled anytime during 2025/2026 — and you can host a 4th game free during that same time period.

$12,000 USD ($4000 savings)

Offer: A Little Off the Top

License any Locked Zoo game for a staff-only event at your venue — scheduled before the end of 2025 — and get 20% off the regular price.

$2,000 USD ($500 savings)

Express your interest using the contact form at the bottom of this page or email Anders J. Svensson at anders@jetpack.ca.

Simple licensing fees with giraffe-high revenue potential.

Number of games
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Players per game
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We built a calculator so you can quickly see how much revenue your venue might generate by hosting Locked Zoo or Locked Aquarium — at the regular licensing fee and before discounts.

Past hosts have enjoyed attendance in the range of 500-1000 players per night, with tickets generally priced in the range of $30 to $50 per person.

Game assets offer self-guided play, with minimal waste.

Your game sheet tells you what to do next.

Game sheets tell players what to do next.

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Game signs are placed throughout the zoo.

Look for game signs as you walk the path marked on your zoo map.

Videos deliver conservation messaging.

Locked Zoo has been hosted by 12 AZA-accredited zoos in Canada and the United States.

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Conversation-worthy themes for conservation-minded people.

Jetpack licenses games to zoos and aquariums for revenue-generating public events and staff events. Games are available to license individually, or as an ongoing series your guests can enjoy throughout the year.

There are currently 14 Locked Zoo games — and our debut Locked Aquarium game — to choose from, each with a different conservation theme and featured species.

Locked Zoo

  • Players will pair macaws, trade tigers, and get to know gorillas while learning about how zoos worldwide collaborate on captive breeding programs.

    The game has three parts:

    1. Breeding Pairs (Macaws)

    2. Species Survival Plans (Tigers)

    3. Trivia (Gorillas).

  • How do zoos keep animals happy, healthy, and well-fed? Find out while solving a series of puzzles about food, positive reinforcement, and enrichments.

    The game has three parts:

    1. Diets (American Black Bears, Black & White Colobus Monkeys, Rock Hyraxes, Eurasian Wild Boars, Japanese Macaques, Straw-Coloured Fruit Bats, Grizzly Bears, Mandrills, Leopard Tortoises, Red Pandas)

    2. Commands

    3. Enrichments

  • Nature’s biggest cats use strength, speed, and smarts to survive in the wild. Players will do the same as they prowl the zoo solving cat-themed puzzles.

    The game has three parts:

    1. Camouflage

    2. Big Cats (Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Cheetah, Jaguar, Snow Leopard, Cougar)

    3. Trivia (Big Cats)

  • This edition has players solve puzzles inspired by breeding and reintroduction programs — which aim to boost the population of species in the wild.

    The game has three parts:

    1. Repopulation (Red Wolves, Scimitar-Horned Oryxes, Mexican Wolves, Mountain Bongos, Black-Footed Ferrets, Arabian Oryxes, Fishers, Przewalski Horses, Loggerhead Shrikes)

    2. Ectotherms (Northern Leopard Frogs, Blanding's Turtles, Puerto Rican Crested Toads, Louisiana Pine Snakes, Hellbender Salamanders)

    3. Habitats (California Condors, Andean Condors, Burrowing Owls, Trumpeter Swans, Whooping Cranes, Greater Sage Grouse, Guam Rails)

  • This edition features a series of puzzles related to life in the desert, where animals have adapted to the elements and face the hazards of human encroachment. The game has three parts:

    1. Trivia (Dromedaries, Fennec Foxes, Meerkats, Kangaroo Rats, Gila Monsters, Roadrunners, Armadillos, Thorny Devils, Bearded Dragons, Chacoan Peccaries)

    2. Tortoises (Pancake Tortoise, Leopard Tortoise, Desert Tortoise)

    3. Habitat Threats

  • This edition takes players into the vibrant world of species inhabiting tropical rainforests — with puzzles related to biodiversity and keystone species.

    The game has three parts:

    1. Rainforest Facts (African Golden Cat, Jaguar, Giant Otter, Asian Elephant, Clouded Leopard, Purple-faced Langur, Black Caiman, Saltwater Crocodile, Harpy Eagle, Puma)

    2. Rainforest Layers (Toucans, Ocelots, Jaguars, Scarlet Macaws, Three-Toed Sloths, Quetzals, Tapirs, Butterflies)

    3. Biodiversity: (Sloth, Capybara, Toucan, Gorilla, Okapi, Pangolin, Tapir, Gibbon, Hornbill, Coati, Macaw, Quetzal, Peccary, Siamang, Tamarin, Harpy, Sunbird, Cicada, Gibbon, Weevil, Katydid, Firefly, Mantis, Termite, Aphid, Beetle, Earwig, Moth, Locust, Cricket)

  • This edition delivers conservation messaging by showcasing long-extinct titans. Perfect for zoos with dinosaur displays, themed events, and animatronic exhibits. The game has three parts:

    1. Fossils (Triceratops, Edmontosaurus, Iguanodon, Minmi, Ankylosaurus, Troodon, Baryonyx, Raptor, T-Rex, Diplodocus)

    2. Adaptations (Spinosaurus, Paralititan, Therizinosaurus, Stegosaurus, Gallimimus)

    3. Herd Migration (Hadrosaurs)

  • Earth’s polar regions include some of its harshest environments. Players will solve a series of puzzles related to the diet, survival skills, and behaviours of polar wildlife. The game has three parts:

    1. Polar Bear Diets (Bowhead Whales, Bearded Seals, Birds, Narwhal, Fish, Walruses, Carcasses, Egg, Beluga, Vegetation, Ringed Seals)

    2. Antarctic Penguins (Gentoo, Adelie, King, Chinstrap, Emperor)

    3. Caribou (Reindeer)

  • This edition challenges players with a series of puzzles related to species of the African savanna and the dangers they face there. The game has three parts:

    1. African Savanna (Hippopotamus, African Elephant, North African Ostrich, Grant's Gazelle, African Lion, Bat-Eared Fox, African Buffalo, Nile Crocodile, African Wild Dog, Olive Baboon, Black Rhinoceros, Plains Zebra, Yellow Mongoose, Secretary Bird, African Penguin, African Fish Eagle, Wildebeest, African Grey Parrot, Thomson's Gazelle, African Civet, African Rock Python, Caracal, African Golden Cat, African Pygmy Hedgehog)

    2. Zebras

    3. Watering Holes (Lions, Elephants, Impalas, Baboons, Hyenas, Leopards, Warthogs, Storks, Giraffes)

  • In any region, the largest animals play a vital role in their ecosystems. Puzzles in this edition relate to keystone species and the importance of protecting them.

    The game has three parts:

    1. Extinction

    2. Megafauna (Black Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Wild Bactrian Camel, Polar Bear, Saltwater Crocodile, Bengal Tiger, Eastern Gorilla, Komodo Dragon, Cassowary, Green Anaconda)

    3. Keystone Species

  • This game champions stewardship as an easy way to support and protect the animals that live in North American forests.

    The game has three parts:

    1. Bears

    2. Owls (Great Grey Owl, Mountain Pygmy Owl, Spotted Owl, Elf Owl, Great Horned Owl, Northern Hawk Owl, Eastern Screech Owl, Barn Owl, Flammulated Owl, Boreal Owl, Western Screech Owl, Barred Owl)

    3. Mountain Lions

  • Apes are intelligent and charismatic, but they face survival challenges in the wild. While solving puzzles, players will learn all about apes. The game has three parts:

    1. Ape Enrichments

    2. Gibbons (Hainan Black Crested Gibbon, Northern Buffed-Cheeked Gibbon, Western Grey Gibbon, Black-Handed Gibbon, Bornean White-Bearded Gibbon, Southern White-Cheeked Gibbon, Pileated Gibbon, Southern Grey Gibbon, Silvery Gibbon, White-Handed Gibbon)

    3. Ape Habitats

  • This edition of Locked Zoo debuted around Halloween, but would engage players anytime of the year with puzzles related to wolves, bats, and insects.

    The game has three parts:

    1. Bats

    2. Insects (Antlion, Army Ant, Cutworm, Firefly, Katydid, Termite, Wax Moth)

    3. Wolves

  • In this game, players explore how appearance — coats, colouration, patterns, and plumage — help a species thrive and survive.

Locked Aquarium

  • In our first ocean-themed game, players will solve puzzles related to reef ecosystem species.

    The game has three parts:

    1. Larger Sealife (Spanish mackerels, goliath groupers, grey reef sharks, queensland grouper, napoleon wrasse, loggerhead turtle, lemon shark, sailfin snapper, nurse shark, blacktip reef shark, bumphead unicornfish, hawksbill sea turtles, whitetip reef sharks, bumphead parrotfish, great barracuda, giant clams, dogtooth tuna, giant moray eels, green sea turtles, giant trevally)

    2. Rays (Eagle rays, manta rays, sting rays)

    3. Smaller Sealife (Mandarinfish, blue tang, yellow tang, butterflyfish, angelfish, clownfish, damselfish, wrasses, spotted drum, triggerfish).

FAQ

  • We’ve simplified game preparation to in-office printing and the posting of signs along routes you select in your venue.

    All game assets are made available for download from Google Drive, and you can attach your own venue map to the game sheet for players to navigate with.

  • When players arrive, you’ll give them a game sheet and a pencil. They’ll scan a QR code to load the game website — and the rest of the game is self-guided. Instructions and hints are provided to them for each part of the game, and the final part of the game is a sit-down-anywhere portion that gives players a chance to eat, drink, and rest while they finish any remaining puzzles. When players leave the venue, just collect the pencils and recycle the game sheets.

  • Games can be licensed per-day (12:00am to 11:59pm in your time zone), for a one-time fee.

    Customization options are available for an additional fee, detailed further down in this FAQ.

  • Yes! Our games designed to be the perfect turn-key revenue generator for your venue. Some hosts have reported being able to generate more than a 10x return on the licensing fee with ticket sales alone — before food and beverage sales.

  • No — our games are available with per-day licenses, multi-day licenses, and annual licenses. Venues set their own ticket prices and keep 100% of the ticket proceeds.

  • Generally, no. The licensing fees shown above are for off-the-shelf versions of Locked Zoo and Locked Aquarium games. In most cases, species names are integrated into the puzzles and solutions and aren’t easily swapped.

    If there’s a conservation theme or biome your venue is passionate about — or featuring in the next year — that our games don’t yet cover, let us know! New games are always being developed and there’s an opportunity to influence the games we publish next.

  • For any game you book, your venue’s logo (or your event sponsor’s logo) can appear at the top of game sheet, above the game name.

    For an additional fee of $1000 (one-time per game title), you can add all of the following:

    • Your logo on the web page that players view videos on throughout the game.

    • Custom messaging on-screen at the bottom of the web page, with a CTA or conservation message for your venue.

    • Custom messaging inserted into the video that welcomes players to the game, either as a video clip you provide and/or as an audio narration we record for you.

    • A bonus challenging game sheet you can give to all players — or just to advanced players who finish the game quickly.

  • All of Jetpack’s games are written and produced by its owner Anders J. Svensson — a Calgary-based writer, avid reader, and globetrotting nature enthusiast — who has made social good the core of his creative studio. Game series like Locked Zoo and Locked Library have generated millions of dollars in revenue for conservation and literacy programs.

    In his day-to-day client work, Anders has written for hundreds of brands on projects ranging from zoo signage to national advertising campaigns and feature-length documentaries. You can view his writing portfolio (anders.ca) if you are interested in examples of his professional work.

Interested in hosting Locked Zoo?

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