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Lock Stock Makes Debt a Criminal Chain Reaction

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) ยท Card-game loss / overlapping crews, debt clock, and botched thefts

The engine is debt cascading through bad plans. The card game creates a clock that makes every crew's ignorance useful to another crew's disaster.

Why it works

The comedy comes from procedure colliding with partial information. Guns, doors, debts, bags, and overheard plans keep repricing ownership before anyone understands the whole map.

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heist procedurecrime governancecomedy engine

arena

tablewarehouseapartment

institution

criminal organizationpeer group

pressure

moneyclocktrust

violation

false readbetrayal

cost

moneyfriendshiplife

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misdirectionjoke becomes wound

character_entrance

system

turn_mechanic

information reprices scenejoke becomes wound

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heistpursuit

body_logic

body

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card table