LockTheGame locks Roblox and Minecraft behind quick, grade-matched curriculum quizzes. Your kids earn their play time by learning — automatically, every day.
No nagging. No negotiating. The computer enforces the deal, so you don't have to.
Your child gets one hour of Roblox or Minecraft, no strings attached. Play begins the moment they log in.
At the 60-minute mark the game locks and a short quiz pops up — real curriculum questions matched to their grade.
Passing unlocks a bonus hour. One more checkpoint quiz earns the final 30 minutes. Learn more, play more.
Phone apps get ignored. Browser extensions get deleted. LockTheGame lives on the computer itself.
Switching windows, minimizing the quiz, or launching the game a different way doesn't work. The lock follows the game, not the window.
Closing it from Task Manager won't help — it restarts itself. Removing LockTheGame requires the parent's administrator password.
See quiz scores, play time, and progress from any browser — your phone at work, the laptop in the kitchen, anywhere.
Need the game off right now — dinner, homework, bedtime? One tap in the dashboard pauses play instantly, from wherever you are.
| Features | LockTheGame | Screen-time timers | Chore apps | Router blockers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kids earn time by learningPlay becomes the reward for real schoolwork | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Real curriculum content15,186 grade-matched questions, not trivia | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Locks the game itselfNot just Wi-Fi or the whole computer | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Survives Task ManagerRestarts itself; uninstall needs your password | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No honor systemThe computer enforces the deal, not a promise | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Automatic every daySet it once — no daily parent effort | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Kids stay motivatedMore play is always available — by learning | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
Roblox and Minecraft on Windows PC — that's it, for now. We'd rather do two games perfectly than twenty badly. More games are on the roadmap.
No. The lock follows the game, not the window. Minimizing, switching windows, or relaunching the game brings the quiz right back.
It restarts itself automatically. Fully removing LockTheGame requires the parent's administrator password.
A bank of 15,186 curriculum questions covering grades 3–12 in math, science, reading, and history. Every question is independently answer-checked before it ships, and any question that fails the check is removed.
No. It looks at one thing only: the titles of active windows, so it knows when a game is running. No keystrokes, no screen recording, no browsing history, no microphone, no camera. Ever. See our Privacy Policy.
No. The parent dashboard is a website — it works in any browser on any device. The only install is on your child's Windows PC.
Nothing right now — it's a free beta. One license covers every PC in your household. If we add paid plans later, beta families will hear it from us first.
We've made it genuinely hard — but honestly, no software can beat a determined kid with physical access to a computer forever. LockTheGame is a tool that supports parenting, not a replacement for it.