Knock Out (tabletop game)

Knock Out is a family tabletop game for two or more players published by the Milton Bradley Company in 1991, designed for players aged seven and older with a typical playing time of about thirty minutes. The game found further life under different branding after its original release, appearing in a Bob the Builder themed edition called Bricklaying Game and in another edition marketed as Sloper!, both reusing Knock Out's core components and rules under new packaging and licensed characters aimed at younger audiences already familiar with those properties. Milton Bradley released Knock Out as part of its broader catalogue of family games during the early 1990s, a period when the company produced a wide range of simple, quick to learn titles meant to be playable by mixed age groups within a single household in one sitting, without requiring reading skill, complex strategy or extended setup time. The available public record for Knock Out does not identify a credited individual designer, only its publisher and release year, and no complete rules description beyond its player count, age range and playing time appears in the surviving secondary sourcing consulted for this entry.