Cards and printing
Get the cards
Print a table kit at home tonight, or send the files to a card printer.
Print at home
A quick kit is two single-sided A4 pages: one incident, its five suggested causes and five ballots. Pick an incident:
- CBA: the calls kept comingF01 · 2 pages, single-sided
- Zillow: buying the forecastF02 · 2 pages, single-sided
- Replit: production was reachableF03 · 2 pages, single-sided
- Deloitte: assurance needed checkingF04 · 2 pages, single-sided
- Earnest: the school became a proxyF05 · 2 pages, single-sided
Print at 100% (actual size) and measure the 50 mm line before cutting.
Double-sided cards
- CBA table kit with number cards31 cards · A4, double-sided
- Alignment test pagePrint this first
- Full-page private ballotOne per person per round
Print double-sided with long-edge flip, and check that fronts and backs line up before cutting.
Professional print
Upload bundles for a card printer, as poker-size cards with jumbo failure cards as an option. Each ZIP holds paired front and back images, the upload order and a manifest.
- Everything for five tables · A4 PDF375 poker cards: 25 failures, 150 serious causes, 75 absurd causes, 125 numbers
- Five table kits, without number cards · A4 PDF250 poker cards: 25 failures, 150 serious causes, 75 absurd causes
- One table kit · A4 PDF50 poker cards: 5 failures, 30 serious causes, 15 absurd causes
- Number cards for the room · A4 PDF125 poker cards: 125 numbers
- Jumbo failure cards · A4 PDF25 jumbo cards, 3.5 × 5.75 in, a separate order: 25 failures
More combinations
- Failure cards, five of each · A4 PDF25 poker cards: 25 failures
- Two cause decks · A4 PDF90 poker cards: 60 serious causes, 30 absurd causes
- Five cause decks · A4 PDF225 poker cards: 150 serious causes, 75 absurd causes
- Room with one shared cause deck · A4 PDF195 poker cards: 25 failures, 30 serious causes, 15 absurd causes, 125 numbers
- Shared cause deck and number cards · A4 PDF170 poker cards: 30 serious causes, 15 absurd causes, 125 numbers
- Five cause decks and number cards · A4 PDF350 poker cards: 150 serious causes, 75 absurd causes, 125 numbers
Card sizes, bleed and pairing are in the production specification.
How many cards does a room need?
- Five copies of each failure card: one per table.
- A cause deck for each table, or one shared deck dealt by the facilitator.
- One set of 125 number cards for the whole room, only if you use them for ranking. Each of 25 people keeps five cards numbered 1 to 5.
- One private ballot per person per round.
Everything else
- One of every card: an A4 proof of all 175 designs.
- Number cards only: 125 cards on A4.
- Incident and cause cards only on A4.
- Browse every card, front and back.