2010 · Party Game

Snake Oil

Players invent two-word products by combining word cards and pitch them to a revealed customer type. Each round one player acts as the customer and others choose two cards from their hand to form a silly product, then deliver a brief spoken sales pitch. The customer listens, may time-limit pitches, and selects the product to “buy”; the seller of the chosen product collects the customer card as the round’s point. After pitching, used word cards are discarded and replenished, and the role of customer passes clockwise so everyone takes a turn. Play ends after each player has been the customer; the player with the most customer cards wins.

groupPlayers

3–10 best 5

schedulePlaying time

20–30 min

cakeAge

10+

psychologyComplexity

1.1 / 5