Snake Oil: Elixir

Snake Oil: Elixir is a board game for 3–8 players. It plays in 30 minutes and is meant for ages 10 and up. Ludoya players call it best with 2.

Players play fast-talking inventors in a comic Old West sales pitch game. Each round one player is the customer and reveals a customer card; the other players combine two word cards from their hand to create a two-word product and then give a brief verbal pitch to convince the customer to buy it. The customer listens, may cut off pitches after thirty seconds, and selects the product they want, awarding the customer card to that pitch's inventor. Used word cards are discarded and replenished, and the next player becomes the customer. Play continues until everyone has been the customer; the player with the most customer cards wins.

Players: 3–8 best 2
Playing time: 30 min
Age: 10+
Complexity: 1 / 5