Snake Oil: Party Potion

Players take on the role of eccentric inventors in an Old West sales pitch contest, creating two-word concoctions (e.g., “Rumor Mirror,” “Burp Balloon”) from a hand of word cards and pitching them to a rotating customer. Each round one player reveals a customer card that specifies a type of buyer, then everyone else combines two word cards to form a product and delivers a short pitch; the customer chooses the product they want and awards the card to that inventor. Used word cards are discarded and replaced, and the customer role passes clockwise. Play continues until each player has been the customer, and the player with the most customer cards wins.

Players: 3–6 best 6
Playing time: 30 min
Age: 8+
Complexity: 1.4 / 5