List of "cards" from Oblique Strategies
(Stolen from David Wicks, who didn't specify any source license)
- Turn it over.
- Switch the axes.
- Think about color.
- Make it black and white.
- Use the tangents.
- Move across the room.
- Restart.
- Make it ridiculous.
- Stop making sense.
- Emphasize the side effects.
- Turn it into a game.
- More semicolons.
- A => AB, B => B.
- Apply the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
- 0,1,1 => 0,0,0.
- 1,0,1 => 0,1,0.
- Maybe you should use %
- Block, Beehive, Loaf, Boat.
- Blinker, Toad, Beacon, Pulsar.
- Glider, LWSS.
- The R pentomino.
- Make the model the view.
- Change your controller.
- Try faking it.
- State the problem in words as clearly as possible.
- Only one element of each kind.
- What would your closest friend do?
- What to increase? What to reduce?
- Are there sections? Consider transitions.
- Don't think. Do.
- But, does it float?
- Remove half.
- 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597...
- 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028...
- Double the main element.
- Abandon normal instruments.
- Accept advice.
- Accretion.
- A line has two sides.
- Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle.
- Be dirty.
- Breathe more deeply.
- Bridges -build -burn.
- Cascades.
- Cluster analysis.
- Consider different fading systems.
- Courage!
- Cut a vital connection.
- Decorate, decorate.
- Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor.
- Destroy the most important thing.
- Discard an axiom.
- Disconnect from desire.
- Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them.
- Distorting time.
- Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do.
- Don't be frightened of cliches.
- Don't be frightened to display your talents.
- Don't stress one thing more than another.
- Do something boring.
- Do the washing up.
- Do the words need changing?
- Do we need holes?
- Emphasize differences.
- Emphasize repetitions.
- Emphasize the flaws.
- Get your neck massaged.
- Give way to your worst impulse.
- Go slowly all the way round the outside.
- Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
- How would you have done it?
- Humanize something free of error.
- Infinitesimal gradations.
- Into the impossible.
- Is it finished?
- Is there something missing?
- Just carry on.
- Left channel, right channel, centre channel.
- Look at a very small object, look at its centre.
- Look at the order in which you do things.
- Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them.
- Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame.
- Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list.
- Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate.
- Only one element of each kind.
- Remember those quiet evenings.
- Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics.
- Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities.
- Repetition is a form of change.
- Reverse.
- Simple subtraction.
- Spectrum analysis.
- Take a break.
- Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance.
- Tidy up.
- Turn it upside down.
- Twist the spine.
- Use an old idea.
- Use an unacceptable color.
- Water.
- What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate.
- What is the reality of the situation?
- What mistakes did you make last time?
- What wouldn't you do?
- Work at a different speed.
- Take a walk.
- Take a shower.
- Look to Nature.
- Talk it through with a friend.
- Who's my audience.
- Forget the money, make it cool.