Oblique Strategies Card Deck
Edition 4(1996)

Abandon desire 
Abandon normal instructions 
Accept advice 
Adding on 
A line has two sides 
Always the first steps 
Ask people to work against their better judgement 
Ask your body 
Be dirty 
Be extravagant 
Be less critical 
Breathe more deeply 
Bridges -build -burn 
Change ambiguities to specifics 
Change nothing and continue consistently 
Change specifics to ambiguities 
Consider transitions 
Courage! 
Cut a vital connection 
Decorate, decorate 
Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing 
Discard an axiom 
Disciplined self-indulgence 
Discover your formulas and abandon them 
Display your talent 
Distort time 
Do nothing for as long as possible 
Don't avoid what is easy 
Don't break the silence 
Don't stress one thing more than another 
Do something boring 
Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable 
Do the last thing first 
Do the words need changing? 
Emphasize differences 
Emphasize the flaws 
Faced with a choice, do both (from Dieter Rot) 
Find a safe part and use it as an anchor 
Give the game away 
Give way to your worst impulse 
Go outside. Shut the door. 
Go outside. Shut the door. 
Go to an extreme, come part way back 
How would someone else do it? 
How would you have done it? 
In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly 
Is it finished? 
Is something missing? 
Is the style right? 
It is simply a matter or work 
Just carry on 
Listen to the quiet voice 
Look at the order in which you do things 
Magnify the most difficult details 
Make it more sensual 
Make what's perfect more human 
Move towards the unimportant 
Not building a wall; making a brick 
Once the search has begun, something will be found 
Only a part, not the whole 
Only one element of each kind 
Openly resist change 
Pae White's non-blank graphic metacard 
Question the heroic 
Remember quiet evenings 
Remove a restriction 
Repetition is a form of change 
Retrace your steps 
Reverse 
Simple Subtraction 
Slow preparation, fast execution 
State the problem as clearly as possible 
Take a break 
Take away the important parts 
The inconsistency principle 
The most easily forgotten thing is the most important 
Think - inside the work -outside the work 
Tidy up 
Try faking it (from Stewart Brand) 
Turn it upside down 
Use an old idea 
Use cliches 
Use filters 
Use something nearby as a model 
Use `unqualified' people 
Use your own ideas 
Voice your suspicions 
Water 
What context would look right? 
What is the simplest solution? 
What mistakes did you make last time? 
What to increase? What to reduce? What to maintain? 
What were you really thinking about just now? 
What wouldn't you do? 
What would your closest friend do? 
When is it for? 
Where is the edge? 
Which parts can be grouped? 
Work at a different speed 
Would anyone want it? 
Your mistake was a hidden intention 
 