Game 40: Snake Oil

 Snake Oil is a good party game - most especially for creative people who like to talk.  I don't do as well with this game as the rest of my family, especially my sons - but we all have fun equally, regardless.  The idea is that the player whose turn it is has a certain label - cheerleader or caveman or kindergartner or pirate or hostage, etc.  The rest of the players try to "sell" this character a product.  Each player is holding 6 cards, each of which has one word on it. In order to create the product they need to put two cards (i.e. two words) together and then promote the product described by those two words.  The player whose turn it is chooses which product he finds best suited to his needs (or simply most entertaining), and the player who "sold" that product basically earns a point.

 The next 3 pictures are of Caleb and Grandma pitching their products.  It really does get quite entertaining.


 Below I've shown the cards a little closer up.  In the first picture everyone is trying to sell a product to the babysitter: a "diaper book" that entertains kids long enough to keep them cooperative for a diaper change, an "island trap" that opens up into a localized tropical paradise that keeps the kids in one place, and a "pizza jacket" for the babysitter to wear so that he always has food available to get the kids happy and under control.  See if you can figure out how the products might have been pitched to the kindergartner in the last picture on this post.


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