---
title: Oblique Strategies
kicker: Creative tool / productive constraint
date: 2026-09-11
status: Available
tags:
  - creative methods
  - constraints
  - decision-making
summary: Draw one of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's prompts when a working problem has resisted direct attack.
visual: text
theme: paper
---
Oblique Strategies is a digital edition of the card deck devised by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. Each draw introduces a specific instruction that can dislodge a stalled decision.

## How to use it

Bring a live problem. Draw one card and apply its instruction before deciding whether it fits. The productive move often comes from translating an apparently irrelevant sentence into the materials already on the table.

The tool shuffles 103 strategies from the fifth edition. Back restores earlier draws in the current session; no result leaves the browser.

## Credit

Strategy text © Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. Fifth, again slightly revised edition, 2001. First published in 1975.