brian eno and peter schmidt invented the "oblique strategies" in 1975 to avoid dead end streets in creative situations or to follow them willingly. the original version was a deck of 100 cards subtitled "worthwhile dilemmas" to be used by chance. this click-for-brainstorm generator was modified and extended from the version david ray offered on the enoweb in 2000. to neurotransmit click for random card and follow, re-make/re-model or ignore the instructions.