The first ten ideas are obvious. What are the next twenty?

Thirty ideas that fit your limits, the obvious ones labeled, and the three worth keeping.


When to use
When you need an idea and the only ones you can think of are the ones everyone has.
Time
5 min

The prompt

I need ideas for . The limits are real: . Give me thirty, one line each, numbered. The first ideas that come to mind are the ones anyone would have, so get those out of the way in the first ten and label them ‘the obvious ones’. Make the next twenty stranger, more specific to my situation, or built by combining two things. All thirty have to fit inside my limits. Then choose the three you’d keep, with a sentence each on why, and add one odd idea you wouldn’t choose but think I should look at twice. Don’t pad the list with variations on the same idea.

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