It was first published in 1995 by Bambus Spieleverlag,[1] and was re-released by Z-Man Games in 2010 under the name "Bottle Imp.
[3] The game is played with a bottle token and a proprietary deck of thirty-seven cards with a total ordering from 1 to 37.
Cards used to "purchase" the bottle are returned to the player who played them when a new price is set.
At the end of the round, players who do not have the bottle score the face value of all cards they won.
The player who ends the round with the bottle loses the sum of the cards discarded at the beginning of play.