It was first published in Germany in 1979, without rules and under the German name Das Spiel.

The game has been originally published by Diego Rodriguez (Reinhold Wittig), Göttingen, in 1979.

[6] In his preface Wittig writes: I've often been asked how you go about it to invent a game.

Is perhaps the best answer possible to show the many different ways of designing a game.

The answer is also a challenge: Invent rules of your own to my dice pyramid.The first edition of the game was a small version of the dice pyramid, without any rules.