{"id":3576,"date":"2005-02-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2005\/02\/19\/flaschenteufel\/"},"modified":"2005-02-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T11:00:00","slug":"flaschenteufel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2005\/02\/19\/flaschenteufel\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaschenteufel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flaschenteufel<\/a><\/h2>\n

reviewed by Moritz Eggert<\/i><\/p>\n

G\u00fcnter Cornett has a great talent for inventing interesting trick-taking games with a
\ntwist, and “Bottle Imp” is no exception.<\/p>\n

In this game, each player gets a distribution of 36 cards (numbered 1-18 and 20-37) in
\nthree colours. The trick is won by the player who played the highest card of the same
\ncolour (or any colour if he is out of the colour) which is the highest lower card as the
\ncurrent “bottle imp”, or, if nobody played a card below the imp’s number,
\nsimply the highest card. The bottle imp starts at “19” (for which there is no
\ncard), so the player playing the only 18 in the game would win the trick, but also a
\nplayer playing 17 or lower if he was the highest “below-the-imp” player.
\nHowever, that also means that the bottle imp is now placed on the 18 (or the highest
\nlowest card that was played), and the next trick-taking play has to be 17 or lower. The
\nplayer who is stuck with the bottle imp after the last card is played gets the imp’s
\ncards (see below) counted in the negative, all the other players get positive points.<\/p>\n

Of course this is not as simple as it sounds. At the beginning of a round players pass
\ntwo of their cards to their neighbours, and one card into the “imp’s pile”.
\nSo there is never any absolute certainty about which cards are actually in the game. Of
\ncourse it is not a good tactic to keep your 1’s and 2’s for the last trick,
\nbecause this usually means you get the bottle imp. Therefore it is common that if a
\nplayer plays an imp trick (for example the 15) all other players will get rid of their
\nlowest cards, because they won’t win the trick for certain and don’t end up with
\nthe imp (represented as a little wooden bottle) either. If you play a low card as a
\nstarter, other players might deliberately play their higher cards so you end up with a
\nlow imp early in the game, and the other players simply win the tricks by playing higher
\ncards than your imp, in effect the game will pass you by with an evil grin of everybody
\ninvolved.<\/p>\n

“The Bottle Imp” is not only a clever game, but also lovingly crafted around
\na famous short story of Robert Louis Stevenson, which, as an additional bonus, is fully included
\nwith the game, in German AND English (as are the rules). Luck of the draw might play a
\nrole, as if you have many very low cards in your initial draw it will be very difficult
\nto get rid of all of them at the right time. Still this is a very enjoyable card game
\nthat doesn’t leave the brain out of work and also has a high “fun through
\ntorture of other players” factor. Recommended!<\/p>\n

Explanation time: 5 minutes<\/p>\n

Playing time:1 round 5 minutes, full game 1 hour<\/p>\n

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Flaschenteufel reviewed by Moritz Eggert G\u00fcnter Cornett has a great talent for inventing interesting trick-taking games with a twist, and “Bottle Imp” is no exception. In this game, each player gets a distribution of 36 cards (numbered 1-18 and 20-37) in three colours. The trick is won by the player who played the highest card … Flaschenteufel<\/span> weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spieleabende"],"views":6,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}