First you look at the packaging (a tube) and you think 'Pick Up Sticks'. Then you see the sticks and you more definite that it is a Pick Up Sticks version. But there the similarity ends. The tube contains the stcks, but also a bottle that fits into the frame. Once fitted, the bottle will swing freely. The game is to balance sticks on to this bottle without allowing a stick to fall off, so it is the opposite to Pick Up Sticks.