That they were in fact, not poison nor do they decrease your health but are instead potions that give you secret but special advantages in the game.
Although the green bottles were CLEARLY labeled to be poison randomize made them appear in the way they do in attempt to "throw us off" and keep us from clicking on these very special advantages giving us a harder time to earn karma and T$ than it should be (another reason for us to need to buy T$ ๐)
Special advantages of the bottles include:
- An added 20% score bonus in the competition for that DC
- A 30% health boost
- 3 free keys
- 1000 added checks
- An automatic spot on the final day
- Nothing
Anyways, the "noob" is now very eagerly stalking the game and going for "potion bottles" instead of keys.