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My Cake

Cupcake on Cupcake!

For some years now game publishers from Asia show their games at Essen; besides games from Japan and Korea games from Taiwan have been presented by the distributor and publisher Swan Panasia. In 2011, among other games, I was presented with My Cake, a card shedding game on the topic of pieces of cake.

96 cards show four different types of cakes and also different numbers of cakes, you can find between one and four pieces of cake on a card. The rules offer three different ways to play:

Fast Hand for Cake – each player has 4 plate cards laid out, the cake cards are dealt evenly to players. You draw a card from your stack and place it on one of your plates or another player’s plate with the same kind of cake; if one player is out of cards you count the number of cakes on all of your top cards, if you ended the game you score 3 points bonus and you win with most points. My Stolen Cake – you have two plates laid out and hold five cake cards, four cake cards are laid out on the table. You place a card from your hand on a card of other players or a card on the table to achieve a sum of five pieces and place all cards of the stack on one of your own plates. When all cards have been distributed you win with most cake cards. Count the Cake – all plate and cake cards are dealt evenly to players; in turn you place a card. When certain conditions are met you quickly place your hand on the stack; the slowest player takes all cards. If you are out of cards you win.

My Cake is yet another nice example for games from Asian publishers, featuring nicely combined standard mechanisms and pretty images that make you want to eat cake!

Players: 2-5

Age: 6+

Time: 10+

Designer: Bono Light

Artist: Nina

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Swan Panasia 2011

Web: www.swanpanasia.com

Genre: Card shedding game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: cn en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice graphics

Three variants

Difficult to acquire

Compares to:

Other card shedding games with reactions on combinations

Other editions:

Chinese self-published edition at Light Games

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