The Birthday Cake Race Game

Please note that this is a digital product. Your game is delivered as a PDF file which you can download. No physical product is delivered.

Aim of the Game

To be the first player to deliver a slice of birthday cake to each of the 12 guests on the player's playing board.

Full Details

Each player has their own board which has 13 squares. These squares show the birthday cake and 12 guests. The 13 squares are connected by pathways which are coloured blue, green, red and yellow. Each board is unique as to which coloured pathways connect which guest squares to each other. This results in a game that can be played by all players simultaneously.

Each player also has a playing piece. At the start of the game this is placed on the birthday cake square. The player should imagine that they have just picked up a plate with 12 pieces of cake on it.

The starting player now calls out one of the four colours. All players must slide their playing piece from the birthday cake square along a pathway of the appropriate colour and onto a guest square. If this is the first time they have visited this guest (and on the first turn of the game this will always be the case) they mark a cross in the box beneath the guest to show that the guest has received their piece of cake.

The player to the left of the starting player now looks at their board, decides which colour pathway they want to travel along, and calls out the colour aloud. Again all players must slide their playing piece from their current square along a path of the appropriate colour and onto a new square. If they arrive at a guest who they have not yet visited then they once again mark a cross in the box beneath the square to show that the guest has received their piece of cake.

Play continues, each guest taking their turn in calling a colour. If a player's piece is on a square where there is only one pathway of that colour then they are forced to travel along it. If they are on a square where there are two pathways of that colour then they can choose which of the two pathways to take.

The winner is the first person to deliver a piece of cake to all 12 of their guests.

Small and Big Party Versions

As well as the extra game boards these versions include a suggested script for explaining the game's rules to your guests.

Personalised Versions

In the personalised version of the game the people on the boards that are requiring a slice of cake will be your actual party guests!