Overview

Cake Master is a game where you draft cards to build cakes.

The players with the tastiest cakes scores the most Star points. Also, players with cakes that can meet the demands of customers will also score Star points.

The game is played over 3 rounds. In each round, the players draft 3 cards a total of 4 times to build 3 cakes made of 4 cards each.

Scoring happens at the end of each of the 3 rounds.

Round: Start

• At the start of round 1, 1 customer is drawn.

• At the start of round 2, 2 customers are drawn.

• At the start of round 3, 3 customers are drawn.

Turn

On each turn:

• All players receive 3 cake cards

• All players choose 1 cake card to give to their left player and 1 cake card to give to their right player. The player keeps the 3rd cake card.

• All cake cards are passed left and right

• All players must place their cake cards to build 3 cakes. The cake cards can be placed on any of the 3 cakes.

All those steps are done 4 times and then all players will have exactly 3 complete cakes.

Round: End

At the end of the round, the sum of Tasty points of the player’s cakes is calculated. The players with the highest Tasty points sum score 2 Star points. The players with the lowest Tasty points sum score 0 Star points. All other players score 1 Star points.

Then, if the players have cakes that meets customer demands, they score 1 Star points per cake. For a player, a cake can only be used to score one customer and one customer can only score one cake.

Then, all customer cards and cake cards are discarded. The cake cards are shuffled.

Tasty Points

• Only 1 icing color: 3 Tasty points

• 2 icing colors: 1 Tasty point

• 3 icing colors: 0 Tasty points

• Each complete rosette: 1 Tasty point

• A cake with no half rosette: 1 Tasty point

• Each pair of 1 raspberry and 1 blueberry: 1 Tasty point

End game

The game ends after 3 rounds. The player with the most Star points wins. In case of a tie, the player with the most Tasty points in the last round wins.

Two Players Variant

With the 2 players variant, the game plays the same except for the draft: instead of giving a cake card to the left and a cake card to the right, the players choose 1 of the 3 cards to keep and give the other 2 cards to the other player. Then players keep one of those 2 cards and give the last card to the other player. They then proceed to place those cards to form cakes like normally,

Solo

In the Solo game, the Tasty points are not used.

At the start of the game, 3 customers are drawn.

On their turn, the player receives 4 cards and must choose 1 card to discard. The player can also replace any number of cake cards in their hand with new cards, but can only do this 3 times for the whole game.

At the end of the round, Tasty points are not calculated, only customers demands are checked.

Customers that are scored are discarded. At the start of the next round, new customers are drawn if there are less then 3 customers so that there are always 3 customers each round.