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The Great Cake Escape
In The Great Cake Escape, players take turns pushing tools in between the layers of a three-layer, 3D cake, tools like shovels, chainsaws, and even dynamite! As you try to hide your pieces, you’ll push your opponents pieces out — or at least make them visible enough to get caught by the guards. The more you hide, the higher you score!
—description from the publisher
| Ages | 10+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Play Time | |
| Designer | Jay E. Treat, III |
| Theme | Action / Dexterity |
| Publisher | WizKids |
LabRat002a
Looks great. Not as dynamic a game as it could be. With 3 players, we barely had anything fall out of the cake. 2 would have even less. 4 players is probably the best way to play. Though as players we were more focused on putting things in the cake efficiently than knocking things out. It would be a better game if you focus more on going after other players. But the cake is going to be so stuffed that you won't have a lot of control over what falls out either. But because it's such a short game and looks so great, I still like it. What's not so great is trying to fit things back in the box afterwards. There are bags for each players pieces, but 2 of the pieces are too big to fit standing up on the sides of the box around the edges of the cake. I had to take the chainsaws and pick axes and lay them on top of the cakes outside of the bags. I'm also not a big fan of the disguise piece in the game, as it just feels unnecessary. If it gets knocked out, it allows the owner to choose one of their other pieces that fell out of the cake to re-add. For as light as this game is, that extra rule adds nothing.