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Winner of the children’s category of the prestigious Spiel des Jahres 2025 award. Once a year, the finest pastry chefs from across the country gather to compete and bake the most beautiful cake. In this game, you join the cake-decorating tournament, building your cake layer by layer. Carefully observe the available colourful cake bases and choose those that fit together best. Clever placements earn sugar cubes, which can be exchanged for valuable victory points. Everyone plays at the same time, and the tension rises with every round. Collect sugar cubes for continuous strips of one colour, judge which cake layer suits your cake best and cleverly exchange your coloured sugar cubes for victory points. Simple rules make the game accessible to younger children while still offering adults more strategic possibilities than may initially seem apparent. It encourages logical thinking, spatial imagination, planning and patience in a playful way. Colourful components and an appealing visual design make the game look like a real cake filled with sugary fantasy. Simultaneous play keeps the game moving and avoids lengthy waits between turns, while the combination of luck and tactics creates new possibilities and surprises from the first layer to the last. A playing time of around 20 minutes makes it suitable for a family afternoon or a short break between longer games. Randomly arranged cake layers ensure that every game is different, while the elegant scoring system with sugar cubes and reward tokens offers surprising depth for experienced players. The cheerful theme and accessible rules also help younger children practise observation and logical thinking. For 2–4 players, with games lasting approximately 20 minutes. The game is in Czech and Slovak.