Cake: A Favorite Again!

Here's an interesting game that you can play on a snooker table, should you tire of the standard games or even its variations from my Game Variation series. It's called "Cake" and it's a combination of skill, luck. detective-work and a whole lot of fun; a true party game!

Cake is a game for 4-6 players. The game consists of frames and the person with the most frames won is the winner of the game. At the beginning of the game the order of the play is decided the following way: The numbers from 2 to 7 are written on separate paper pieces which are folded up so that the number cannot be seen, put into the ball case and shuffled. Then each player takes one piece and the order of the play is the order of the taken numbers. The paper pieces are put back, they will be needed during the game, too.

Start of the frame

At the beginning of each frame, all the object balls are set up to form a triangle with 6 red balls on the edges and the colours in the middle (hence the name "cake"). The triangle is placed like in snooker, but the apex red stands on the pink spot. The first shot of the frame, played from the "D", should look like a breaking in pool and at least two object balls must hit a cushion or a red must enter a pocket or the shot is a foul (oh poor cue tip and poor balls, but this was the worst part of the game, I promise you ;-). Every player has zero points at the beginning of the frame, and each foul counts as minus one (this is best handled by setting the pointers of the scoreboard to ten initially).

Potting

If a player is below two points, he can only pot colours into the two center pockets and reds into any of the six pockets (this means that every object ball is "on" in snooker terms). Each red potted scores one point, but no points are given for the colours.

If a player reaches two points at the first time in the frame, he takes one paper piece, but he doesn't show it to the other players. The number taken indicates a colour ball, and from this point on this ball will be his. This is very important as the winner of the frame is the person who pots his own ball into a corner pocket.

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