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Free date night mystery game for two, to print at home

Snowed in at a little lodge, the prize cake has vanished from a locked pantry and the judge arrives at nine. You each get a secret packet: talk it through, crack a picture code and work out how the cake got out.

Date night in2 players20 to 30 minutesNo host needed

Download, US Letter (1.8 MB)Download, A4 (2.0 MB)

Free for personal use. No sign-up, no email: the download starts right away. 16 pages.

Pages from Cake Caper: Round 1

What's inside

Make the supper before you open the envelopes. Cheese on toast and a mug of cocoa is plenty, and nobody has to get up mid-clue.

How to use it

  1. Print the whole file. Letter and A4 both come in the download. Whoever prints hands each player their own pages without reading them.
  2. Read The Story So Far out loud together, then each open your Round 1 pages and do the date-night moment first.
  3. Never show your pages: tell each other what you have and work out how the cake left the locked pantry.

Sharing with friends or a class? Please send them a link to this page rather than the file, so they always get the newest version.

Want the full set?

The full game has two more rounds (a snowberry trail across a floor plan of the lodge, then statements, green wool and a midnight timeline), the Verdict, a solution you read aloud in turns with a happy ending, a slow dance and a cake confession, and a gift pack with invitations you can type into and gift tags.

Cake Caper at Snowberry Lodge: the whole game

Cake Caper at Snowberry Lodge: the whole game

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