Bowling Bakery

Bowling Bakery is ten-pin bowling as drawn in the back of a school exercise book. The ball is Kevin, a round loaf with a great deal of enthusiasm, and the pins are cakes on stick legs who have been looking forward to this all week. Drag back and let go to bowl, flick sideways as you let go to put a curve on it, and every cake Kevin meets goes up in a cloud of cream and sprinkles. Burst all of them in one go and it is a strike, which the cakes find even more exciting than you do.

Kevin soaks up the cream and grows. Once he is too big for the page, the page turns and the game carries on somewhere bigger: a street where the cars are eclairs, a whole town of houses made of cake, a range of wedding cake mountains and, finally, space, where the planets are also cake and Kevin is roughly the size of the Moon. The scores grow at the same rate, which is to say unreasonably. A run is quick, a minute or two, and it ends with one last enormous strike.

Burst nothing with all three of your loaves and Kevin has a little nap instead, which he is also fine with. Every run, even one that ends in a nap, gives him a new hat to keep, saved in your browser along with your high score. There is also a button on the title page that says do not press. We would not press it.