Tap the game to open it fullscreen. On a computer, Esc exits; on a phone, use the ✕ button.

How to play

Three cakes bake at once. Tap each when its bar is in the golden zone (or use keys 1, 2 and 3). Too early is raw, too late burns; both count as a mistake. Save ten cakes with at most three mistakes.

The story behind it

The legend of the burnt cakes appears only in late texts, not in the earliest ones about Alfred. The game is made up. Read the story in Alfred the Great, the king who lost everything and won at Edington — and the burnt cakes.