4-Person Bakery Memory Game

Do you like memory games? Do you think that they can be fun as well as useful exercises for your mind? The folks at Jumping High Five believe that not only can memory games be fun but they can have different levels of challenge for the entire family. While the box shows kids, we'll check on whether or not adults could enjoy this game, too. I was sent a free copy of My First Bakery Board Game as a member of the Vine program to test out and review on Amazon; this article is a bonus for the game maker and for the seller. Using our links to check out the product will give us a tiny associate fee, but otherwise no other form of compensation was received for sharing my family's experience with this game with you all today.

Bakery Boards Fronts

The instructions on how to play are printed on the inside of the top box. I like that because it isn't wasting paper in any way. However, there is left over cardboard once you punch out all of the pieces you need. You can choose to play cooperatively or competitively; we love more cooperative games in my house, so we play that style of game most often. With the cooperative style there are two levels of difficulty. The front side of the bakery boards has four desserts you need to find the matches for. As you can see, you have four colors, four characters, or four bakery names to pick from, whichever connects best for you. I love green so I went with the Green Cakes whenever we play. When you are looking for matches, each board has unique desserts so while you can still lose if you draw too many Timer Tiles, it is generally easy to remember where matches are.

The back of the bakery boards include some of the same desserts as on other boards. The only difference now is the color of the border. Here's the expanded side of my green Bakery Board. Both the cinnamon rolls and the gingerbread folks matched cards on other board.

Not only that, but you add in 8 to 16 more tiles making the memory board bigger to play on. With my family of three, this was 12 more tiles but we found the game got a lot harder. We had played the front side of the boards and it took some time for our minds to adjust to needing to remember the color borders, too. This is what the game looks like for us. We used a grid pattern but it does not say you need to do that in the instructions. To make it even more difficult, don't use a grid or any pattern, just spread out the Item Tiles (I think of them as dessert tiles).

The directions on how to play are fairly clear but you do need to take your time to read them. (Unlike my hubby who likes to speed through and then gets himself and us flustered.) We are a family of three adults and we loved this game. It was challenging but fun because we were helping each other. When we tried the more competitive version, where you can only place cards on your own board, we found we lost more often and felt less happy.

If you are looking for fun games for the whole family, you should consider this My First Bakery Board Game. We've had a lot of fun playing it every time. It will suit two to four players of almost any age if they can understand the concept of memory and matching games as well as helping each other out.