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Cakewalk (carnival game)

Game at funfairs to raise money

Cakewalk (or cake-walk) is a game played at carnivals, funfairs, and fundraising events. It is similar to a raffle and musical chairs.

Background

Tickets are sold to participants, and a path of numbered squares is laid out on a rug, with one square per ticket sold. The participants walk around the path in time to music, which plays for a duration and then stops. A number is drawn at random and called out, and the person standing on that number wins a cake as a prize (hence the name).

During the 1930s, the English poet John Betjeman described St Giles' Fair in Oxford as follows:

It is about the biggest fair in England. The whole of St Giles' … is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.

References

[http://www.carnivalsavers.com/cakewalk.html Carnival Booth Idea: Cake Walk], [http://www.carnivalsavers.com/ Carnival Savers].
Alison Petch, [http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-st-giles-fair.html Calendar related artefacts: St Giles Fair], [http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/ England: The Other Within], [[Pitt Rivers Museum]], Oxford, UK.

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