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guess cake en · NOUN
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(historical) A cake used in a fundraising game, in which individuals pay money to guess the weight of a cake (or, in other versions, to guess the identity of an object baked into the cake), with the cake going to the winner.
The principal feature of the evening was a grab bag and a guess cake, from which the ladies realized a handsome sum for the treasury.
1892, “Whispers”, in Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal, page 334:
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