You know those Stacker machines you see in truck stop gas stations? The ones that task you with dropping blocks at an increasingly rapid pace onto the pile in order to win the real prizes dangling inside the machine. I had a friend that spent a sizable chunk of money on one of those machines to try and win a $200 gas card so that they could use it to go to New York City. He lost on the very last block he needed and their impromptu trip was a bust. If only he'd had Feed the King to help him practice.
Most of the time the Stacker machine gives you really great prizes if you win, though I came across one in a small town with a keychain coin purse and a cheap $20 camera as the big rewards. Feed the King offers you even less, but it is pretty charming. The king is hungry, and you have to stack cakes on his platter as high as you possibly can in order to satiate his hunger.
Usually you want to stack them perfectly straight, but in Feed the King you get bonuses for stacking the cakes right on the edge of the prior cake, or plopping them down right next to a floating bomb. And let's not forget the bonus for crushing a bird that happened to land on your pile.
The bonuses force you to tweak your strategy throughout. I usually start off by trying to drop every cake right on the edge, but as they move faster that causes me to make mistakes. Once you've dropped three cakes, it pans back down to the king, where he is launched into the air. You then have to move him back and forth to make sure he gets to eat every one of his cakes. It's just one more level of strategy, because if you went for nothing but edge bonuses, you probably won't be able to eat every cake.
All in all, it's a fun time killer, and completely free. Play it over at Kongregate, and let me know how badly you beat my high score of 35,978.
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