1) In Michaelmas and Lent, around Lists of around 100 items are released every 2 or 3 weeks.)

[In Mayweek, we instead release Items Lists before Mayweek and many at the start of, or during, Mayweek.]

2) Each Item is something to find, imagine, draw, act out...

The Items List is to be seen as a restaurant menu, catering for multiple different tastes, rather than something to do in its entirety. As such you are very welcome to participate just as Silly CakeFaeries, as Duelly CakeFaeries, or as Listeny CakeFaeries', or as any combination of these :)

Many Items List Sections are Silly, by which this is the main activity of Silly CakeFaeries alias the Sheila and her Dog Society :)

Baked or fondant cake decoration items are also useable.

Some Items List Sections are Puzzles, including the occasional Easter Egg Hunt or similar :)

Some Items List Sections are team versus team challenges, including waterpistol battles off university property. As such, this is also one of the main activities of Duelly CakeFaeries alias Cambridge Safer Spaces Waterfighting.

0) Participants are known as Hunty CakeFaeries :) To participate, whether as an individual or as a team of up to 7 people max, though not more than 5 in person and not more than 5 not-in-person, sign up by emailing cakefaeries *at* gmail.com.

1) There is no deadline for signing up.

2) People are welcome to sign up early, seek to form a team and then tell us who the team are :)

3) At the start and end of Term, Hunty CakeFaerie Judges can be found at various meeting points, including Picnics and outdoor events. for in-person scoring of items, and inter-team contests. Participants will be emailed times and places of these as they become known.

4) Approximately half of the Items can be done not-in-person. Silly chainwriting, Listeny ideas and contributions, and inventing new words are examples :)

5) We are a society in which why we do things matters more than what we do. So the main objectives are to meet people, make friends, cooperation, and understanding and supporting each other :)

6) Items are awarded points; it is always possible to score at least part of the points with partial efforts :)

7) The team(s) with the most points wins. Even among dedicated Hunty CakeFaeries, however, the aim is to hunt well, rather than 'to win'. This is reflected by two teams needing only approximately-equal score to be awarded a joint-equal place. For now, two term-by-term adjustable approximation criteria used are being 10% ahead and both having over twice as many points as the subsequent team.

8) There is a trophy that's running out of space for winning team name engravements. This might lead to a new trophy being purchased, or to the table of past teams which hunted well serving in this regard.

9) There are 3 sections of Serious Rules you must read and abide by to participate: Conduct, Safety and Disclaimer. And one section of detailed rules of Scavenger Hunting itself.

These have the status of provisional rules, in the sense that, from term to term, further Conduct, Safety and Disclaimer rules may be added (but never removed or diminished). This means that if you've done this previous terms, you should still scan the rules for ones marked with 'Updated'.

10) We are hosted on the Hunty CakeFaeries' website Following previous years’ successes, we are hoping to put photographs of interesting items on the website soon after we get them...

C.0) Most importantly, be friendly during all parts of the activity.

This certainly includes between team members, toward members of other teams, Hunty CakeFaeries Judges, Safer Space Custodians and any other CakeFaerie organizers.

C.1) No -isms, -phobias, or erasory statements, concerning not only legally-protected peoples but others as well, including specifically Non-Binary, Ace, Poly, Kink, Pan, Survivor, Bullied, X-Closeted, X-Dysphoria and X-Fluid peoples, among others.

[X denotes `any kind of' :) Any other peoples, that are legal and tolerant toward all other tolerant peoples, are welcome to ask to be added. Last Updated L19.]

There is also specifically No Discrimination on Grounds of Age or Occupation here: any Cantabs or ARU people are precisely as welcome as people at Cambridge; Grads, Mature Students, Postdocs... etc etc are all equally welcome.

C.2) To be involved in the Scavenger Hunt is to Consent to be Met.

But Not a card to Intrude beyond Welcome.

It is a Promise that all actions carried out in connection with the Scavenger Hunt are grounded on Friendly Conduct.

Being Met need not entail naming yourself; you're entirely welcome to use an alias or no name at all if that suits your needs.

C.3) As the Scavenger Hunt is a friendly and fun activity, do not get carried away and do anything you will later regret.

As a friendly and fun activity, there is No Excuse for nasty or inappropriate behaviour during the activity or over its organizing.

C.4) The GIVEN by CakeFaeries' Safer Space's primary rule is that

"A person is Upset if they say they are, and Without Having to Say Why. Apologies are expected, as are Non-repeats of what caused it."

C.5) You are entitled, if you so wish, to view the activity as an icebreaker game rather than a place to hunt well.

C.6) You can however view your own participation in the Scavenger Hunt as hunting well.

What you cannot do is put pressure on others to view it that way, or expect or presume that others are viewing it that manner. To be clear, this includes that you cannot put pressure on others to view it competitively, or expect or presume that others are viewing it competitively).

Finally, 'competitivity' (or 'hunting well') will never excuse real-life nastiness or irresponsibility. Only the type of 'sporting competitivity' - in which all of team-mates, other teams' participants, Judges, and any other CakeFaeries, are valued and respected - is accepted here.

C.7) In the unlikely event that you and some other team's participant were to really not get on well, come and see the Hunty CakeFaeries Judges separately. Each such team would get an approximately equal proportion of judging time.

C.8) None of the inter-team contests require, or condone, use of physical force.

C.9) Duelly CakeFaeries have further Conduct Rules here. Waterpistol-less Team-versus-Team Events are also subject to the waterpistol-less subset of these Conduct Rules. [Last updated: E19]

S.1) No Scavenger Hunt items are any kind of excuse for bothering, alarming or elsewise causing a nuisance or inconvenience to members of the general public.

S.2) No Scavenger Hunt items are illegal, or any kind of excuse to break the law, let along bring yourself to the attention of the Police.

Do nothing illegal, or which could be mistaken by onlookers as criminal or terrorist activity etc.

S.3) No Scavenger Hunt items involve messing around in university property, or intruding uninvited into any parts of it where you don't belong.

As such, if you get portered etc during some side-venture in course of this Scavenger Hunt, we waive all responsibility since none of our items are connected with intruding uninvited into any parts of university property.

If you e.g. wish to borrow items from a friend for Scavenger Hunt use, you would follow the college in question's accompanied guest policy. For some colleges, this can e.g. require being met at the gate by your friend rather than just wandering through by yourself. If you do it this way, you won't be portered. If you were to be portered anyway, through not knowing or applying the procedure (or elsewise) you would mention the true primary reason you are there - to see your friend - rather than secondary matters such as a tenuous connection to a scavenger hunt that is not being run there... If portered anyway, politely comply with any request to leave, or offer if needs be to phone your friend to verify they are indeed your friend.

Despite all this, we nonetheless require you to carry Uni ID during all the time in which you do Scavenger Hunt things (or the Cantab equivalent of it, knowing the greater limitations of it).

We can provide some advice if needs be, though if a friend offers to lend you something, you should explain there is necessity to follow the accompanied guest procedure on this occasion (even if you visit often without this for your entirely personal reasons).

S.4) None of our items or activities involve, or excuse, causing material damage.

S.5) If you can't provide a reasonable explanation for exactly what you are doing to any Police Officers, members of the public, Porters, Fellows... who challenge you over doing it, then you shouldn't be doing it.

Scavenger Hunt activities stay entirely within what the public, the University and the Police tolerate.

The Scavenger Hunt does Not Condone any course of action that leads to confrontation with people in authority.

S.6) Exercise Common Sense at all times.

S.7) Participants are Entirely Responsible for their own behaviour.

S.8) You participate in the Scavenger Hunt At your Own Risk. We are not liable for any mishaps that you or your pet goldfish may encounter while coincidentally involved in our activities.

S.9) No Scavenger Hunt items involve, or condone, harming your team members, other teams' members or the Hunty CakeFaeries Judges.

S.10) If an accident should occur, contact the Emergency Services when appropriate, just as one would in whatever other setting.

S.11) People who feel unsafe in the absense of certain others aren't to be separated from team mates. This is to be taken into account if anyone's recruitment effort generates more than one team of paticipants.

Somewhat similarly, people saying they're up for alliances with other incipient under-sized teams does not mean they agree to form team with whoever; they can say No to whichever further propsed merger involving their growing team.

It is possible to be on more than one team. You then however have to decide for which team each item you produce is scored.

Personal Safety concerns of anyone present always take precedence over rules or 'team tactics' as regards splitting up.

This includes respecting matters of Personal Space and Personal Boundaries, as well as not losing or leaving behind team members in unfamilar territory, especially if they've made it known they don't feel safe out and about by themselves.

S.12) No Photos or Videos are accepted if anybody in them did not consent to being in them. In fact, as a default, we don't do photos or videos of people as items, and certainly never attach such to the Hunty CakeFaeries' website.

S.13) If you feel the organizers have not taken into account any aspect of your safety, be welcome to inform us immediately.

Raising Safety or Conduct rules concerns is no excuse for unfriendliness, greatly aiding in creating a high standard of Safety and Conduct.

S.14) In the unlikely event of a problem arising during a CakeFaerie-ing mission, say `` SafeOut " to alert all CakeFaeries present that there is a problem. This is so that all stop what they are doing and immediately pay attention to the nature of the problem. Inform a Great CakeFaerie or other Safer Space Custodian of what has occurred if no such is present. These can ensure all is OK and understood as regards avoiding future similar occurrences. In the event of a member not being OK with saying why, 'understood' is within what that allows.

S.15) In the unlikely event that you know or feel that there is a breach of Conduct or Safety rules during a Scavenger Hunt activity, the immediate way to deal with it is by clearly stating the phrase "SafeOut".

i) SafeOut stops the activity until all participants present understand why it was evoked and that the reason for it no longer applies.

ii) SafeOut covers all Conduct and Safety matters , immediately stopping the activity to nip the problem in the bud. Be it Safety or Security matters, Common Decency, Friendliness, Inclusion, or Safer Space matters.

iii) SafeOut moreover includes "SafeOut: one of us is causing it".

The way this case is handled is our Safer Spaces' prime rule (1) is our motto when dealing with internal issues caused by our own members.

S.16) Thus SafeOut is the most significant practical rule in the entire set: if there is any Serious Rules problem, immediately freeze play and nip it in the bud.

S.17) Because of partly similar use elsewhere to mark serious rules issues, if you state `Stop the Game', `Stop the Hunt', `TimeOut', `Man Down' instead of SafeOut, organizers will heed these as meaning 'there is a serious rules issue that needs to be dealt with immediately'.

This covers e.g.\ some people feeling silly or anxious using safety words in general, and are happier using ones they've seen successfully used elsewhere.

If at a Safer Space anyone uses 'Stop the Game' etc, it is Safer Space Rules and jurisdiction which apply. The clarification process might now conceivably need to ascertain which group the person making the call thinks we are. This is so that it is confirmed to be a SafeOut in our jurisdiction, rather than a wanderer who literally meant 'Stop the Game' because they thought it was that other society's picnic. This matters because, jurisdictions aside, different safety words cover different ranges of situations.

S.18) It being possible for another activity, society or group to be triggering, however, a SafeOut might need to include explaining that we'd much rather they use some other safeword that is not triggering in our Safer Spaces in future. This can include jointly searching for another safeword that all involved are ok with.

S.19) SafeOut can solely be used to defend oneself and not to personally attack anyone else. Like all other Safer Space things, SafeOut is an abuse-free zone. SafeOut is to ensure that anybody causing upset, deliberately or otherwise, backs off and apologizes. And that there are no repeats of what caused it.

You are obviously not allowed to have a SafeOut only for "hunting or scoring profit" (e.g.\ to buy time). But if you notice a serious rules issue at a time when a SafeOut would give you a `competitive edge', remember that all CakeFaeries activities, e.g. Scavenger Hunt, Duels, Chainwriting, are explicitly not a competition and that serious rules issues trump any in-event scenario.

S.20) Do not hesitate to start a SafeOut. It does not matter if you think it the matter might be 'too trivial', or something that 'I could probably solve myself', or 'about a past occurrence' or because there's been another SafeOut recently or there's been none for ages.

S.21) If you're not comfortable making a SafeOut yourself, you can bring the issue up quietly with a Safer Space Custodian, and they'll sort things out on your behalf. (Asking them "Can I talk to you for a moment?" and then immediately walking away from the group is a functionally easy way to get them alone.) The 'not having to say why' includes not having to state that SafeOut is being evoked on behalf of someone else.

S.22) You can use "SafeOut. Must leave now." if you have to leave immediately for unspecified personal reasons. Such are not to be impeded from leaving on any grounds.

S.23) You may not ignore or trivialize current or past SafeOuts, nor hold them against anyone in any way (e.g. gossiping or joking about it after the fact). In fact, it is technically possible to be banned from the Safer Spaces solely for disrespecting a SafeOut.

S.24) Duelly CakeFaeries have further Safety-and-Security Rules here [Updated E19].

Waterpistol-less Team-versus-Team Events are also subject to the waterpistol-less subset of Duelly CakeFaeries' Safety-and-Security Rules.

1.1) In signing up, give your team-mates' names and a team name...

Team names are usually one or both of Silly and Descriptive.

Team names like "X and the Y's" have been popular in the past, e.g. indicating that a team captain X recruited several people with something in common Y :)

1.2) People signing up individually are welcome to indicate they're up for alliances with other individual entrants or small teams.

1.3) The maximum team size is 7, with 5 max in person and 5 max not-in-person.

1.4) If your recruitment effort mobilized more than 5 people total, you can enter multiple teams. These score separately.

1.5) Names of team-mates, other participants or Hunty CakeFaeries Judges are confidential: they are not to be divulged on the internet, social media or to enquiring non-members.

1.6) Not-in-Person Meaningful Indirect Participation is something which a lot of Closeted, Bullied and Survivor folk appreciate. This is built into this ruleset and into the proportions of kinds of items on the lists.

1.7) Substitutions will be considered should a team member have to miss a significant portion of the Scavenger Hunt, for instance due to examinations, or to broaden scope of Ally training.

2.1) The Scavenger Hunt list will be put up online on our website at the start of the hunt; printouts of it will also be available from the Hunty CakeFaeries Judges at the start.

2.2) The Scavenger Hunt list is divided by theme into sections.

3.1) Most of the entries in the list will be items.

These are typically worth a static number of points.

We haven't the time or inclination to fully detail each entry, so try to get the most obvious thing implied by what is written.

We are usually pleased with good fakes however; these can score most of the points the genuine item would get you. Some items don't distinguish the two, by freedom of representation.

Additionally, if you can bring us something that is not the item we intended, but in some way makes a pun or play on words with, what was written, kudos, we’ll probably give you the full points. The same applies to use of lateral thinking...

3.2) Creativity is also valued; difficult to find items are already rewarded by being stated as worth high scores.

3.3) In-Person Participants, we principally wish for you to physically bring items to us (or state them, act them out). This time, we weight more on things that could be materially carried to absent judges (e.g. writing, drawing, and neither bigger nor heavier than an apple. Nor would we keep 'a sack' of these apples).

However for items where photographs or videos are implied, we encourage submission via email attachment to the Hunty CakeFaeries Judges, as long as you also notify us in person.

Even if not, some partial pointage will be awarded for photo or art versions of the item, especially if puns, play on words, lateral thinking or 'artistic licence' are manifest.

3.4) When you are bringing items to score, please tell us the item number to make it easier for us to give you the points.

3.5) Those items that include a superlative adjective (largest or longest for instance) will be ranked at the end of the hunt and then the points stated will be awarded to the largest or longest item presented for that item.

The second item will score four fewer points, and two fewer for each subsequent ones.

The maximum points for these items is 5 x (Number of Teams) + 6.

3.6) We cannot offer to store items for participants, either temporarily or overnight.

Scavenger Hunt List Items left behind at the end of the hunt will be taken or thrown away at our discretion.

3.7) We won't publish photographs and videos unless you tell us to. It is our policy to only publish such if they Contain no People.

3.8) Tasks. Some of the list entries will be simple tasks.

Where possible, performing them in front of the Hunty CakeFaeries Judges is preferable, but if not video or photographic evidence will usually be accepted subject to safety rule S.12): having no people in them.

3.9) Alternatives to videos, pictures with people in them can be discussed with the Hunty CakeFaeries Judges to provide further ways to score.

3.10) Aside from tasks which score statically or superlatively as above, some tasks have an element of creativity and a qualitative judgement is required. In these cases, we will score out of a stated maximum, and you should feel free to use flattery and persuasion (but not abrasiveness or mere repetition) to obtain more points for your efforts.

3.11) Money. We intend you not to have to spend any more over the whole of mayweek on this than whichever is smaller of (what you would usually spend having a fun day out) and £20. Whilst some things can easily be obtained through financial means, we really don’t want you spending money on things you can’t afford, so buy at your own discretion. Responsibility for this lies with you. It is entirely possible to Scavenger Hunt well while spending not a single penny...

3.12) We will not be impressed by underhand tactics, particularly involving members of other teams.

3.13) Many sections will have an uncapped scoring item, along the lines of '1 point per 4 puns on the subject of ...'.

3.13) Most of the scoring system has been described above. However you should remember that we’re really very easily impressed by items and if we feel you’ve gone beyond the call of duty for a particular item or task, we will not hesitate to award bonus points.

3.14) Bonus points are also awarded if all the items of a particular section have been completed. In this case, 20% of that section’s total points (excluding any uncapped items) will be added on at the end of the hunt.

3.15) The Winterfell Regularization Rule. Anybody formally scoring infnity for an item will get (largest finite-score item) + 100.

3.16) The Blackribbonner Regularization Rule. No item can contribute more than 10% to the team total. This is not implemented hardly, meaning that teams giving us 9 or less items, none of which have an outrageous score, would keep those points. I.e. this regularization does not cut into part-time teams' efforts. Outrageous is moreover a relative term, i.e. determined in relation to the distribution of unregularized scores.

3.15) We encourage you to visit or email at regular intervals with updates on your progress :)

3.16) All in all, keeping us updated on your progress is the best thing you can do to impress us!

3.17) Some Items List Sections involve Ally and/or Listeny CakeFaerie things.

3.18) A subset of these, on Safety-and-Security, can also be entertained by those doing Duelly CakeFaeries for this reason, whether for own use or as Ally to others.

3.19) Fuzzy rankings and open-minded thinking mean that most parts of this Scavenger Hunt has no notion of 'common garden variety cheating'.

Even such as playfully trying to pass off another team's items that are already present as one's own would, at first, be met with such as 'that's not your potato clock :) but half-points if you serenade it'...

In battles, and other team contests, the "Duelly CakeFaeries' unsure events procedure" includes the eventuality of common garden variety cheating, as well as possible such, and misunderstandings that might look like such. The gist of this is to calmly ask if they're down (not assert that they are), which leads to checking for plausible evidence while being temporarily free from getting downed. With guarantee that everyone directly involved has their say (and organizers when required). All free from Serious Rules infringements. In the unlikely event any such appeared, SafeOut would be called as per everywhere else.

Participating entails always being fine with a decision not going your way.

This includes with such as 'successfully appealing Not Out twice in a row means that one will be Out no matter what the third time' possibly being declared in some events, the contests being multiple-round so that any loss is negligible anyway, and encouraged to spend time on more rounds rather than on some endless cavalcade of appeals.

3.20) Decisions. All item-assessment decisions of the Hunty CakeFaeries Judges are final. Final :)

D.1) In taking part, we remind you all that you are adults and responsible for your own actions, and any consequences thereof. Not reading these rules is no defense against breaking them. Individual CakeFaeries may not speak for the CakeFaeries as a whole, nor for GIVEN by CakeFaeries as a whole and as such can not use our activity or our rules as an excuse for their behaviour.

D.2) Risk Assessment. We do not believe that the activities of the Scavenger Hunt present any significant hazards, require the use of any equipment that requires special safety training, the use of or result in the production of harmful chemicals, fumes or dust, or for you to enter any dangerous or confined space.

D.3) The CakeFaeries' Scavenger Hunt is a Safer Space activity: zero personal abuse tolerated during this activity or over its running. If anyone is upset, proper apologies are expected, as are non-repeats of what caused it.

D.4) All Conduct, Safety and Disclaimer rules of participation apply also to the organizing.

D.5) We retain the right to ban any individuals who majorly or repeatedly break the Conduct, Safety or Disclaimer rules.

Official complaints about a person's behaviour during our activities will almost certainly result in banning.

Involvement of the police will definitely cause you to be banned.

To date, none of this has ever happened to somebody doing the CakeFaeries' Scavenger Hunt...

Banning may also include any individuals with a history of deliberately hurting others, or of not abiding by other activities' Conduct, Safety or Disclaimer rules in which apologizing and avoiding repeats are the procedure for defusing tensions and avoiding escalations. GIVEN by CakeFaeries' Safer Spaces' further disclaimers cover various further possible banning situations.

D.6) Nothing other than breaches of conduct or safety rules can result in a ban.

D.7) On the subject of 'did you break serious rules?', nobody is to lie to the Hunty CakeFaeries Judges, Safer Space Custodians, or to any Deputies any of these appoint to investigate such.

D.8) Not heeding a 'SafeOut' may under some circumstances suffice for a ban.

D.9) GIVEN by CakeFaeries' Disclaimer also applies, whenever required.

Bans: in the - for the CakeFaeries activity! - very unlikely event of someone seriously breaching these Important Conduct Rules of friendliness/safety/no trouble^*, they may be banned from it and may find that this ban extends to the rest of the Safer Spaces run by our Society-Group. The Great CakeFaeries' (or other Safer Space Custodians') rulings are final, and there is no right of appeal against a banning. If our Safer Spaces are messed around with, measures from our other Disclaimers may be used, or from our peoples' ways outside of what we declare on public spaces. Basically, whilst it is not all we are, we are foremost places of respite for vulnerable people, and so we will take any attacks on our Safer Space activities or our Custodians around as seriously as attacks on counselling service personnel, JCR reps or college tutors.

Disclaimer A We are specifically an apolitical space, rather than any kind of politicized space.

Disclaimer B We are not, and never have been a student society at Cambridge University.

We are, rather, a tolerant society in Cambridge (the city).

B.1) One salient difference between these two things is that we are in no way associated with Cambridge University. Or for that matter with any other university, or college or department subset thereof. Most of what we run is in the geographical location of Cambridge. However we only meet off university property. As such our society meetings are unrelated to any university, or college or department subset thereof. As such, our society meetings lie outside the scope of any appointees, representatives, regulators, or officials of (in each case) universities.

B.2) Another salient difference is that we treat members of Cambridge's other university - Anglia Ruskin University - exactly the same as members of Cambridge University, and likewise with alumns of either. Our activities are for people of at least university age, on the grounds that the legal situation would be different elsewise. Our activities are furthermore in no way restricted against those who are no longer at university. Nor are they in any way restricted against those that are no longer undergraduates, or some other 'elsewhere approved' list of 'types of student'. Item B.2) is what we mean in saying that we are a tolerantly-run society rather than a student society.

B.3) To be explicit, we are not registered with the university or student union.

B.4) What we do is exercise our freedom of association, by meeting off university property, lawfully, for entirely peaceful purposes, and abiding within COVID regulations. This includes meeting not more than 2 at a time when required and not more than 6 at a time when required. We have never even vaguely come close to having meetings involving person numbers that require informing local authorities of a planned gathering under non-pandemic legislation.

B.5) To be clear, we do icebreakers and relaxation. We do not run debates, give seminars or invite speakers. We are entirely unofficial, and our meetings are neither on university premises nor in any way registered with any university, college or department.