By playing games with others, children are encouraged to socially interact in a more controlled manner, which helps develop character for future endeavors.įor over 50 years children and their loved ones have been taking the magical journey through Candy Land! They've shared special times with Mr. The game promotes thinking as well as patience in the form of waiting one's turn to play. As a primary learning game, Candy Land fosters a child's exposure to following directions, taking turns, color recognition and count skills. This game is suitable to two to four players, children and adult and children can even play it alone. With all these enticing, sugarcoated images (and King Kandy plainly visible at path's end), children can't help but be delighted by Candyland. There are occasional pitfalls, too: land on the wrong square and you might be stuck in Molasses Swamp until a red card is drawn. Playing cards thoughtfully designed for non-readers are coded with colorful squares matching the jeweled stepping-stone path or an occasional token matching one of the characters' symbols: draw a blue card, move to the nearest blue stepping-stone draw a snowflake and earn a visit to Queen Frostine's iceberg.
The player who reaches the Candy Castle first wins. Players move their primary-colored gingerbread people around the rainbow path, moving through the Peppermint Stick Forest by matching the color spaces to the colors on the pick deck.
The color-themed game requires no reading on the part of the players and is easy for even the youngest of children to follow. For generations, boys and girls have enjoyed Candyland as their first board game.