Candy Land

by Bob
(Boston)

Candy Land. Sweeeeet

My very favorite board game is Candy Land. It is an old classic. I like to play it with my nieces and nephews, because it is a simple game that they can learn to play quickly without knowing how to read.


It helps them to learn their colors and, because there are cards with one and two color squares on them, early counters can benefit from differentiating between 'one' and 'two'. It also does not utilize a spinner, which for young children is difficult to handle.


It has a lot of fun colors and pictures of a fantastical place that any child would kill to visit. Candy Land also is a fairly short game. Many board games seem to last for ever and ever.


Candy Land is fairly quick anyway, but you can speed it up if you sneak a few of the special space cards into the upper part of the deck.


Many times, young children do not understand the concept of being sent backwards on the board if they get a special card that is not in their favor. But slightly older children become more interested in playing by the rules.

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