The deck also contains one card for each named location, and drawing such a card moves a player directly to that location's space on the board. Some cards have two marks of a color, in which case the player moves his or her marker ahead to the second-next space of that color. Players take turns removing the top card from a stack, most of which show one of six colors, and then moving their marker ahead to the next space of that color. The remaining few spaces are named locations such as Candy Cane Forest and Gum Drop Mountain, or characters like Queen Frostine and Gramma Nutt. The board consists of a winding, linear track made of 134 spaces, most of which are red, green, blue, yellow, orange or violet. The race is straightforward, woven around a simple story line about finding the lost king of Candy Land. It has become a cultural icon in the United States, where it is among the first board games played by children because it requires no ability to read and only minimal counting skills. Come on, we all know that's what you thought.Ĭandy Land, or Candyland, is a simple racing board game. I bet you all thought this was named after Mrs Captain Picard.

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