Candy Land is a simple racing board game. It has become a cultural icon in the U.S., where it is often the first board game played by children because it requires no ability to read and only minimal counting skills. Baba Lou Baba Lou Jigaboo Jigaboo, Candyland motherfucker, it's motherfucking Candy Land! 24 inches, around... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1003x431, 746 KB) The Candyland board game, photographed by FaerieInGrey 16:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC) plus life=candy life this is not a copyrighted game anyone can resell it for a butload of money I, the creator of this work... Color vision is the capacity of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths (or frequencies) of the light they reflect or emit. ... A board game is a game played with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a board (a premarked surface, usually specific to that game). ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...

Game play

The race is straightforward, woven around a simple story line about finding the lost king of Candyland. The board consists of a winding, linear track made of 134 spaces, most of which are one of the rainbow colors (aside from indigo). The remaining few spaces are named locations such as Candy Cane Forest and Gum Drop Mountain, or characters like Queen Frostine and Lord Licorice. Full featured double rainbow in Wrangell-St. ... Indigo is the color on the spectrum between about 450 and 420 nm in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet. ...

Players take turns removing the top card from a randomized stack, most of which show one of six colors, and then moving their marker ahead to the next space of that color. 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. 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. This move can be either forward or backward in the classic game; backward moves are ignored in the current game. Finally, there are three colored squares marked with a dot. A player that lands on such a square is stuck (all cards are ignored) until a card is drawn of the same color as the square. The game is won by landing on or passing the final square - the official rules explicitly specify that any card that would cause the player to advance past the last square wins the game, but many people play you must land exactly on the last square to win.

The classic game takes longer to complete than one might expect, because the location cards can send players backwards.

History of Candy Land

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Versions of Candy Land

Candy Land (1949)

At least three different versions of the Candy Land board game were made. A picture from the Elliott Avedon Museum, copyright 1962, shows a track layout different from the more modern versions. The next revision, from the 1980s and 1990s, has the modern track layout, and ends with a purple square. The rules specify that any card that would cause you to advance past the purple square wins the game, but many people play you must land exactly on it. In the most modern version, there is a rainbow-striped square at the end to make the official rule visually explicit. The rules for the modern game also specify that a character card resulting in a backward move can be ignored, resulting in a much shorter game if desired. Finally, some of the characters are renamed in the modern version - Queen Frostine is Princess Frostine, for example. Image File history File links Candyland-1949. ... Image File history File links Candyland-1949. ...

Additionally, a VCR board game version of the game was made in 1986, although distribution of the game appears to have been limited. An animated 2005 feature Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure was produced and later spawned a DVD game version of Candy Land.

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Mathematics of Candy Land

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There is no optimal strategy, or indeed any decision making, involved in CandyLand. The moves are wholly determined by the cards, which are drawn in order. The only random chance element comes from each shuffling of the deck. Every time the deck is shuffled, one of three outcome is pre-determined - one of the two players wins, or the deck will need to be shuffled again after it is used.

Candy Land characters

• Mr. Mint
• Gramma Nutt
• King Kandy
• Jolly
• Plumpy (taken out of the most recent version of the game)
• Mama Ginger Tree (replaces Plumpy)
• Princess Lolly (renamed 'Lolly' after 2002 edition)
• Queen Frostine (renamed 'Princess Frostine' after 2002 edition)
• Lord Licorice
• Gloppy the Molasses Monster

Candyland in Popular Culture

• An episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured a game of Candyland in which Brain Guy became trapped in Molasses Swamp. His time there was apparently extensive as he referred to it as his "own personal hell."
• In That '70s Show, main character Eric Forman kept a secret stash of money (which, ironically, all of his friends and family members knew about) in a Candyland box.
• The Candy section of Toys R Us in NYC's Times Square maintained a CandyLand theme, until losing their license for the characters in 2006. The theme included a colored pathway that mimicked the board for the game, several CandyLand characters, and candy-themed shelving and ceiling decorations.
• In an episode of The Andy Milonakis Show, Andy plays CandyLand with Fat Joe. Andy wins and Fat Joe controls his temper, unlike playing Battleship & Operation, where he got angry and destroyed the boards.
• During a dry spell, the video game review show X-Play did a more or less earnest review of Candyland as if it were a videogame. For a board game meant for young children, it scored rather well.
• In an episode of Full House, D.J. Tanner, who snuck Stephanie and Michelle into the movies and got caught convinced Michelle to tell Dad that she played Candyland with D.J. and won a dingdong
• In an episode of Boy Meets World, Cory Matthews stays home to play Candy Land with Morgan Matthews (Boy Meets World) after his brother, Eric Matthews (Boy Meets World), ditches him to double date with Shawn Hunter, Cory's best friend.

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Trivia

• The original 1949 edition of Candy Land only had locations (Molasses Swamp, Gumdrop Mountains, etc.) and no characters. Mr. Mint, Gramma Nutt, and the rest showed up in later versions.
• The 2002 edition of Candy Land replaced the classic Molasses Swamp with Chocolate Swamp. The theory behind this change is that children are more familiar with chocolate than molasses.
• The Give Kids the World: Village edition of Candy Land was produced by Hasbro especially for the Give Kids the World Village. The GKTW Village is a nonprofit resort in Kissimmee, Florida for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. In this version, traditional Candy Land characters and locations were replaced with the venues and characters of the Village. Characters like Mayor Clayton, Ms. Merry, and others are represented on the board.

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Internet name

Candyland was involved in one of the first disputes over internet domain names. An adult web content provider registered candyland.com, and Hasbro objected. Hasbro was able to obtain an injunction against the use, and now owns the site. The term domain name has multiple related meanings: A name that identifies a computer or computers on the internet. ...

External links

• Hasbro sites:
  • Hasbro's Candy Land page
  • Another Hasbro page devoted to CandyLand. Includes the history and pictures of older versions.
  • Official rules of classic version, in PDF format from the Hasbro site.
• Mathematical Analysis of 1-4 player game. Includes a picture of the (classic) board.
• Deeper Mathematical Analysis of 1 player game. Finds expected length of a 1 person game accurate to several hundred digits.
• Monte Carlo analysis of Candyland, Cootie, and Chutes and Ladders. Results for Candyland differ slightly from the analyses above.
• Information about Candyland from the Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games.
• Injunction against using candyland.com for an adult web site
• Candy Land: Give Kids the World: Village Edition