Candyland - The World of Sweets Board Game
by Hasbro
List Price:
Our Price: $7.88
You Save: $3.11 (28%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $7.47 (click here)
Category: Toy
See more product details
Product Summary
Manufacturer: HasbroBrand: Hasbro
Format: CD
Model: 4700 S5
Product features:
- Classic game with updated graphics and sculpted, detailed pawns
- Passing the peppermint forest and the ice cream sea on the way, the first one to reach the candy castle wins
- No reading required to play
- This is the classic "child's first game", and preschoolers will love it
- Instructions are in both Spanish and English
- Children draw colored cards, and move their plastic gingerbread playing tokens to the next square of the same color
Toys and Games Reviews of Candyland - The World of Sweets Board Game
Customer Review: Highly overrated
Summary: 2 Stars
Many adults don't like playing board games. Why? Because they think that all board games are more-or-less nothing more than sophisticated versions of Candyland - games which rely on nothing more complicated than random chance.
The fact is that random chance doesn't make a very interesting game for adults (unless you're making bets, I suppose), and it doesn't make a very interesting game for children either if they're used to games with more strategy involved. (My young nieces, for example, *will* ask a lot for Candyland - but only because I am not willing to play it with them very often.)
Some people think that the lack of strategy makes these games easy for young children, and that's probably true, but it also makes it frustrating for them - they hit a losing streak and they have *no way* to turn it around, and they know that. I have never seen the same frustration with losing in games like Sleeping Queens or Crazy Eights that I have in Candyland - and, tellingly, when my older niece loses Crazy Eights she pouts and then asks to play again. When she loses Candyland, she pouts and puts the game away!
Some chance is good in a game for kids - it levels the game. But I do not think a game that is entirely based on luck is a good idea.
Instead of Candyland, I'd reccommend a game with some level of skill involved - Memory, or Froggy Boogie, perhaps.
There is no reason you and your kids have to be resigned to games of capricious fate.
Edit: I've found out why my niece likes this game at all. It's not for any aspect of the game itself - it's because when she loses or wins due to chance, we have her "draw a bedroom" for herself, or for us. We started doing it because she got too frustrated and upset at losing through no fault of her own.
Description of Candyland - The World of Sweets Board Game
This is the classic "child's first game", and preschoolers will love it. Children draw colored cards, and move their plastic gingerbread playing tokens to the next square of the same color. Passing the peppermint forest and the ice cream sea on the way, the first one to reach the candy castle wins. No need to read to play this game.2 to 4 players can play this game. This board game includes a game board, four plastic playing pieces, 64 cards, "Legend of the Lost Candy Castle", and instructions in English and Spanish."Once upon a time, King Kandy, the Imperial Head Bonbon and Grand Jujube of Candy Land disappeared." Thus begins the magical journey of Milton Bradley's classic Candy Land board game. Captivated by the story of a kidnapped king and eager to help find him, little ones move their gingerbread pawns along a rainbow path and through a land of candy characters, all subjects of King Kandy's realm.
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. There are occasional pitfalls, too: land on the wrong square and you might be stuck in Molasses Swamp until a red card is drawn. With all these enticing, sugarcoated images (and King Kandy plainly visible at path's end), children can't help but be delighted by Candy Land. It's delicious! Instructions are in both Spanish and English. Candy Land is for two to four players) --Julie Ubben
Board Games Toys
Toys and Games
Bestsellers in Board Games Toys
Munchkin Impossibleby Munchkin, Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games; Steve Jackson Games; Published: 2006-11-29; Toy
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
Knightmare Chess 2edby Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games; Steve Jackson Games; Published: 2002-03-01; Toy
Best price: $257.26
I Love Lucy SmartsSmartco; SMARTS; Release date: 2011-03-21; Toy
Best price: $9.94
Price in other shops:
That's Right, That's Wrong!: Level One, Set One (Game)by Alan Katz
Little Simon; Little Simon; Published: 2007-04-10; Toy
Best price: $3.95
Price in other shops:
Last Night on Earth Hero Pack One ExpansionFlying Frog Productions; Flying Frog Productions LLC; Toy
Best price: $19.95
Price in other shops:
NYC Smarts GameSmartsco; SMARTS; Release date: 2011-01-17; Toy
Best price: $9.80
Price in other shops:
Pit Fighter Fantasy Arena Game: Starter GameCWG; Toy
Best price: $24.95
Gift TRAP GameGiftTRAP; GiftTrap; Toy
Best price: $29.72
Pizza Box FootballOn the Line Game Company; Toy
Best price: $22.42
Similar Toys and Games
Sequence for KidsJax Ltd Inc; Jax; Release date: 2006-07-01; Toy
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
Uno Card GameMattel; Mattel; Toy
Best price: $0.99
Price in other shops:
Don't Break the IceHasbro; Hasbro; Toy
Best price: $9.49
Price in other shops:
Connect FourHasbro; Hasbro; Toy
Best price: $15.94
Price in other shops:
SorryHasbro Games; Hasbro; Toy
Best price: $14.76
Price in other shops:
Original MemoryHasbro; Hasbro; Toy
Best price: $7.45
Price in other shops:
eeBoo Playing Cards - Color Go FisheeBoo; eeBoo; Toy
Best price: $7.95
Trouble Board GameHasbro; Hasbro; Toy
Best price: $11.49
Price in other shops:
Chutes and LaddersHasbro; Hasbro; Windows; Toy
Price in other shops:
Hi Ho Cherry-OHasbro; Hasbro; Toy
Best price: $8.95
Price in other shops: