Hi Dark, Candy Land is a popular American board game for children. The board is essentially several colored squares such as blue, red, yellow, and green with some special places such as the Candy Cane Forest, sticky patches, Gingerbread Man, and so on. Each player can pick out a token of a boy or girl, and the object of the game is to be the first to get your token to the Candy Castle on the other side of the board. The game is played by drawing a color card from the deck and moving the number of spaces shown on the card. If you pick up a card with two yellow squares on it you move two yellow squares on the board. If you pick up one of the special cards like the Candy Cane Forest you either need to move forward to or back to the Candy Cane Forest on the board. If you land on a sticky patch you lose a turn. Make sense?
Regarding the name I suppose someone could in theory rename it Sugar Land, Sweet Land, or something like that but having grown up with the game since childhood I'd find such names bazaar to say the least. Then again, do you even have candy canes gingerbread cookies, sour patches, and things like that in the first place? Cheers! On 9/6/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > If you don't mind me asking, what is candy land? > > Like the trouble game you mention, I suspect that is one we don't have over > > here, indeed sinse in Britain the word "candy" isn't half as widely used and > > usually only refers to very specific types of sweets, a game named candy > land would probably need a name change to be understood anyway which is also > > likely why I haven't heard of it. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > ----- --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
