Candy Land

Candy Land is a simple racing board game aimed at young children, requiring no reading and no strategy: players advance along a winding, color-coded path purely by drawing cards and following the directions shown. It was designed in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott, a primary school teacher who created the game for children on a hospital ward in San Diego while she was recovering from polio. The Milton Bradley Company first published Candy Land in 1949, and it became the company's best-selling game, surpassing the earlier hit Uncle Wiggily. The game is intended for two to four players aged three and up and takes about thirty minutes to play. Hasbro, which acquired Milton Bradley in 1984, still produces the game today in multiple editions including puzzles, travel versions and electronic versions. Candy Land was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2005, and more than fifty million copies have been sold since its introduction, with roughly one million copies still sold every year.