The One Thing You Never Noticed About the Candy Land Board
Candy Land is one of those board games that never gets old. You could play it with your grandchildren or your grandparents, and you would enjoy it just the same.
But there is one thing that you probably never noticed at the beginning of the road to the Candy Castle: the boy and girl are holding left hands.
But.. THEY'RE HOLDING EACH OTHER WITH THEIR LEFT HANDS! 😒😂 #Candyland pic.twitter.com/Qmqv9wylUx
- r i a (BruHeda) (@rialize) June 5, 2017
If you ask us, that just doesn't seem like the most efficient way to traverse through the Candy Cane Forest or climb Gumdrop Mountain.
As it happens, the blonde cartoon characters we all know and love now were not part of the first version of the game. The idea for Candy Land was created in the 1940s by Eleanor Abbot, who had polio. She wanted to create a game for kids suffering with the disease to enjoy, according to National Toy Hall of Fame.
did you know the game "CandyLand' was created by Eleanor Abbott while hospitalized from polio? #DisabilityStories pic.twitter.com/5J1W6Tld6t
- VSA arts RI (@vsartsri) July 15, 2015
Milton Bradley produced the game, and a few versions later, the characters evolved to be the overall-clad kids you recognize. In the 1980s version, they were holding hands normally, standing side-by-side. But then in the 1998 version, they took off holding left hands.
The board game has since been updated, with a 2010 version adding two more kids to the front of the trail.
! playable candyland board game pic.twitter.com/dZcC5pfj3r
- Scott rollins ,jr (@ScottRollinsJr1) January 25, 2017
Are you itching to play a round or two now? You can purchase the game on Amazon for just $12.80.
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