History TabletopGame / CandyLand

* LicensedGame: Two of them, both for Windows and Macintosh computers. First there was ''Candy Land Adventure'' which came out in 1996, and was more or less an edutainment minigame collection and never featured the actual board game, though it did have a running plot regarding Lord Licorice having kidnapped King Candy. Then there was the 1998 adaptation, which was more faithful since it actually ''had'' the board game it was based off of, plus a few minigames of its own. Although technically just called ''Candy Land'', it had the TagLine "A Child's First Game Comes to Life".

* RollAndMove: Movement is determined entirely by drawing a card from a deck (in earlier versions of the game) or spinning a spinner (as of 2013). You go to the next space of the indicated colour (the deck also had some cards that sent you to a fixed space on the board). Most spaces have no effect, though there are a few "lose a turn" ones, and some versions of the game have spaces that make you skip ahead a bit. Whoever finishes the linear racing track first wins. As a result, the game is simple and [[LuckBasedMission fully luck-based]]. This is intentional, as it's designed so that even very young children can play it.

* HouseRules: To keep your sanity as an adult playing with kids, these are often used: Draw a hand of three to five cards (instead of just a single card), choose which color to play ([[ScrewDestiny instead of accepting fate]]), play multiple cards at a time if they're all the same color and use special cards to send your opponents backward.

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!!This board game appears in the following shows:
* Cory from ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' laments in one episode that he spent his Saturday night playing Candy Land with his sister, "and lost", as if losing a game of pure chance is more pathetic than winning it.
* ''Series/NurseJackie'' has the main character playing the game with little girls and a boy in "Heading North".
* Played by Larry and Alfred in the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode "Larry-Boy and the Fib From Outer Space". Larry is stuck in the Molasses Swamp for at least 38 turns as Alfred is able to immediately advance all the way to Princess Lolly. (Amusingly, this almost certainly means Larry was originally ''ahead'' of Alfred.)
* ''Series/That70sShow'' has Eric Forman stashing away money in a Candy Land box. It is later revealed that the gang hides a [[MarijuanaIsLSD different kind of stash]] in the same box.
* Shown in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''Parts: The Clonus Horror''.
* The webcomic ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' has ''Candy-Land Adventures'' appear in [[http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1453.php #1453]] and [[http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1460.php #1460]]. It transforms this game into an RPG like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', complete with rolling dice, fighting monsters, and arguing about the rules. Roles include Peppermint Paladin and Rogue of Red Hots.
* ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'' pointed out that the game's Luck-Based Mission characteristics make it as hard to deliberately ''lose'' (i.e., to let a small child win) as it is to aspire to win yourself.
* ''Series/XPlay'' reviewed the 2000 version of the game once...during a game drought.
* Music/KatyPerry's music video "California Gurls" was heavily based with this. Only HotterAndSexier.
* A ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' comic had Satchel using a "Candyland'' board in conjunction with a Ouija widget; and wondering why a ghost would pass through multiple dimensions to tell him "Gumdrop, Gumdrop, Lolly" when Bucky tells him he needs a Ouija board to make the widget work properly.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' parody of ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'', Death challenges the Warner siblings to a game of chess, but they don't know how to play it, so he settles for checkers instead. Dot eagerly asks if he has Uncle Wiggily or Candy Land, but being TheGrimReaper, he doesn't.
* It is a RunningGag in ''WebVideo/BoardJames'' that Bad Luck Bootsy wants to play Candy Land (instead of whatever game the episode is about). [[spoiler: He briefly gets his wish in the Season 3 finale, currently the series finale... in rather dark and bloody circumstances.]]

** Stunning of all is the 2021 version where Lord Licorice is removed leaving the game for the first time since before it's 80's reboot with NoAntagonist. As a result, Licorice Castle/Woods/Lagoon/ was removed as well, but strangely enough the Licorice spaces were kept

* TheHighQueen: Queen Frostine...before the {{Remake}} changed heer into a princess.

* HotConsort: Queen Frostine, originally, before she was changed into King Kandy's daughter instead of his wife.

There was an AnimatedAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/CandyLandTheGreatLollipopAdventure'', that is considerably more criticized for [[SweetnessAversion being too sweet]].

There was an AnimatedAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/CandyLandTheGreatLollipopAdventure'', that is considerably more criticized for [[TastesLikeDiabetes being too sweet]].

* RaceLift: In the 2021 version, Princess Frostine is black and Princess Lolly is East Asian (King Kandy is still white, though), while Jolly is changed [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange from a nonhuman creature]] into a black man.

** Queen Frostine also became Princess Frostine in 2002 (see below).

* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: The character of Frostine was originally "Queen Frostine," wife of King Kandy and mother of Princess Lolly. From 2002 onward, she's been retitled "Princess Frostine," and is King Kandy's daughter and Princess Lolly's older sister.

* HotConsort: Queen Frostine, originally, before she was changed into a King Kandy's daughter instead of his wife.

* RaceLift: In the 2021 version, Princess Frostine and Gramma Gooey are black and Princess Lolly is East Asian, while Jolly is changed [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange from a nonhuman creature]] into a black man.

** In 2010, Gramma Nutt and her peanut brittle cottage were replaced by Gramma Gooey, resident of Chocolate Mountain. She was brought back in 2013, however, but then replaced again by Gramma Gooey in the 2021 version.

* The 2021 version gives Jolly an AdaptationalSpeciesChange from a strange gumdrop creature into a human gentleman in a [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]-like costume.

** The 2013 version brought back Mr. Mint and possibly also Grandma Nutt, but replaced the Candy Land Kids with anthropomorphic sweets.

** In 2002, Molasses Swamp was changed to Chocolate Swamp, and later replaced by Chocolate Mountain, with Gloppy changed from a living glob of molasses to a living glob of chocolate. This is likely because molasses candy is less popular among modern children than it was in the past.

** In 2010, Gramma Nutt and her peanut brittle cottage were replaced by Gramma Gooey, resident of Chocolate Mountain. She was brought back in 2013, however.