History TabletopGame / CandyLand

** In 2010, Gramma Nutt and her peanut brittle cottage were replaced by Gramma Gooey, resident of Chocolate Mountain.

* Rewrite:

* GoldenSnitch: Drawing a card marked with the name of a location in the Candy Land (usually, names like "Candy Cane Forest" and "Gum Drop Mountain") or its inhabitants, such as Princess Frostine or Gloppy the Molasses Monster. Especially if the card corresponding to one of these locations or characters were drawn early and said place/character was close to the end, drawing the card could virtually seal a win very early. See {{Whammy}} for the inverse situation.

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

%%* AnIcePerson: Queen Frostine, true to her name.

* AnthropomorphicFood: Most residents of Candyland, such as Gloppy the Molasses Monster, Mr. Mint, a peppermint stick lumberjack, and of course, the gingerbread men playing pieces.

%% * TheHighQueen: Queen Frostine...before the {{Remake}}.

%% * HotConsort: Queen Frostine, originally.

** Land in the Molasses Swamp and you lose at least one turn. Some rules had the player stuck there til a certain color was drawn.

* A ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' comic had Satchel using a "Candyland'' board in conjunction with an Ouja widget; and wondering why a ghost would pass through multiple dimensions to tell him "Gumdrop, Gumdrop, Lolly" when Bucky tells him he needs a Ouja board to make the widget work properly.

* AnIcePerson: Queen Frostine, true time her name.

** Also, dotted spaces called "cavities," which render the player "stuck" until drawing a card – or depending on the version, double card – with the same color as the dotted space they're currently on. The player lost one – or sometimes many – turns this way.

* PunnyName: Some of the names of the lands.

* {{Whammy}}:
** Even with this being a children's game, there were spaces the players tried to avoid. The rules for these spaces were as such:
*** '''Pre-2004''': Landing on any space marked with a black dot was a "cavity," requiring that player to remain in that space until drawing a card matching the dotted space they were currently on. Because of the game's luck-of-the-draw design and other factors (i.e., how the cards were shuffled and how many players were playing), an unlucky player could conceivably remain stuck for the rest of the game while the other players eventually completed the game. Some editions of the game required the player to draw a card marked with two of the same color to become "unstuck"; as these cards were rarer, the player could be stuck for quite awhile.
*** '''2004-later editions''': The "cavity" spaces were replaced with spaces marked with a licorice stick. The Whammy here is far less severe: The player simply loses his next turn.

%% * PunnyName: Some of the names of the lands.

** Land in the Molasses Swamp and you lose at least one turn.

%% * BigBad: Lord Licorice.

%% * SugarBowl:

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Princess Lolly. A revamped version only increased this by changing Queen Frostine to a princess as well.

* ForegoneConclusion: Once the deck of cards is shuffled and the player order chosen, the outcome of the game is already decided, as long as the players don't run out of cards and have to reshuffle the deck (which itself was set in stone, and once reshuffled, the trope takes effect again).

* It is a RunningGag in ''WebVideo/BoardJames'' that Bad Luck Bootsy wants to play Candy Land (instead of whatever game the episode is about). [[spoilers: He briefly gets his wish in the Season 3 finale, currently the series finale... in rather dark and bloody circumstances.]]

* 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 multiple 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.)

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-->''A sweet little game for sweet little folks.''

* {{Animesque}}: The 2013 box and board.

* BigBad: Lord Licorice.

* TheHighQueen: Queen Frostine...before the {{Remake}}.

* HotConsort: Queen Frostine, originally.

* MuckingInTheMud: Land in the Molasses Swamp and you lose at least one turn.

* PunnyName: Some of the names of the lands.

%%* SugarBowl:

* WinterRoyalLady: Queen/Princess Frostine.

* 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.

* TheBusCameBack: Jolly was omitted in the World of Sweets version, but public outcry caused him to return in the 2013 version.

* ForgoneConclusion: Once the deck of cards is shuffled and the player order chosen, the outcome of the game is already decided, as long as the players don't run out of cards and have to reshuffle the deck (which itself was set in stone, and once reshuffled, the trope takes effect again).

* {{Katy Perry}}'s music video ''California Gurls'' was heavily based with this. Only HotterAndSexier.

* 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 of a PragmaticAdaptation 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".

* 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.

* {{Uumlberwald}}: Lord Licorice's lives in a place that parodies it, the text even stating that his only friends are some "bitter chocolate bats".

* {{Überwald}}: Lord Licorice's lives in a place that parodies it, the text even stating that his only friends are some "bitter chocolate bats".