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Sugar Bowl: Literally and figuratively.

Stock 'Yuck!': The likely reason the bad guy is made of licorice is because it tends to fit this trope.

Pimped-Out Dress: In any version of the game, Frostine and Lolly have very fancy food-based dresses.

Parent Service: Some later editions of the game give Lolly and Frostine sexier designs (usually aging the former up to avoid Unfortunate Implications, as sheВ’s a small child in earlier editions.) It didnВ’t exactly work as intended parents noticed it, and didnВ’t like it much.

The player lost one В– or sometimes many В– turns this way.

Dotted spaces called 'cavities,' which render the player 'stuck' until drawing a card В– or depending on the version, double card В– with the same color as the dotted space they're currently on.

Some rules had the player stuck there til a certain color was drawn.

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

This game is not for the strategic crowd, folks!

Luck-Based Mission: Probably to assure the young ones aren't disadvantaged: The game's outcome is determined by the luck of the draw and nothing else.

Although technically just called Candy Land, it had the Tag Line 'A Child's First Game Comes to Life'.

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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.

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.

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Licensed Game: Two of them, both for Windows and Macintosh computers.Level Ate: The title of the game isn't figurative.

House Rules: 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 ( 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.

Gratuitous Princess: In addition to Princess Lolly, a revamped version only increased this by changing Queen Frostine to a princess as well.

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.

Golden Snitch: 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.

World of Sweets has it as one of the locales located along the path.

Gingerbread House: The last space in the versions released before the 1980s.

There is literally nothing any player can do to affect the outcome of the game.

Foregone Conclusion: 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).

Five-Token Band: Updates made during the 2000s gave the Caucasian Candy Land Kids some African-American and Asian-American friends.

Excuse Plot: Even as a child, did the backstory about King Kandy's disappearance matter when you were actually playing the game? No.

You probably can't tell by looking at all the bright colors and smiling denizens on the board.

Crapsaccharine World: Candy Land apparently lost some of its beauty and happiness following the King's disappearance.

Sometimes Hasbro removes entire places from the board.

Mint and possibly also Grandma Nutt, but replaced the Candy Land Kids with anthropomorphic sweets. Mint, Jolly, and Grandma Nutt do not appear in the World of Sweets version.

Earlier versions had a satyr, Plumpy, rather than Mama Gingertree.

The Chosen One: The enclosed backstory says King Kandy's daughter, Princess Lolly, picked which kids would go find him.

Mint was omitted in the World of Sweets version, but public outcry caused him to return in the 2013 version.

Big Eater: Plumpy, and unfortunately, he tends to eat more sugar plums than he harvests.

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