Hasbro Candy Land Castle Game

• Hasbro Candy Land Castle Game is fun, colorful and educational
• Simple matching game involving shapes and colors
• Engaging educational game can be played alone or with others
• Comes with King Kandy Castle, brightly colored tokens, gingerbread kid gameboards
• Designed for ages 3 and up

Amazon.com Product Description:
.caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } Hasbro's Candy Land Castle Game is a fun and engaging game for your pre-schooler that encourages coordination and matching skills. This colorful game provides many learning opportunities for your youngest pre-schooler either by playing alone or with others. A Colorful and Fun Way to Learn Designed to encourage matching and coordination skills for young pre-schoolers, this delightful game involves small gingerbread kid gameboards with spaces for brightly-colored shapes, including green stars, yellow circles, purple ovals and red squares. A colorful game that provides many learning opportunities for your children. View larger. Gameboards are in the shape of gingerbread kids. View larger. These colorful shapes can be dropped into the top of King Kandy's Castle then retrieved by pulling on one of three spires (levers) that causes them to slide out of the chute located on the front of the Castle. And with no assembly required, this engaging game is ready to play right out of the box. A Magical World Your children will be totally enchanted by Candy Land Castle's magical atmosphere. With its bright and vibrant colors, the game is a treat for kids' eyes. King Kandy's Castle is especially cute, with a twisty and fanciful design that your kids will be sure to love. They'll feel like a part of Candy Land itself as they drop, pull, slide and match the colored tokens with the gingerbread people. About Candy Land Candy Land is one of Hasbro's most popular board game for young children. It is often the first board game played by children, since it requires only basic counting skills and features a fun and colorful candy theme. With such endearing characters as King Kandy and Princess Lolly, Candy Land has appealed to generations of young gamers. What's in the Box The game includes King Kandy's Castle, four gingerbread kid gameboards, 18 brightly-colored tokens and instructions.

Wonderful variation of a childhood game:
We bought this for my 2 yr old daughter and 2 yr old niece and they absolutely love it. It teaches them their shapes and colors and they love to win. I grew up playing candy land the board game and I think this is a cute way for my girls to grow up with candy land.

Way to simple for most children above 2 yrs. old!:
I thought this would have been a bit more involved, considering its for 3+ kids. NOT! It is the most simple of board games, just matching the 4 shapes and/or colors of the 4 playing pieces on each board game. It looks cute, but has no educational value for any child who has practice in basic colors and shapes. I'm a pre-school teacher, 3-5 yr. olds, so I have a pretty good idea of what children this age are capable of and this games offers them no challenge whatsoever! I think the age suggestion is due the slight possibility of a younger child swallowing the (large) playing pieces, IDK, but its totally off by at least a year or two for any normal 3 yr. old I know. Don't waste your money here.

LOVE IT!:
Love this...I have 2 and 3 year old boys and they love it. The older boy learns turn taking, waiting and shapes while the younger boy learns colors, simple shapes and loves pulling the candy cane. It stores nicely and easily. We've played it almost everyday since Christmas.

It's okay...:
This is a very durable, well-made game with the whimsical candyland castle and the oversized gingerbread persons. The game is played by placing the tokens into the chimney of the plastic candy castle and then using the candy cane lever to access the chute which spits out a token, one by one. Each player has a cardboard gingerbread man with four indented shapes (each shape is a specific color). When it is your turn, you pull the lever and, if you have that specific shape indentation on your gingerbread board, you keep it and it's the next player's turn. If you do not need that piece, you place it back into the chimney and the game moves on. This is a good, quick game for a child but my sons (age 5, 3, and 2) are quickly bored with it. The only thing they really enjoy doing is pulling the lever (so much that I'm afraid it'll break!). I really want to like this game but if the kids are bored, it's not really worth the purchase.

Don't buy from Amazon:
We purchased this on sale over the holidays, and when it arrived without the game boards Amazon refused to replace (after the price had increased again) only refund out deeply discounted price only after we shipped the toy back. Buy it somewhere else.