Reveal Entertainment Candyman Board Game | 
| Brand: Reveal Entertainment, Inc.
Category: Toy
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $20.69
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Seller: MyAtomic
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 129,326
Age: 8 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10 x 10 x 3.2
MPN: IMPSND0030
Model: CYM657
UPC: 894769000049
EAN: 0894769000049
ASIN: B000AM2LOQ
Availability: Usually ships in 4-5 business days
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| Features:
| • | A truly twisted board game parody | | • | For 2-6 mean-spirited players | | • | One gingerbread man will survive | | • | Great party game | | • | Parody of parodies |
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Product Description
Yours is an enchanted land made entirely of candy and confections, but underneath that sugar-frosted veneer lies the disturbing truth. The king has betrayed you all. The sweet, candy citizens throughout the land are being shipped from the castle to voracious children all over the world. But not you. You're not going out like that. Time to get your candy buttons out of Dodge. So, it's every gingerbread man for himself in a mad dash to the border. And if you have to snap a few ginger limbs to save yourself, well, that's the way the cookie crumbles! Players 2-6. Ages: 12 & up. Playing time 30 minutes.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fun for Grown-up Kids March 26, 2006
Richard Staats (McLean, VA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked up a copy at Origins 2005, and, after playing it with my gaming group back in DC, I ended up buying four more copies to give to my friends as gifts. The game mechanics are simple enough to learn in ten minutes or so. The mechanics do parallel the Candyland game that this title spoofs, but there is some degree of choice involved. There is enough luck to keep it interesting, and the premise is silly enough for no one to get caught taking the game too seriously. All that said, this game is a lot more fun for people returning to Candyland after having been gone for a while. I did not have much luck with the 10-15 year old crowd, but the 16+ crowd loved it.
Buy it today!
Candyland With Drive-By Hits September 9, 2007
Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States)
This is a wacky game that puts a new spin on the old classic Candyland. The board looks similar although the happy characters have been replaced with new characters. the colored spaced are now different candies. But the real difference is in the way the game plays. In the original, as soon at the game starts the winner is predestined but this is now less the case. Each player is a gingerbread man (like in the original) but now they have a character sheet to record how the cookie crumbles. And crumbles it does.
Players take turns drawing a movement. The player proceeds to the next space with the same type of candy. If a player passes another player, they can draw a card and do damage to the player they pass. Each of the six types of candy corresponds to a different part of the body (arms, legs, head, torso) and the damage is marked off. When a part has six points of damage that part of the character sheet is torn off (my son once won a game as a disembodied head). There are also special cards that give your character abilities (i.e. a licorice whip that can strike a character within three spaces). But winning is not easy. Because the same deck of cards is used for movement and damage it gets shuffled a lot. That means the special spaces keep coming up and drawing you away from the finish line.
This game is less twisted than it sound and is actually fun for the whole family. My kids who do not like violent games get a real kick out of this one (I guess its different when it is a cookie that is crumbling and not a person or animal). The reshuffling of the deck also makes the game take a little longer than a typical game of Candyland. So if you thought Candyland was too tame and could use a rewrite then you should check this one out.
I liked it December 11, 2005
Julia Papke (Columbus, OH)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game was a good time. It's definitely an adult game, and best played in a spirit of mean fun. Cries of "Take one to the peppermint, Bitey!" and "Oh, no- not my tasty little legs!" accompany gameplay. It's a pretty amusing parody of Candyland, a game which (while we may remember it fondly from our youths) sucked. The basic game play is similar to the original, but the addition of "treat" cards (which give you special powers) and the ability to attack other players change it from a game entirely based on chance to a game with an element of strategy.
Gameplay is okay, though not inspired. This is a game you play for the fun of the situation, not for the brilliance of the game play.
This game is a total crack up January 5, 2009
Judy K. Schuster (Brecksville, Ohio USA)
I have heard all too often from my 12 and 14 yr. olds that board games are boring. There is so much other stuff board games "compete" with these days ... Ipods, video games, computer, cable tv, nintendo ds, etc.....
This game however was a big hit with both kids, and myself for that matter. The 12 year old boys crack up throughout the game as they inflict damage on eachothers' gingerbread men. Once a limb or other body part of a players' gingerbread man has been destroyed, ripping that appendage/part off their gingerbread man score sheet adds a funny dimension to the loss itself. Great game. I had to read over the instructions multiple times and play a few times before we fine tuned the play of the game.
 Abby December 9, 2005
Abby M. Mroczenski (Wisconsin)
This game is more fun for adults than children. It's a little like Candyland, but more complicated and vindictive. You attack other players on your way to the goal while traveling a candy path.
You can play with real cookies, and bite off the opponent's limbs if they have sustained heavy damage.
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