Customer Reviews

Candy Land Castle Game

5 star:		(76)
4 star:		(28)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I was looking for a good beginner board game so we could start family game night with our 3 year old and this game is great. It is very simple and does not take too long to play a round: pull the lever and one piece shoots out of the castle (fun) and if it matches your game board you keep it and if not you put it back in the castle top. Great first game, box says 3+ but 2 year olds could easily play this game with supervision. I think it is a bit overpriced, but there is not really a great selection of easy beginner games available. (We have the Lucky Ducks game - fun but noisy! And we have Hi Ho Cherry-O - fun but 40 tiny plastic cherries!)

My 4 year old daughter got this for Christmas. There are four gingerbread men cardboard cards (heavyweight cardboard too). Each gingerbread has a different combination of four shape indentations (One might have an oval, octagon, rectangle and star, while another might have a flower, star, triangle, and rectangle). The game comes with a bunch of plastic (thick - heavy duty) shapes. Basically, you put all the shapes in the chimney of the castle. In turn, each player pulls the candy cane lever. When you pull the lever, a shape comes out. If it matches a shape that your gingerbread needs, you put it on your gingerbread. If it doesn't, you put it back in the chimney. Either way, it's the next player's turn. The first player to get all the shapes they need wins. This is very good if your child is learning colors and shapes. My daughter already knows colors, shapes, etc., but she has a hard time losing. This is great for that too. The game goes fast and winning/losing is very cut and dry. We can play several times in a row. Some times she wins, some times she loses.

My son got this for his 3rd birthday and immediately fell in love with it. I have my two boys and two girls that I watch and they can sit down, all 4 of them and play together. They are 16 months to 3 years old and even the 16 month old loves to pull the handle and play with the shapes. This is the first game that I have found that actually keeps their attention and can be played in a peaceful manner. I couldn't believe it. The one thing I do not like is that there is no easy way to store it. It sits on our book case, but it would be nice if it came in a box that could be stored in a closet. The pieces fit in the chimney, and the gingerbread people fit in the back of the house but everything would spill out if you had to put it away. Other than that, and the relatively high price (from what I have been told) I think this is a great game and would be great on every toddler's wish list.

My 3 year old twins got this for their birthday. They really like shooting out the pieces and holding the pieces, they have a nice feel. The game itself is much too easy for them, they know these shapes well. I'm afraid the pieces will be be lost or they will quickly outgrow this game. It definitely fits their attention span though, one game lasts about 5 minutes the speed they play it at.

I want to be honest with other moms out there. This game is cute, and I like how it stores all the pieces inside of itself...so you can get rid of the box. But I purchased this for my daughters 3rd birthday, and it is NOT challenging for her at all. She likes it, but she already know all of her colors and shapes, so I was a little disappointed that it wasn't teaching her more. I would put the age on this toy for younger children.....I wish I had gotten it sooner. However, it is good for teaching children how to play a basic game, like taking turns, and sportsmanship.

I bought this for my daughter when she was 23 months old. She was in the process of learning her colors and shapes and I thought this game would help. She absolutely loved the game itself. Pulling the little lever to make the pieces shoot out was so much fun for her. At 23 months, she was too young to really play the game as it was intended but we used it as a learning tool and I would help her match the pieced to the boards and have her say the shapes and colors.
As she has gotten older I've started to teach her how to actually play the game according to the rules and it has really helped to teach her how to 'take turns'.

The castle itself is very durable. When I first opened the box I took one look at the lever and thought that it would be broken in no time. But it has withstood a lot of pummeling from my daughter and her young
cousins.

As for STORAGE: All the shape pieces fit into the castle and there is a place in the back of the castle for the gingerbread men boards to sit in. It stores very well this way.
Another cool feature is that the instructions are printed on the back of the gingerbread men so you can't lose them or have to keep up with an instruction sheet.

The only thing I didn't like about the game is that one of the shapes is kind of a 'club' shape that is difficult to describe to a toddler. I wish that Hasbro had just stuck to standard shapes for the game pieces.

Overall, I am really happy with this purchase and would definitely reccomend it for the toddler/pre-school crowd

My daughters (3 and 6) played this for hours on Christmas day, forsaking their singing Dora doll, Barbie accessories, Wii games and Cartoon Network for this simple yet engaging little game. Two days later and they still want to play whenever they have a spare 5 minutes. No reading required, no skill except matching shapes to cards, and games are fast-paced and brief, unlike the Candy Land board game which takes too long and has all those cards to clean up. I love how it has no batteries, no noise and the whole thing stores away compactly. A+!

My 3 yr old is too young to understand most board games so I thought we'd give this one a try. It's great! It comes with 4 boards (gingerbread men) that each have 4 different shapes on them. (Each one is different, like BINGO boards.) You put the little plastic shapes inside the castle turret and each player gets a chance to pull the candy cane lever to release a shape from the castle. If it fits on your board, you use it to fill in one spot on your board. Whoever gets their spots filled up first wins.

It's fun for the kids and adults too as well as a great learning tool that teaches shapes and colors that is very understandable for littler ones. We love it!

The plastic pieces seem very durable but I hope we don't lose them. There is no place to store them other than the castle turret. But if the castle gets tipped over, they go flying. That's one thing I think could have been better designed.

I got this for my daughter's 3rd birthday. It is a game she can easily play. She does know her colors and shapes but more than anything this helps her learn how to share and how to take turns. This keeps her attention very well and she wants to play it over and over. She loves choosing which gingerbread man she is going to be. A huge bonus for me is that it makes no noise so you can actually have a conversation while playing. She caught onto the game right away, it didn't take long at all for her to figure out how you play. This is also a very sturdy game, not flimsy and easy to break! This is a keeper!!!

My Daughter is two and a half..and wanted the other candy land so bad...her cousins have it but she is way to young to 'get it' This version is so simple to understand and really teaches her about sharing...taking turns...shapes...and colors...she had TONs of fun! I have to admit..even i had a good time watching her... very easy! -CR