These days Grant can’t get enough of the game and its quick-change pace, Prather says. When Anna was younger, she’d beg her mom to read the Candy Land back story located inside the box. Today she still owns that very same copy, which she shares with her own kids, Anna, 8, and Grant, 4. As a young girl, she remembers breaking out a game of Candy Land each time her best friend would sleep over. Mary Prather, 37, of Peachtree City, has been making that journey most of her life. The first player to reach King Kandy’s Candy Castle wins. If the card has two red squares, they get to move to the second red space. If a gamer draws a red card, for instance, the player moves their gingerbread man playing token to the nearest red space. The face of each card contains a colored square, some cards contain two colored squares. Players take turns choosing from a stack of cards. Mint, a clownish character in a white and red striped outfit, who serves as the game’s mascot. There’s Gloppy, the smiley glob of fudge residing in Chocolate Swamp, and a host of other characters like Princess Frostine and Mr. Vibrant artwork featuring saccharine-drenched regions of Candy Land and its cartoonish denizens brighten up the board. The game board opens up to reveal a path of different colored squares. “There’s something about how that game is played,” he says, “kids catch on to it very quickly.” Now that daughter, Kaia, 7, has the Candy Land bug, Klenberg’s record hasn’t gotten any better. When his son, Eli, 10, was younger, Klenberg often found himself on the losing end of a round of Candy Land.