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Monday, March 22, 2021

The Popular Game That Allowed Children To Play During Another Epidemic

Introduced in 1949, and placed in the National Toy Hall Of Fame, one colorful and sweet board game is still as popular with children as it was over seventy years ago. Candy Land was invented by a highly creative schoolteacher named Eleanor Abbott in a polio ward during the polio epidemic of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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