Candyland riots biography
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Night one of @svddendeath was a RIOT Who is ready for night two?!?It was 1948, and Eleanor Abbott was bored. The retired schoolteacher was stuck in a San Diego hospital surrounded by young children who, like her, were hobbled by polio. The kids were lonely and sad, and Abbott, with nothing else to do, decided that a cheerful board game could be the perfect antidote.
So she supposedly grabbed a piece of butcher paper and started sketching plans.
The end result was perfect for young children. No counting.
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No reading. Players simply needed to grasp colors and follow instructions on the cards to travel around the board, stopping at various delicious-sounding locations along the way. She shared it with the children in the polio ward, and they loved it.
One year later, Milton Bradley bought the game—and it became a surprise hit: Candy Land.
(Image credit: Jeanne W. Houghton/Polio Today)
While Milton Bradley kept that origin story under wraps for decades, the game’s connection to the disease didn’t stop there.
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