Eleanor Abbott

Eleanor R. Abbott (September 9, 1910 - December 1, 1988) was a game designer and teacher who in the 1940s invented the popular game Candy Land. As a suffer from polio she designed the game while in a hospital in San Diego as a way for children to pass the time while recuperating.

Note: This is a different person than Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (September 22, 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts - 1958 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire), a nationally recognized American author and frequent contributor to The Ladies' Home Journal also known as Mrs. Fordyce Coburn; or Elenore Plaisted Abbott (1875 - 1935), a popular American book and magazine artist who was taught by Howard Pyle.

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Candy Land [1949]
2-4 pemain 30 menit 3+

A child can begin by just recognizing basic colors. Each player advances along the rainbow path through the peppermint stick forest, the gingerbread plum tree and the gumdrop mountain. The players use the plastic gingerbread man as the playing pieces...

Eleanor Abbott

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Candy Land [1949] 2-4 pemain 30 menit 3+

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