Parents are always telling their kids that vegetables are good for them, but in the game “Candy Collections” candy is good and vegetables are bad!

The game was invented by 10-year-old Cybele McKenzie, who was trying to keep her brothers busy in the summer of 2020. The box says it is for 2-6 players, ages 5 and up. Anyone who is really little and thinks it’s okay to eat the dice should not play.

 In the game everyone has a little avatar that they move around the spaces on the board, with the number of spaces depending on a dice roll. The idea is to get more “candy” than everyone else. Some spaces have you pick from the “candy” pile, and some from the “Super Card” pile, which gives you instructions. Sometimes you get a “Veggie” from the candy pile, and veggies count as a minus. Everyone takes turns rolling the dice and moving their avatar around the board, following the instructions on each space they land. There are no big twists to this game, except some Super Cards make you give away candy, or your veggies, which is fun. When the candy pile is gone, the game is over and whoever has the highest total number of candies minus veggies wins the game.

What I like about Candy Collections is how winning the candy is sweet and exciting, like life, and the veggies are like the horrible things on the Earth that can take away from the candies but the candy always wins. What I don’t like about Candy Collections is how they draw the characters, especially their hands, but they did a good job. They’re just silly, and their heads are WAY bigger than their bodies. It was fun to play with my parents, my big sister, and my twin brother Max. It was something to play when we were bored or did now know what to do with ourselves. The game not only entertained us, it brought us together to play a new game. I feel Candy Collections is a good, easy, relaxing game for families—or just the kids!